<div dir="ltr">Also the anticipation of a 640x480 photo to download! Remember the progressive JPEGs that would load at low res and then fill in as more data came down the line?</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 8:12 AM Boris Borisov via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Listening to dial-up tone of negotiating modems was full of anticipation. Something was about to happen a new connection is about to get born.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Nowadays is just there :(</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 1:38 AM DJ-Pfulio via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Every Govt Fax machine does. It is the cheapest, easiest, way that I<br>
know to request an absentee ballot. FAX! Sure, it don't get printed<br>
on the other side and ends up in their email, but I didn't have to deal<br>
with stamps or the lag time of mailing.<br>
<br>
One of my sisters in SD was using free dialup until 2 yrs ago. She<br>
works at a University, so didn't see any need to have a connection at<br>
home. They have one cell phone and share it. It is almost always off. ;)<br>
<br>
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On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 17:01:40 -0400<br>
Scott Plante via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> Are there any ISPs that take dialup anymore? ;-)<br>
> <br>
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 3:49 PM Boris Borisov via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> > I just bought the ESP8266 kit from Microcenter. Besides using it as<br>
> > IoT device I've heard that you can use it to emulate the dial-up<br>
> > modem so you can connect old machine to the internet. Anyone done<br>
> > it ?<br>
> ><br>
> > Perhaps I'm guilty for trying to avoid RTFM part :)<br>
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