Time Capsule

#PreDigitalIndia

Two more airlines that don't exist anymore.

A simpler time before apps and bans.

One World One Dream.

Identify what's wrong with this photo.

Pre 9/11 world when travel agents would murder your name and you could still board your flight without any ID matching the name.

Back when power cuts were a regular feature in Bangalore, these corporate chain cybercafes were the only places with generator backup and guaranteed connectivity.

Also loyalty card that got me free fruit trifle with my Chicken Cordon Bleu.
https://twitter.com/kingslyj/status/1086183694878965762

(Finally had real Chicken Cordon Bleu a couple years ago in Goa.

Ham >>>>>>>>> Paneer.

Still miss Casa though.) https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/8495/chicken-cordon-bleu-i/

Linux compatible VoIP hardware from the dialup era.

H.323 calls with on chip g729 codec using standard POTS instrument.

Quicknet actually mainlined drivers.

One of the few pieces of hardware that Linux kernel has dropped support for.

Granddaughter board with transformer.

Just turned the card around.

Bought this for my PC when I naively thought FireWire/IEEE1394 would beat USB because Apple was shipping it.

(The only time I've used FireWire was to transfer video from a DV camcorder. Think I did that on my iBook G4. Definitely edited the video on OS X.)

(Learnt from that experience and haven't spent money on Thunderbolt.)

Before I found vimqrc.pdf

(T)rusty boot disk.