@dsm @BionicNigga @coolboymew @dcc @ergo @j @noyoushutthefuckupdad @sun One of the dudes in the BBS documentary said he used to think 300 baud was as fast as it was going to get: "It's faster than reading speed, no one will need to get any faster." Dr. Hamming said that he kept getting distracted when talking to people, thinking about what could have been done with the spare cycles on the person's idle desktop; he says he had difficulty recalibrating.

That having been said, there are a lot of interesting protocols that don't involve TCP/IP and I don't see a huge need for speeds past audio, SSTV is cool shit. Lotta really excellent shit is low-bandwidth, it gets ignored. Hard to decide if that's disappointing, or an advantage.