They used to call women like my long-suffering missus “Computer Widows” because so many men like me spent their evenings hunched over 15-inch CRT monitors messing around with things like text disk operating system commands and bulletin board servers. There was no World Wide Web yet and we hobbyists could only exchange e-mail by linking to Unix server computers, mostly at universities. These links ran at a whopping 300 bits per second. This column doesn’t have room enough for all the zeros it would take to express how much faster are today’s common high-speed broadband systems.

 

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