Or know what it stands for, without doing any research at all? The SO and I were enjoying some of the thread responses and he asked me how many Dopers I think would know the term or have attended one and I think it’s pretty darned likely that more than a few of you have.
So c’mon, don’t make me look like an idiot here! 
Extra points for the baud rate in question…
I’ve got no idea what’s going on in this thread.
So that would be a no.
If you’re referring to the Michigan Uncut Penis Tournament, then yes, I’ve been to many.
But I was too distracted to notice the baud rate.
Hot damn, sounds like a party! But no, not the same thing at all… fear not, however, I promise I will NOT be a drive by threadstarter and all will be made clear in time, grasshopper… 
Oh…oh course a Mid-Atlantic Utopian Premise Tourney. They’re fun, but mostly I go for the chicks. They’re Utopians so to them my big, frosty glass o’ Astro is always at least half full.
Okay, here’s a negative hint–it’s definitely not Morons United to Preserve Tyranny, because I’m not a Republican and homie don’t play dat… 
The last time I attended one the baud rate was 2600. While they were popular back when modems were scarce, enough people are online now that offline meetings of internet users are more specialized. If you tried to hold a general Modem Users Pizza Thingy now, the local stadium would have to rented out for a long weekend.
I don’t think so. But let me know if I have without realizing it. You know, in case I need to get shots.
Never heard of MUPT. I have been to a Modem User’s Pizza Thingy back in the 80s but we didn’t call it that. And as a matter of fact, I WAS trying to search for “muppet”.
http://www.google.ca/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2005-08,GGLD:en&q=mupt
Well, snap to me! I managed to stump this board for almost 18 hours on a computer related topic… I rule!
Czarcasm: Either it was 2400 baud modems, or more likely you were a phone phreaker on the 2600 Mhz freq, am I right?
Yep, it’s all about the Modem User Pizza Thing, and for those still scratching your heads, here’s a link to my blog entry on the subject.
I’m a little surprised there aren’t more dinosaurs around here who remember this odd little cul de sac of internet history–maybe just too ashamed to admit to being that old AND geeky…
No MUPT in Wiki, either, maybe I ought to write the article.
Hope you found your muppet there, Doc!
We had 'em all the time, except we called them GeekFests. My first ones had folks running 1200-9600 (mostly 2400).
I swear, there is no place where the incredible speed of progress is more apparent than in computer technology. I’ve tried to explain to people not terribly younger than I that I remember when computers didn’t have hard drives, when hard drives of ONE gigabyte were a wet dream attainable only by the uber elite and data transfer via modem was slow enough that I could put a BBS forum on scroll and be able to read the entire thing without pausing once… I get these blank looks with barely concealed micro expressions which seem to insinuate that I am a lying old bag…
Remember the one megabyte RAM limit on PCs that everyone KNEW would never be resolved–but it didn’t matter because there would never be an application that required that much memory? And the first Macs with the teeny screens that DID have 4-8Mb RAM onboard, but a twenty page document would crash it regularly because the whole thing was being held as one bigass graphic file?
I remember when I was a little girl being taken to work (at IBM) by my dad and going into the basement to SEE THE COMPUTER!! Massive cabinets that had lights blinking and tape drives whirring and the whole giant room was arctically cold–I bet my TI scientific calculator has more processing capacity than that monster, let alone the laptop I’m typing on…
Wonder what’s in store in the next twenty years? :eek:
Daleks
Yeah, it was a 2400 baud modem-that’s what I get for trying to type and chew gum at the same time.