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...that seemed to have been the norm over the past four years. As Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 mentioned in the Class of 2007 yearbook, everything here, especially from an undergraduate’s perspective, is experienced at a “high baud rate...
Decades before AOL came on the scene, I had an e-mail account (I still use virtually the same e-mail address I had in 1975), and in 1980 I wired my home terminal to the Internet (at 300 baud) by shoving my phone receiver into something that looked like twin toilet plungers. I hooked up full-motion desktop videoconferencing and video mail in 1988 and, four years later, started using a pen-based electronic whiteboard and drafting table...
...remembers it vividly. "Logging on at 300 baud in 1982, when it cost $6-24 an hour." He laughs at our reaction. "Yeah, my parents were not happy with their credit card bill...
...staple of sexual interaction. To those who practice it, 'netsex builds on this erotic principle by typing dirty. To those who have not tried it, it can seem alien, even perverse. As "Worm," a Leverett senior puts it, "Who wants to spank off at the rate of 9600 baud?" Nevertheless, it goes on all day, every day, in every forum which allows people to talk to each other electronically...
Hacking was popularized in the movie "War Games." It took a young high school student nothing more tan a 300-baud modem and a computer less powerful than some calculators to bring the would to the brink of nuclear war. Prior to this he had changed his grades form borderline passing to honor roll. This was an exploit everyone could relate...