Thank you for sharing this. I started as a youngling on a 300 baud modem. 1200 baud upgrade modems had a zeitgeist of being just for piracy — who else would need so much bandwidth said those who charged by the minute. Information wasn’t flowing freely and resource-dense countries had advantages to spread it around themselves. Before HTTP and WWW there wasn’t much information architecture existent either.

But what makes me happy to hear is that - on the other side of the planet - random kids were also plugging in a modem, to get connected with each other and press at the edge of the future.