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32BitsOnline: Getting High Speed — Not!

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 14, 2000

“From Your Local Telephone Monopoly.”

“To Our Customers:

“We want to thank you for your patience while we roll out our
Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) to your area. We understand that you
are very eager to receive the many benefits that DSL has to
offer….”

If you use UNIX or LINUX, you are obviously intelligent so
we fear you the most because we know that you will be connecting a
home network, as opposed to a single PC, to our DSL connection.
This angers us because you should be buying a real T1 connection
instead.


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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