This article about a BBS sysop brings back sweet memories of the dial-up modem days.
I was a youngster in 1989 when I got a 1200 baud modem from the publisher of a Dutch Amiga magazine, so I didn't need to deliver my articles on a diskette anymore.
The connection was so slow, you could see the characters appear on screen one by one. Something that persisted in movies for 10-15 years.
My mum exploded when she saw the first phone bill after I started using the modem. 😅
