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I've been online since ...
110bps 1967 I used an time sharing system at
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.
--Gibnews 02:05, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
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