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  • Saint Helena

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 26 19:08:45 2023
    Saint Helena - It is a remote volcanic tropical island 1,950 km (1,210
    mi) west of the coast of south-western Africa, and 4,000 km (2,500 mi)
    east of Rio de Janeiro in South America.
    ...
    ...
    Television was finally introduced in 1995
    ...
    ...
    Serving a population of more than 4,000...St Helena had a 10/3.6
    Mbit/s Internet link via Intelsat 707 (deactivated January 2011)
    ...
    ...
    By September 2014, ADSL broadband service...up to 1,536 kbit/s
    downstream and 512 kbit/s upstream [Note-Very expensive]
    ...
    Footnote - March 23, 2023 Work to begin soon on Saint Helena's fiber
    optic network project, says gov't <https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/work-to-begin-soon-on-saint-helenas-fiber-optic-network-project-says-govt/>
    ...
    ...
    Another 2019 report indicated that smartphones had become common,
    "with the 'Saint Memes' Facebook page and other social media exporting
    their sharp sense of humour". But, as the report concludes, the island
    "remains a place with an anchor in the past, where ... there are
    single-digit car licence plates and motorists on the hairpin roads
    unfailingly wave at each other".

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Helena

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  • From Michael Trew@21:1/5 to JAB on Mon Aug 28 16:59:46 2023
    On 8/26/2023 8:08 PM, JAB wrote:
    ...
    But, as the report concludes, the island
    "remains a place with an anchor in the past, where ... there are
    single-digit car licence plates and motorists on the hairpin roads unfailingly wave at each other".

    Sounds like my kind of place.

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to Michael Trew on Mon Aug 28 19:37:43 2023
    On Mon, 28 Aug 2023 16:59:46 -0400
    Michael Trew <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 8/26/2023 8:08 PM, JAB wrote:
    ...
    But, as the report concludes, the island
    "remains a place with an anchor in the past, where ... there are single-digit car licence plates and motorists on the hairpin roads unfailingly wave at each other".

    Sounds like my kind of place.

    Mine too, see you there! Hopefully phone and internet are
    prohibitively expensive and we go back to the equivalent of dial-up on
    rotating IP addresses.

    Man am I feeling curmudgeonly today.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Aug 28 18:15:55 2023
    On Mon, 28 Aug 2023 16:59:46 -0400, Michael Trew
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    But, as the report concludes, the island
    "remains a place with an anchor in the past, where ... there are
    single-digit car licence plates and motorists on the hairpin roads
    unfailingly wave at each other".

    Sounds like my kind of place.

    Not uncommon in rural cities...wave at each other.

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  • From Michael Trew@21:1/5 to Retrograde on Fri Sep 1 10:58:53 2023
    On 8/28/2023 7:37 PM, Retrograde wrote:
    On Mon, 28 Aug 2023 16:59:46 -0400
    Michael Trew<[email protected]> wrote:

    On 8/26/2023 8:08 PM, JAB wrote:
    ...
    But, as the report concludes, the island
    "remains a place with an anchor in the past, where ... there are
    single-digit car licence plates and motorists on the hairpin roads
    unfailingly wave at each other".

    Sounds like my kind of place.

    Mine too, see you there! Hopefully phone and internet are
    prohibitively expensive and we go back to the equivalent of dial-up on rotating IP addresses.

    Man am I feeling curmudgeonly today.

    I feel you. I like the concept of manually connecting the computer to
    the internet, rather than an always-on connection. I could plug my ADSL
    router right into the PC Ethernet port, then set up a PPPoE to dial at
    my choosing, but then I can't use the Roku connected to the TV.

    There's a certain romanticism of the internet of the 90's, before
    everything was commercialized. I was a child then, and have vague
    memories of it, but it would be fun to go back and live that again.
    Then again, since everyone tells me that I'm 28 going on 82, if I were
    an adult in the 90's, I highly doubt that I'd buy into the personal
    computer "fad".

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Sep 1 11:17:43 2023
    On Fri, 01 Sep 2023 10:58:53 -0400, Michael Trew
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    There's a certain romanticism of the internet of the 90's,
    ....but it would be fun to go back and live that again.

    With earlier days, there was per minute charges on BBSs, or on AOL,
    Delphi, etc. If storage was allowed, very expensive. Text & chat
    mostly until WWW hit mainstream. Dialup was overloaded, etc.


    Tom Evslin
    He conceived, launched, and ran AT&T's first ISP, AT&T WorldNet
    Service. WorldNet popularized all-you-can-eat flatrate monthly pricing
    for Internet access and forced the rest of the industry, including AOL
    and MSN, to follow suit. Tom has been blamed and praised for this ever
    since. He is unrepentant.

    http://blog.tomevslin.com/about.html

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