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Gosh I started with a 2600 bps. I think I still have it. It was given to me since the ones out in market were 28kpbs (expensive). Eventually I got a 14.4 kbps. I felt like I was flying.

I did some free work for someone. The logo was for "Digi(something)" ... is it one of you monkey's?

I used QuarXPress and Photoshop. One of the first software I used and installed on a 3.5 disk. At a young age this was exciting tech time for me.

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Be careful. You couldn't afford a US Robotics 14.4, and yet you could afford QuarXPress, and Photoshop? Hmmm...I smell something fishy. ;-)

I didn't ask where that came from. Somebody must have copied that floppy...

Heh, kind of glad I started when I did. 14.4 and up modems really were quite usable back then, for what the web was. I still remember waiting for big files like MUD source code. Also, I remember installed Slackware with a dozen or so floppy disks :)

Started with 300 and was insanely jealous of people when 1200 became affordable enough for them. I think I eventually got 1200, but then many people had moved to 2400.

I jumped from 300 (Apple Cat) to 2400 and felt like the king of the world :)

I had 300 baud, which had a switch on the side. I would call a BBS and flip it on when it made the handshake beeps. I tried to host a BBS of my own between the hours of 7pm and 9pm, but my parents were not happy with it.

Started w/sleepover's at my buddy's house dialing into the mainframe to play Adventure on his Dad's terminal w/acoustic coupler modem. Pretty sure it was slower than 300.

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