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The Talk Show With John Gruber

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What Was Your Connection Like Back in the 90's?

We had a little home office where she had a desk. And I think most of our apartments back then. There was a guy named Peter Sischl as S-I-C-H-E-L who had a thing for the Mac that would let one Mac be connected to the modem but would share the connection over the local network with others. Amy could get on her computer. She could initiate it on her own from her iMac so that I didn't have to go over to my computer if I wasn't around. But it was so, and that's what these, the way that everything was so slow back.

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