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| <BR>I live in Gibraltar, which looks like this. | |||
| I have grown disenchanted with editing Misplaced Pages and no longer support the project. | |||
| Look closely at the picture and you can see where I live ... | |||
| '''Online History''' | |||
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| 110bps | |||
| 1967 I used an time sharing system at ] | |||
| {{User committed identity|aff62673c1f2c941246d6a58f591d3dc61d7374a|SHA-1|||}} | |||
| 300bps | |||
| 1970 online systems in the UK went faster than a speeding teletype | |||
| 1200bps | |||
| To Gibraltar in the late seventies. | |||
| 2400bps | |||
| In the mid eighties in an attempt to popularise modems, I started the first BBS system in Gibraltar, using a Z80 CP/M machine and my software, replacing this with a PC and commercial software, Wildcat! | |||
| 9600bps | |||
| The number of lines and speed grew until the Internet arrived | |||
| first via X25 into MIT and then | |||
| In 1995, when it was tricky and expensive, I registered gibnet.com because .gi did not exist and built it up into a popular site, | |||
| Alexa ranks it 534,737th. as websites go. | |||
| 14000bps | |||
| a Gibraltar ISP called GibNet started (no relation)so I got an | |||
| account. | |||
| 38000bps | |||
| modems started to get faster, but the lines sucked or rather spluttered. | |||
| 64000bps | |||
| ISDN was solid but expensive and seemed fast | |||
| 512000bps | |||
| Until ADSL arrived | |||
| 2005 saw the start of gibnews.net which presents news stories without editorial bias -its a sort of 'mini wiki' in that the content is directly entered by its users, not by a blogger with bias or an editor with an agenda. | |||
| For the last couple of years I have been trying to improve the pages about Gibraltar on wikipedia and have now registered this username. | |||
| I understand persistance, in 1994 I helped start the campaign to get the ] which took ten years to win. | |||
| Nulli expugnabilis hosti. | |||
| --] 02:05, 13 December 2005 (UTC) | |||
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| '''If you have anything to say about this, please do so on the discussions page.''' | |||
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I live in Gibraltar, which looks like this.
I have grown disenchanted with editing Misplaced Pages and no longer support the project.
Committed identity: aff62673c1f2c941246d6a58f591d3dc61d7374a is a SHA-1 commitment to this user's real-life identity.