Jacob Broussard <shadowedstranger@gmail.com> wrote:

Wow... Reading this thread I feel like some sort of time traveler, what with my cable internet, multicore processor, and smartphone.

Just in case it isn't clear, I use all of my ancient computing and network technology by a *very* deliberate choice. Just take the case of the hardware gadget I've designed and built myself that goes from SDSL/ATM to V.35-nee-EIA-530: I've only built and deployed it in the summer of this year, although I had wanted one since late 2004 and had been developing it as a hobby open source hardware project since 2006. MS