Any of you east coasters going to this big show? This lineup on a single stage would've been difficult to imagine in 1994 (ignoring the Black Keys' not existing yet).

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DSL is through a phone line, but not dialup. And no.

We went from dialup to FIOS fiber optic about 5.years ago. They never offered DSL in our neighborhood.

That was a shocking change!

I hated going home from a T3 at school to 56k at home.

I still remember my first telecommunications setup on a PC from home. It was a 300 baud modem and connection to CompuServe. That was approx 1986.

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I never heard it playing in the house. She was more of a Grateful Dead/ Hot Tuna kinda gal. She was a big fan of Taj Majal.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=seJAOWHUeJE

Listen to you now that you have a 75" screen!

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Sheesh!
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Today is full of you guys!

I got my first cell phone in 1991. Didn't have internet service until about 1996 or 1997.

At the distribution hub. No jinxing anything until it’s installed!

Also YouTube is a blight upon humanity at any screen size.

TikTok is far worse.

I used to doze off, while downloading data files, during the AOL era.

Sure, but comes up less around here. Really all the socials…

They are coming out of the woodwork!

I got my first cell phone when I started dating Mrs. Mojo. She lived in Dallas, and a phone call from my house to hers was long distance. The cost of the cell phone plan, which included calls to Dallas, was less than the long distance charges I was paying. That was when the phone was included in your plan costs.

I know - I was cool.

Not sure what happened since.

Vanity plate of the day: OLBROAD

Wish I could have gotten a better shot.


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Need to clean your dashboard!

You can still get the phone included if you’re not too bougie.

Also I wonder if I’ll start remembering I was cool when I get to your age… :innocent:

You tend to remember those fleeting moments. They are called the "good old days." Every old guy talks about them.

Well, you got me beat since I never had a car phone like yours!

My first was one of these:

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I worked as a mechanic in a gas station that was owned by a man who did machine work like grinding valves, etc. He lost one of his eyes as a child and he could do detailed stuff incredibly well. He drilled out a broken bolt until only the threads were left and when he unscrewed it there was this little coil of threads.

He built his own hulls for drag boats and he was one of the first boat racers to go over 100mph on the water. Great guy, father figure to me and others.

The Chevy Colorado came with weird bolts for the exhaust manifold, they were more or less self tapping, and they break when you try to unscrew them sometimes. You cannot remove them with an extractor. We had a service guy who would come out and use little grinders to disintegrate the bolts. It was amazing.

Some guys weld a nut to a broken bolt to remove it.

I got my first cell phone in the late 1990s. Got whatever brick-shaped Motorola model Bell Atlantic Mobile was handing out at the time.

In watchmaking, as you can imagine, screw heads break off on old watches sometimes. Because the plates and bridges of the movement are usually some form of brass or other nonferrous metal, you can take a plate with a broken off screw and boil it in an Alum solution and the steel screw will dissolve but the plate itself will not be affected.

I guess you can't to that with a broken steel screw in a cast iron block......