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   At 8:47 PM on 16 Sep 19, Sean Dennis said to August Abolins:   
      
   SD> Hi August,   
      
    AA> Besides.. the modem technology is fickle, and slow.   
      
   SD> I disagree.  In all of the data centers I have ever worked at, there has   
   SD> -always- been one POTS connection as an emergency backup.  The POTS   
   SD> system is actually much more reliable than the Internet physically but   
   SD> yes, it's slow, which is why it fell out of favor.   
      
   Forgive my ignorance...what's a POTS line? Is this the same as an analogue   
   landline?   
      
   (You are witnessing life without the internet in action - the old me would   
   have just googled this and found the answer in a second. But then I would have   
   also have seen the 'gmail' link at the top of the page and so would have   
   quickly checked my email in Pavlovian fashion. Then in my inbox I would have   
   been tempted by a Quora email about how I should be best investing my money.   
   After reading that I would have bought some rubbish amazon ebook the poster   
   was actually pushing, before, one hour later, seeing that my telnet connection   
   had timed out. And then I probably wouldn't call back to reply, and in my   
   embarrassment probably would have never called again.)   
      
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