# Dug up this old pic. 11:49 PM. October 11, 1997. Tokyo street. Futuristic Jap...
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Dug up this old pic. 11:49 PM. October 11, 1997. Tokyo street. Futuristic Japan was already here. No Wi-Fi. Just an Apple Newton, an RJ-11 cable, and a grey NTT ISDN public phone booth. I used GRIC to dial a local node, pulling my email from Hong Kong for a few yen a minute. Listening to the modem handshake in the dark, it wasn't just about checking messages. I was trying to prove to myself that a new world was coming. We're living in it now, but nothing beats that cyberpunk feeling. 📟 ![Image 1](https://social-archiver-api.social-archive.org/media/archives/patrickng/lp3ufbvaLr/media/0.jpg) --- #AppleNewton #90sInternet #Tokyo
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