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[–] moonshadow@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm old enough you have to replace "cracking neighbors wifi" with cloning our modem and "youtube" with funny pictures from irc homies, but same. Working around internet access restrictions was a milestone between fun things I could do with computers and how they really worked

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What’s the modem clone about?

[–] moonshadow@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They would unplug our isp provided modem and take it to bed with them, so I tracked down another one from the manufacturer and copied the eeprom from theirs onto it. It was a simpler time :p