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Re: Thanks for Trumpet Winsock

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Post by garthk » Wed, Jan 20, 2016, 9:07 PM UTC

jlgaddis wrote: post #41

peckrob wrote: post #3

Oh man, the memories. For people who have grown up in a hyper-connected always-online world, it's hard to explain the pure joy of hearing the sound of your computer picking up the phone and sending those tones [0]. Because it meant going from isolated, disconnected and unitary to being part of a wider world. Suddenly, everything was at your fingertips and it was intoxicating to me as a teenager. Fire up Trumpet Winso…

> those tones http://evilrouters.net/56k.mp3 (MP3) It's my ring tone. I love the weird looks on people's faces when I'm in a meeting and my phone rings -- especially the "older" crowd (some of the "youngsters" don't recognize the sound).

Thanks for the handshake tone! The more, the merrier: did anyone archive examples from 1200bps up?

I've also been fruitlessly searching for line noise examples ~~~~~}}~00 etc. Remote Access had a line noise simulator; someone has to have details…

Re: Thanks for Trumpet Winsock

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Post by jacques_chester » Thu, Jan 21, 2016, 12:54 AM UTC

kristianp wrote: post #29

jacques_chester wrote: post #2

When I set that site up in 2011, it was really heart-warming how many people rallied around and chipped in. It's doubly nostalgic to see it here again, 5 years later. Edit: and there's still room on that donors page for any companies wanting to chip in something substantial. Edit 2: 5 years, not 4.

I'm interested in how much is being donated. Do you have any plans of releasing some stats?

In the past 24 hours, according to Peter, "US$4458 less fees of US$178.32 in 78 payments. two large ones. $2000 and $500."

Re: Thanks for Trumpet Winsock

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Post by Tepix » Sat, Jan 23, 2016, 12:38 PM UTC

adventured wrote: post #87

Tepix wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same here. I hardly used Trumpet Winsock because using first 386BSD 0.0 and later Linux was just the better way to get online :-) I still think it's great that Trumpet Winsock was around though. The more people on the internet, the merrier. Who knows if the internet would be everywhere today if the Windows users had been left out.

> Who knows if the internet would be everywhere today if the Windows users had been left out I can answer that for you: yes, it would be. The value proposition is among the greatest that has existed in all of human history. The hardware was ready, the price was low enough, nothing was going to stop it; lack of a layperson standard mass-consumer OS would have just slowed it down briefly until one was inevitably create…

You're forgetting about the competition. If AOL had had an even larger market share, they could potentially been more attractive than the internet.