A Crummy Commercial

File size inflation not monetary inflation.  All I wanted to do was to update my website URL and email address on the markers.pdf document that I wrote in 1999.  That original pdf was 68 kb in size.  I blogged about the loss of Worldnet before (which is why I wanted to edit the doc): https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2022/04/when-internet-changes-its-usually-for.html I didn't want to spend a lot of time and effort on finding the original document file, so I just used Libre-office to edit the pdf file as an open-document graphics file.  Then I just changed the old stuff to new, saved it as a pdf file and now it's over 1 megabyte in size ! From 68 kb to 1011kb, that's roughly 15 times the original size ! Haven't we made a lot of progress in the 21st century !  (lucky the internet speeds are 15x what they used to be, even here on the island). Best Regards, Chuck, WB9KZY http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm

 I remember in the dim past, the late 20th century, I first gained access to the internet by email.  This was done via the SBAonline BBS.  It was really wonderful, the SBA had a dial up BBS with an 800 number.  It had message areas, and of course it allowed the user to sign up and receive an email address.  With that it was possible to do searches and join email lists (like qrp-l).  As you might imagine it didn't last that long.   So I signed up for AT&T Worldnet.  It also had dialup access via an 800 number but with monthly and per minute access charges.  So I was able to continue with the email lists and also start selling kits and eventually had a web site: But you can see that the Wayback stopped crawling my site in 2008-9. jacksonharbor.home.att.net life span home.att.net/~jacksonharbor alternate URL lasted a little longer ?   This was due to ATT dropping Worldnet.  Maybe they didn't want to make a few dollars a month from ...