Re: history question: access to the internet in Japan
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<8a8fdc14-4a2a-48ff-9904-8f75f72213b3@k13g2000hse.googlegroups.com>, Medgya
<medgyadal@yahoo.com> wrote:
>the urban areas. Out here in inakaville, we didn't get ADSL access
>until about three years ago. There are still a lot of ISDN routers
>around... they make nice hubs.
yeah, used to seem em going on yahoo auctions all the time. Wondered who the
hell was buying them. At the time 1M ADSL routers were dirt cheap I tried
shipping one back to Australia (where they were an arm and a leg) but failed
to get it to sync.
>carriers were a lot more influential. All that no-pan shabu-shabu, you
>know...
well, I think there was only the myth of it by 2000 (when I started there).
ahh ... those were the daze
See Ya
(when bandwidth gets better ;-)
Chris Eastwood
Photographer, Programmer Motorcyclist and dingbat
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