From: anthk@disroot.org   
      
   On 2025-08-14, Retrograde  wrote:   
   > On Sun, 10 Aug 2025 08:11:54 -0000 (UTC)   
   > Lawrence D'Oliveiro  wrote:   
   >   
   >> US-based ISP America On-Line (AOL) will finally turn off its dialup   
   >> Internet service at the end of September   
   >   
   > There are other dial-up providers beside AOL.  That kind of connection   
   > is only good for email however and maybe Usenet.  Impossible to surf   
   > the modern web.  I remember when webpages strove to keep an individual   
   > page size below 30KB.  Long ago.   
      
   I used Gopher, Usenet and IRC with 2.7 KBPS. Some OPUS audio   
   stations (16 KBPS) were usable with mplayer and streaming   
   caching options.   
   Mosh for SSH worked like a dream, too; and I could   
   properly read some RSS feeds and web sites with lynx/links   
   and some of them, with edbrowse. Nowadays with   
   gemini (check comp.infosystems.gemini) and a proxy   
   to the web I almost can read news at great speeds   
   thru News Waffle at gemini://gemi.dev   
      
   You could be surprised what could you do with   
   constrained connections.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)