Funny Lore
Wired News: How to Heat Up Geek Reality TVExcerpt:
The Serial Life
Over the course of a season, seven geeks are forced to live together. They have plenty of space, adequate privacy and every luxury but one: They must share a single 2,400-baud modem, plugged into the house's only phone line, for all their networking needs. In the first episode, the housemates rediscover the joys of ASCII porn. Each week has a challenge, such as successfully doing laundry or not looking at ASCII porn for 24 hours. The winner of the challenge gets 15 minutes with a smartphone.
(I think I had a 800 baud modem back in the day)