Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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Remember when it was a big deal if you chose .zip, .rar, or 7z, etc? Now we all have so much bandwidth it doesn't matter. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts

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[–] IHawkMike 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

AT&FM1S11=35

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Those were the days. For anyone under 40 see this for what we dealt with. https://support.usr.com/support/s-modem/s-modem-docs/usrv90.pdf The plug and play section is especially amusing these days.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

V.42bis was the shit

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I tried to look it up but google senseless and bing seems to stall when you type it. If I remember, AT&FM1 is return to factory settings option 1. What does the rest or all of it mean? Is S11 the dial speed

[–] IHawkMike 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yeah &F is factory default, M1 is speaker on only until connect, S11=35 is the dial speed (although we later learned that 50 ms is the minimum). Dial speed was important because we'd have Telemate on constant redial trying to get into the BBSes that were popular but were busy because they only had one or two phone lines.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nice. Thank you. I’m proud I almost remembered that. I never used telemate but I did partner in hosting a small bbs with a friend. FarpointBBS. We had tradewars and the main dude even got it hooked up to the internet in the late days. As you know, way before the www took off.

[–] IHawkMike 5 points 5 months ago

Sooo many good memories.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

M1 is mute true. Now it’s coming back!