Back from Vacation - Interesting Tid Bit

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Mon Jul 30 00:25:24 2001

On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Mike Ford wrote:

> >They didn't invent "wardialing", but the term came to be after the movie
> >premiered, as people associated the act of dialing many thousands of
> >numbers in hopes of finding a carrier to explore with what David Lightman
>
> Huh, I remember it as using modems to rapidly redial busy numbers like for
> radio station contests.

Nope. Similar concept, different purpose.

Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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