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    From Rob Mccart@1:2320/107 to MIKE POWELL on Tue Mar 24 08:01:22 2026
    'We should regard it as a privilege to be stepping stones to higher things':
    >How Arthur C Clarke predicted the rise of AGI and the looming demise of
    >humanity back in 1964

    I've mentioned before, he also came up with the idea of satellite
    communication back before there were satellites, and has been given
    credit for that as they call the band of satellites around the world
    at the equator that give us that service The Clarke Belt..

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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to Rob Mccart on Tue Mar 24 07:47:42 2026
    Rob Mccart wrote to MIKE POWELL <=-

    I've mentioned before, he also came up with the idea of satellite communication back before there were satellites, and has been given
    credit for that as they call the band of satellites around the world
    at the equator that give us that service The Clarke Belt..

    He later moved to Sri Lanka and used those satellites to transmit
    manuscripts to his publisher.

    We live in an awesome world, bandwidth-wise. I've got a 600/40 cable
    circuit and am thinking of upgrading to a symmetric gig circuit. What
    would this world do if we had to go back to DSL speeds - or dialup?


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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/107 to ROB MCCART on Tue Mar 24 11:24:37 2026
    'We should regard it as a privilege to be stepping stones to higher things'
    >How Arthur C Clarke predicted the rise of AGI and the looming demise of
    >humanity back in 1964

    I've mentioned before, he also came up with the idea of satellite communication back before there were satellites, and has been given
    credit for that as they call the band of satellites around the world
    at the equator that give us that service The Clarke Belt..

    I knew someone had brought him up before and thought it was probably you. ;)

    Mike


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  • From Max Stubbs@1:103/705 to Kurt Weiske on Wed Mar 25 07:12:22 2026
    Re: Re: How Arthur C Clark predic
    By: Kurt Weiske to Rob Mccart on Tue Mar 24 2026 07:47 am

    We live in an awesome world,
    bandwidth-wise. I've got a 600/40 ca
    circuit and am thinking of upgrading
    a symmetric gig circuit. What
    would this world do if we had to go
    back to DSL speeds - or dialup?
    Return to 1mhz computing?


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  • From Rob Mccart@1:2320/107 to KURT WEISKE on Thu Mar 26 06:40:15 2026
    We live in an awesome world, bandwidth-wise. I've got a 600/40 cable
    >circuit and am thinking of upgrading to a symmetric gig circuit. What
    >would this world do if we had to go back to DSL speeds - or dialup?

    I was on dialup much later than most since there was nothing else
    available here. Forget Fiber, our ancient Bell Boxes could only
    handle dialup at half speed (26k) because they were (and still are)
    set up for Party Line use.

    Fortunately in recent years they have started putting only 2
    customers on a line, rather than 4. That still only gives us
    half speed, but there's now no picking up the phone to hear
    people talking and having to wait for them to clear the line.

    My internet now comes at 4G via my Cell Phone these days and
    the only other option is Satellite Dish..

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  • From Rob Mccart@1:2320/107 to MIKE POWELL on Thu Mar 26 06:40:15 2026
    >How Arthur C Clarke predicted the rise of AGI and the looming demise of
    >humanity back in 1964

    I've mentioned before, he also came up with the idea of satellite
    >> communication back before there were satellites, and has been given
    >> credit for that as they call the band of satellites around the world
    >> at the equator that give us that service The Clarke Belt..

    I knew someone had brought him up before and thought it was probably you. ;)

    I knew him more from the Sci-Fi books he wrote, but this is the
    advantage of real scientists writing Science Fiction. You often
    learn a lot of real science while being entertained.

    90% Science and 10% Fiction... B)
    There are a lot of authors like that out there..

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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to Max Stubbs on Sat Mar 28 12:25:08 2026
    Max Stubbs wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

    Return to 1mhz computing?

    Text-only is the way to go. I remember polling email over dialup/POP,
    and it worked just fine. Early web pages, also fine. Once companies got
    online, downloading an unoptimized gif file with an image map took a
    while.



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  • From Max Stubbs@1:103/705 to Mike Powell on Mon Mar 30 07:57:35 2026
    Re: Re: How Arthur C Clark pr
    By: Mike Powell to KURT WEISKE on Sun Mar 29 2026 10:18 am

    As an aside, if you now try to use a
    web browser like links to access
    google.com, instead of getting a tex
    version you get an error message
    about needing to update your browser

    This is with using the gui version o
    links2 on an up-to-date debian box.

    duckduckgo.com still works just fine

    There could be some text web browser
    that have found a way around that,
    but it shows how some companies try
    discourage this.

    Fun fact: You can still successfully
    log into and use SomethingAwful.com on
    either version of links, and in both
    text and graphical mode.


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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/107 to KURT WEISKE on Mon Mar 30 14:30:44 2026
    As an aside, if you now try to use a web browser like links to access google.com, instead of getting a text version you get an error message about needing to update your browser.

    There was a passthrough proxy meant for older GUI browsers - that might
    work for text browsing as well?

    Might well do so. Could fix the issue on my end but doesn't fix why they are doing it. ;)

    Mike


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