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Stefan Claas <pollux@tilde.club> writes:

> yeti wrote:
>
>> Meshs aren't limited to wireless transports.  The self organising and
>> self reorganising (healing?) aspect help in the wired context too.
>
> Ah, ok. I have added to my capsule my Telefax Nr.

Oh!  I kept my last two old modems[0], but it just would have looked too
ridiculous to have a modem bigger than the computer it is attached to
and even the ZyXEL's powersupply would have been bigger than a Pi in an
own case.  And even the younger 56k modem is bigger than a Pi too, but
in that case not the modems wall-wart too.

So I ordered two newer small USB modems and then my neighbours were not
in the mood for UUCP[2].  So after a few test runs the newer ones went
back into their boxes.  :-/

> I think nowadays a Fax machine can count as smolnet device too ... :-)

Matt Parker mentioned "post-FAX era" and "alternative FAX" in one of his
videos[3].  Possibly the best "post-FAX era" jokes so far.

I really don't miss the paper->scanner->printer->paper era.  But looking
what we can do with modems today may be fun, especially where our
landlines now typically are flat-rates.

> I may add my De-Mail address too, because for us Germans, De-Mail is a
> cool smolnet too. :-D

Nope.  I never had one of those and that probably won't change within
this incarnation.

____________

0: From end of my FidoNet phase to 1st Internet PPP dial-up.

1: USR5637 - 56K* USB CONTROLLER DIAL-UP EXTERNAL FAX MODEM WITH VOICE
   <https://www.usr.com/products/56k-dialup-modem/usr5637/>

2: Vier Posts ab ...
   Re: Wer steht denn da auf meiner langen Leitung?
   <https://hive-project.de/board/viewtopic.php?p=14797#p14797>

   Dann abgezweigter Thread...
   Fido, UUCP, Citadel und Co...
   <https://hive-project.de/board/viewtopic.php?t=1339>

3: Back to the Fax Machine
   <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4xOtyUgtZ8>

-- 
I do not bite, I just want to play.

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Re: Small web protocols / alternative protocols yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2024-04-02 07:21 +0042
  Re: smolnet (was: Small web protocols / alternative protocols) Stefan Claas <pollux@tilde.club> - 2024-04-02 16:04 +0200
    Re: smolnet yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2024-04-02 15:48 +0042
      Re: smolnet Stefan Claas <pollux@tilde.club> - 2024-04-02 17:55 +0200
        Re: smolnet yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2024-04-02 17:10 +0042
          Re: smolnet Stefan Claas <pollux@tilde.club> - 2024-04-02 18:42 +0200
            Re: smolnet Stefan Claas <pollux@tilde.club> - 2024-04-02 19:54 +0200
              Re: smolnet yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2024-04-02 19:35 +0042
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                Re: smolnet Stefan Claas <pollux@tilde.club> - 2024-04-03 18:46 +0200
                Re: smolnet yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2024-04-03 19:27 +0042
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