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Landlines, you mean? I sometimes forget they still exist.
Even a wireless handset landline or a deskphone with functions such as an address book and call history would have a basic firmware OS, but something like rotary phone wouldn't
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A world where communication devices are limited to rotaries phones, CLI only terminals that only allow data transfer as SMTP, FTP and BBS traffic over dial-up using acoustic couplers connected to the rotaries handsets, would be a better world
Unacceptable. I want to be able to telnet.
Ok but the only server you can connect to is that one that plays that ASCII version of star wars in the term
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
for anyone who hasn't experienced this masterpieceNo MUDs? That's what I used telnet for.
Ok but only AberMUD
I can live with that.
Evil commies want to force you to touch grass, beware!
First they came for the gamers
I dunno about better, but it would certainly be a hell of a lot slower. A lot of websites would revert to text only, so perhaps it would be better lol
What web? Gopher and FTP.
Even a lot of offices have moved to VoIP.