Originally Posted by adultmobile

Someone in razor I talked with in voice, in hotlines, those sex lines for pay but you would hijack somewhat to do conference calls between guys, sort like pbx, razor guy was in norway or maybe I am wrong.

US Robotics HST 9600 in year 1988 or so, that costed 1 month of salary of my parents (sum of both their salary) or more, and it was the only and minimum speed the El1t3 boards would allow to connect. Of course I got one from the group just as I was a cracker, no way I can afford one of my own. I remember around 1990 everyome upgraded to HST 14,400 but shortly later some other protocols than HST was out, then internet out with ftp's, newsgroups and IRC channels... anyone remember #channels of IRC with the @operator wars including botnets trying to ping flood each other and takeover the @'s control of channel itself? The main reason to hack the first internet servers it was to put there an IRC bot script, or fill some hidden ftp folder of warez to trade, if I remember correctly. There was a "trumpet winsock" on windows 3.11 to go on internet and "mosaic" web browser, at the time irc and ftp's was way bigger then the web, the html it looked like a joke. I would have not guessed everyone would end up in facebook really, at that time. I was thinking modems was only for a few geeks and others had no reason whatsoever to get there.