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The Register, March 20th, 2023
Gentle reader, once again it is time to cushion your landing into the working week with Who, Me? - The Register's weekly chronicle of people having a worse day than you. Hopefully.
This week meet a man we'll Regomize as "Elliot" whose story comes from a long-ago almost forgotten time when ISDN was the latest and greatest way to send data long distances at speed.
A refresher: ISDN was often mocked as standing for "Integrated Still Don't kNow, but the Integrated Services Digital Network offered blazing-fast speeds up to 128 kilobits per second. Yes, per second. Can you even believe such a magnificent thing was posisble?