Haven't been reading so much about current crypto but have been reading about companies like Zenith Electronics (I passed the old Zenith, now Abt building in Niles today while I was working. Go figure!) and electrical circuited systems (Teletex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext) that were sort of like the Internet before the IETF and NWG/ISI RFCs of the early 80s :)
Can we lease a direct line to relay the proper value for our beloved coin?!
So yes I will look into that my friend. :)
BTW, Prestel is a little mindblowing. Helps you realize something about the internets (plural), private blocks of IP addresses that connect to it from ancient "apps" of the days I was not on this Earth myself. All so more interesting every time I care enough to ask "how did we get here?" Which is a lot =P
Prestel
Prestel (abbrev. from press telephone), the brand name for the UK Post Office's Viewdata technology, was an interactive videotex system developed during the late 1970s and commercially launched in 1979. It achieved a maximum of 90,000 subscribers in the UK and was eventually sold by BT in 1994.
The technology was a forerunner of on-line services today.
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Wow, sounds like pre-AOL to me. 🤓
My mind started meandering the other day when contemplating having only power coming from a diesel generator (getting ready to get the house wired to plug it in). Thought that throwing a partial volt to laid out copper lines would not even factor in on power rationing. With the lit up copper then we could have local telephones connecting to BBSs via modems. Keeping blockchains updated would be slower yet so would frequency of transactions most likely. We used to proudly promise email from coast to coast taking no more than 2 days on TKC BBS. 🤓
Sometimes a slower world is a nice thing.
For connecting outside of the copper lines then audio signals over CB radio waves could be used using modem protocols. Read an article on it in the Sinclair magazine in the 80's.
Welcome to the Mad Max Network, please enter the amount of minutes you would like to purchase. 🤓
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@novacadian by the source does DVC mean "The Source" as in pre-AOL :D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Source_(online_service)
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The Source (online service)
The Source (Source Telecomputing Corporation) was an early online service, one of the first such services to be oriented toward and available to the general public. The Source described itself as follows:
It's not hardware. It's not software. But it can take your personal computer anywhere in the world.
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if you were a real person I'd let you follow me around all day and drop that kinda truth.
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btw did you happen to write about base64 - say I dk, because pre-release "bitcoin" from Nov 2008 had it all over its original main.cpp and main.h file? Hehe
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