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lil · 3899 days ago · link · · parent · post: Adults of Hubski that saw Internet born and raise, what stories about the early Internet you will tell to your grandchildren?
Well kiddies, you were asking why there's two phone lines coming into the house. We had a second phone line installed for the computers. Both those phone lines have been eaten by squirrels now. Of all the outlets in the house, only one is still working. All that blue cable in the basement? Oh, you saw where we drilled a hole in the basement wall to run the blue cable from the back of the house to the front? Right, and those other holes in the ceilings? Well that was before wireless. And that set of encyclopaedias. And all those reference books. Well, you know how granpa and I still like to do the Sunday New York Times Crossword Puzzle every week? When I was in school, we even used the encyclopaedia for school projects.