Bash again:

<JustinArthur> I used to surf up the interweb and IRC in
               Windows 3.11 on a an AMD 80386DX 40MHz edition.
<skyfire> JA: after walking three miles through waist deep 
          snow, up hill, when it was -40 outside just to get 
          to your computer :P
<JustinArthur> Shit, back then, we had to use TCP/IP over 
               smoke signal protocol.
<Nikolai> Why the hell was your computer on top of a hill
          in waist-deep snow? O.o
<Lorentz> Why not?
<skyfire> smoke signal protocol!?!
<skyfire> in my day, we used a log and two sticks
<JustinArthur> Yup, someone would be at the fire on the 
               hill with a blanket and yell out the 0s 
               and 1s to the guy whose turn it was to be
               demodulator.
<skyfire> we just pounded them out on the log with our
          demodulator writing it down with charcoal
<skyfire> of course, noise was always a problem
<skyfire> lousy october gales
<skyfire> we were droping smoke packets like there 
          was no tomorrow
<skyfire> then we came up with the idea of broadband over 
          forest fire
<skyfire> that didn't work very well
<skyfire> I mean, we got the blazing speed we expected
<skyfire> unfortunately, we had a tendency to burn out the 
          modems =/