{"id":3874,"date":"2012-09-11T22:01:25","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T04:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=3874"},"modified":"2012-09-11T15:58:51","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T21:58:51","slug":"how-software-was-registered-back-in-the-day-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=3874","title":{"rendered":"How software was registered “back in the day” [PHOTO]"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was re-installing an old piece of software and ran across this gem after the install…<\/p>\n

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\"Old<\/a>

Old School Electronic Registration<\/p><\/div>\n

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Print for Mailing! Print for Faxing! Send Via MODEM! And most amazing of all, Send Via Internet!<\/p>\n

But wait…\u00a0 Send Via Internet would only work if there was a modem connection! A modem connection that would first dial out to a service portal, and then “bridge” you to the internet!<\/p>\n

A direct connection to the internet? Back in those days? Preposterous!<\/p>\n

Why, back in the day, we had to use home-phone landlines, find a local access number for the service portal, disable call waiting on the landline, warn everyone in the home NOT TO PICK UP THE @#*$ PHONE, use a picky-and-screechy-as-hell 9,600 (or 28,800!) baud MODEM to connect, and we …. liked it? Well, no. In retrospect, it really sucked. But at the time, that was the thing!<\/em><\/p>\n

I better quit before I pull out my e*World<\/a> CDs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was re-installing an old piece of software and ran across this gem after the install…     Print for Mailing! Print for Faxing! Send Via MODEM! And most amazing of all, Send Via Internet! But wait…\u00a0 Send Via Internet … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t