I used to surf up the interweb and IRC in Windows 3.11 on a an AMD 80386DX 40MHz edition. JA: after walking three miles through waist deep snow, up hill, when it was -40 outside just to get to your computer :P Shit, back then, we had to use TCP/IP over smoke signal protocol. Why the hell was your computer on top of a hill in waist-deep snow? O.o Why not? smoke signal protocol!?! in my day, we used a log and two sticks Yup, someone would be at the fire on the hill with a blanket and yell out the 0s and 1s to the guy whose turn it was to be demodulator. we just pounded them out on the log with our demodulator writing it down with charcoal of course, noise was always a problem lousy october gales we were droping smoke packets like there was no tomorrow then we came up with the idea of broadband over forest fire that didn't work very well I mean, we got the blazing speed we expected unfortunately, we had a tendency to burn out the modems =/