<html><head></head><body>I ran dual lines (Mindspring - had a 4 digit account number) for big downloads. Walnut Creek CD subscription helped.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On August 22, 2020 4:26:34 AM EDT, Raylynn Knight via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">1997 was the year I started paying for an ISDN line.<br><br>Ray<br><br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">On Aug 21, 2020, at 7:19 PM, Sean Kilpatrick via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<br><br>Given the bandwidth available in 1997, I suspect that was (for its day) a fairly complex page -- slow to load.<br>All I had access to in 1997 was dialup!<br><br>Sean<br><br>On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 8:00 PM Boris Borisov via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<br>I was looking for old software on archive.org. I've got back to 1997 for packardbell.com<br><br>Look the simple web page from back then :)<br><br><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19970128090010/http://www.packardbell.com/">https://web.archive.org/web/19970128090010/http://www.packardbell.com/</a><br><br>I shed a tear.<hr>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><hr>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br></blockquote><hr>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br></pre></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>"no government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can be anything but an oligarchy managed in the interests of the few.” - John Dewey</body></html>