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Er, I dunno. I just meant you could read it on a computer without a reader.

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frightlever said:
I had a friend who could use the internet in the early 90s without a computer or modem just by whistling down the phoneline. Is it like that?

Uhh... yeah...

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I saw that in a documentary once. Before the internet proto-hackers could get free long distance phone calls by ringing up the exchange and then play a toy whistle down the line to get connected.

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He was in that documentary. Honest.

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Randallw said:
Before the internet proto-hackers could get free long distance phone calls by ringing up the exchange and then play a toy whistle down the line to get connected.

There is a world of difference between mimicking a ringtone signal and "using the Internet by whistling."

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granted. It's so impossible, unless you're the Terminatrix, that I thought it was pretty obvious frightlever had gotten his context wrong.