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Posted: 6/19/2020 11:11:21 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/19/2020 11:16:42 PM EDT
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I hosted a BBS for about five years in the late 90s. It was actually a lot of fun. You could send email through my system. If you sent it on a Monday evening My BBS would upload a message packet to a hub, then forwarded to its destination. Sometimes the recipient would see and you would get a response in only 48 hours. Crazy stuff, I know.
We also played online games as a group, lots of fun and a sense of community in simpler times. The porn is much better these days though. |
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Posted: 6/19/2020 11:17:44 PM EDT
[#3]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Hayes Modem  Hey! I thought my 1985 'acoustic coupler' was beautiful!  ___  |
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Posted: 6/19/2020 11:21:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I didn't get real Windows internet until I was on my third computer. I remember dial up. 
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Posted: 6/19/2020 11:22:42 PM EDT
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I started working for a cable isp as a csr rep in 2001. In 2018 I was a NOC manager when I got canned. I saw some shit.
Early cable modems got plugged into coax and grabbed an ip automatically. Com21 AND DOCSIS one way modems existed in the same areas. |
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Posted: 6/19/2020 11:25:40 PM EDT
[#6]
Quote HistoryQuoted: AOL used to mail every address on the planet and include in every magazine, install disks and initial trial account info. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: NetZero? You had to suffer with their screen ads from hell. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/259519/E3F48F92-0375-47C8-875D-5A4E0DE72919_jpe-1468502.JPG  |
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Posted: 6/19/2020 11:30:01 PM EDT
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I remember hitting up the ladies in the AOL chatrooms and getting one to the messaging area. After some intense sex talk they would tell me not bad. Then I would tell them I was only 17. Pissed them off to no end.
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Posted: 6/19/2020 11:30:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember 300 baud modems with ear cups, that you dialed the phone then put the handset into the cups. Used it to play Oregon Trail in 1976. No monitor, just a fanfold printer. That was a decade before I got bamboozled into buying my first IBM 3270 PC, PC/XT 370 (kind of a fucky 386).
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Posted: 6/19/2020 11:47:14 PM EDT
[#9]
My first internet connection was in 1996 or 1997 and it was a T1.
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Posted: 6/19/2020 11:49:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I started with 14.4, then 28.8. When I got my USRobotics 56k I thought I had arrived. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/259519/3F782BA3-8414-47E3-8112-BCD98C29EA0E_jpe-1468476.JPG 14 fucking 4. Those were the days. Patience was a virtue fo sho. |
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Posted: 6/19/2020 11:50:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I still use my original AOL email as my primary. Nice |
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Posted: 6/19/2020 11:53:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My first "computer" had no modem. Didn't have a hard drive, wouldn't run Windows (which barley even existed anyway) and wasn't even a DOS system. But, it did have two floppy drives (double density), a 9" monochrome screen, and 64k of ram. 64, fucking k, of RAM That was 1982 and it's still in the back room, somewhere. Would probably still boot up, if I could find that damned boot disk. https://i.imgur.com/N48kPmt.jpg Jeebus, I think we had $3000 in our Win98 setup. |
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Posted: 6/19/2020 11:54:42 PM EDT
[#13]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember waiting impatiently for the nudie pic to load from top to bottom, ready to pull the plug if mom walked around the corner Yes. |
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Posted: 6/19/2020 11:54:52 PM EDT
[#14]
Didn’t read thread. Ascend MAX.
Wonder what happened to them? |
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Posted: 6/19/2020 11:58:31 PM EDT
[#15]
I miss the old days of the internet...…
We had a local chatroom that was basically a bar for the introverted..... I got laid so much back then..... Not anymore. 
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Posted: 6/20/2020 12:14:56 AM EDT
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My first computer was a Gateway P2. If you wanted to play punch the dolphin, you had to look at pictures. You could down load video clips at 1mb per four minutes. These young whippersnappers don't know how good they have it with a high speed internet connection.
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Posted: 6/20/2020 12:24:47 AM EDT
[#17]
Quote HistoryQuoted: My first computer was a Gateway P2. If you wanted to play punch the dolphin, you had to look at pictures. You could down load video clips at 1mb per four minutes. These young whippersnappers don't know how good they have it with a high speed internet connection. My phone with 5G is a billion times better than 14 with a 75meg processor |
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Posted: 6/20/2020 12:26:21 AM EDT
[#18]
since I played games 7-8 pm sucked and you were lucky to connect before that peak time. StarCraft and diablo was boss back than to. And nothing beats somebody picking up the phone on that land line. Or when 56k was the bomb...
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Posted: 6/20/2020 12:27:55 AM EDT
[#19]
I member the original AimSurplus site.
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Posted: 6/20/2020 12:31:43 AM EDT
[#20]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Jeebus, I think we had $3000 in our Win98 setup. I remember Windows 95 and it was expensive as shit to. |
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Posted: 6/20/2020 12:33:02 AM EDT
[#21]
The computer class I took in freshman year of high school (77-78) introduced us to the Wang computer.
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Posted: 6/20/2020 12:33:16 AM EDT
[#22]
Quote HistoryQuoted: And the good ol' "56k beware" pic threads on arf. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I remember waiting impatiently for the nudie pic to load from top to bottom, ready to pull the plug if mom walked around the corner And the good ol' "56k beware" pic threads on arf. |
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Posted: 6/20/2020 12:58:58 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: since I played games 7-8 pm sucked and you were lucky to connect before that peak time. StarCraft and diablo was boss back than to. And nothing beats somebody picking up the phone on that land line. Or when 56k was the bomb... Decent bro |
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Posted: 6/20/2020 1:00:39 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Decent bro Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: since I played games 7-8 pm sucked and you were lucky to connect before that peak time. StarCraft and diablo was boss back than to. And nothing beats somebody picking up the phone on that land line. Or when 56k was the bomb... Decent bro |
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Posted: 6/20/2020 1:03:11 AM EDT
[#25]
I remember downloading porn pics...It was like one line at a time, and would take 10 mins to get a full image...if you were lucky. Print them out on your "laser" printer, and the quality was terrible.
Also. Songs on Napster would take DAYS. Yes...DAYS... |
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Posted: 6/20/2020 7:19:01 AM EDT
[#26]
Damn. You guys are old!
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Posted: 6/20/2020 7:33:42 AM EDT
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted: NetZero? You had to suffer with their screen ads from hell. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/259519/E3F48F92-0375-47C8-875D-5A4E0DE72919_jpe-1468502.JPG When Netzero first came out you could edit one of the program files so it wouldn’t show an ad. |
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Posted: 6/20/2020 7:55:16 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: now that is old school, always wanted an acoustic coupler modem started out with a radio shack 300 baud hooked into a trash 80 and dialed into local BBSs, a buddy had a Commodore 64 and his parents actually sprung for Compu-Serve eventually Dad brought home a DEC Rainbow and I was delighted when I figured out I could plug my Radio Shack modem into it's serial port and it had a terminal program burned into ROM I think the first time I was on the internet was through a Compu-Serve gateway and I ftp'd some bootleg guitar tabs, then came gopher which I never really got the hang of In the early nineties the accounting firm I worked at got an ISDN line and I was in hog heaven maybe a case of rose colored glasses but I remember that shit being fun then, now it just seems like a chore It was a high school computer lab. I spent all my spare time in there, writing cards and trying small programs. Oregon trail was a fun diversion when the teacher wasn't around. I went the Cad/Cam route in the infancy of that industry, so a lot of Unix equipment. PC's then couldn't dream of running that software, even as rudimentary as it was. Had to install T1 lines when those became available to run remote licensed workstations. I think the rapid pace of development is a lot of fun when you're younger, but becomes more tedious to keep up with later in life for a lot of people. I still like learning new things, but at my own pace and without the threat of becoming irrelevant. :) |
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Posted: 6/20/2020 7:58:38 AM EDT
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First modem was a 300 baud Radio Shack modem hooked up to a Teletype Model 43 dot matrix terminal. I used to dial in to the local university's VAX at night. Later on I got a 1200 baud modem that one of my employers had lying around and was able to use to dial in to the office in conjunction with a DEC VT220 terminal (circa 1988). Then it was on to 2400, 9600, 19200, 38400 and finally I got a 56K just before getting a DSL line installed. That was the end of dialup for me.
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Posted: 6/20/2020 8:00:03 AM EDT
[#30]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember hitting up the ladies in the AOL chatrooms and getting one to the messaging area. After some intense sex talk they would tell me not bad. Then I would tell them I was only 17. Pissed them off to no end.  I thought you were going to say, “After some intense sex talk they would tell me not tonight.” |
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Posted: 6/20/2020 8:07:01 AM EDT
[#31]
Remember how surreal it was upgrading from dial up? Having a constant internet connection.
And then AIM became the way to communicate. If you didn't use passive aggressive away messages you weren't cool. |
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Posted: 6/20/2020 8:13:29 AM EDT
[#32]
Remember it well. Even remember BBS systems before Al Gore invented the internet.
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Posted: 6/20/2020 8:16:18 AM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted: My first "computer" had no modem. Didn't have a hard drive, wouldn't run Windows (which barley even existed anyway) and wasn't even a DOS system. But, it did have two floppy drives (double density), a 9" monochrome screen, and 64k of ram. 64, fucking k, of RAM That was 1982 and it's still in the back room, somewhere. Would probably still boot up, if I could find that damned boot disk. https://i.imgur.com/N48kPmt.jpg I wasn't quite there but had an IBM PCjr with the memory pack expansion kit...a whopping 256kB combined.. I used to play kings quest and a game they called jumpman all the time. No modem or hard drive. It did boot with DOS and had the smaller 5 1/4" floppy disk. Mother board was an 8086 before the 286..386 etc became the trend of increases. |
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Posted: 6/20/2020 8:17:42 AM EDT
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Remember how surreal it was upgrading from dial up? Having a constant internet connection. And then AIM became the way to communicate. If you didn't use passive aggressive away messages you weren't cool. I was freaked out for a while at the concept of an internet router being always on. I thought “is it safe? How can that be?” |
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Posted: 6/20/2020 8:20:34 AM EDT
[#35]
Quote HistoryThank god I never had to deal with that long term, 10 minutes to burn it all......
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Posted: 6/20/2020 8:20:57 AM EDT
[#36]
Lol, I use to troll AOL chatrooms
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Posted: 6/20/2020 8:22:39 AM EDT
[#37]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Remember how surreal it was upgrading from dial up? Having a constant internet connection. And then AIM became the way to communicate. If you didn't use passive aggressive away messages you weren't cool. _____________  |
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Posted: 6/20/2020 8:24:16 AM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I wasn't quite there but had an IBM PCjr with the memory pack expansion kit...a whopping 256kB combined.. I used to play kings quest and a game they called jumpman all the time. No modem or hard drive. It did boot with DOS and had the smaller 5 1/4" floppy disk. Mother board was an 8086 before the 286..386 etc became the trend of increases. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: My first "computer" had no modem. Didn't have a hard drive, wouldn't run Windows (which barley even existed anyway) and wasn't even a DOS system. But, it did have two floppy drives (double density), a 9" monochrome screen, and 64k of ram. 64, fucking k, of RAM That was 1982 and it's still in the back room, somewhere. Would probably still boot up, if I could find that damned boot disk. https://i.imgur.com/N48kPmt.jpg I wasn't quite there but had an IBM PCjr with the memory pack expansion kit...a whopping 256kB combined.. I used to play kings quest and a game they called jumpman all the time. No modem or hard drive. It did boot with DOS and had the smaller 5 1/4" floppy disk. Mother board was an 8086 before the 286..386 etc became the trend of increases. I literally found these floppys on the sidewalk this week and ordered an external drive to explore. Was hoping to find Leisure Suit Larry  Attached File |
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Posted: 6/20/2020 8:25:57 AM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Lol, I use to troll AOL chatrooms Remember 'Kevin', the AOL Guntalk moderator? |
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Posted: 6/20/2020 8:27:18 AM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember the days before AOL. yes |
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Posted: 6/20/2020 8:28:09 AM EDT
[#41]
I worked for the rural ILEC/CABLE TV ISP locally here in Virginia and they have dial up customers.
They are too far out for DSL but still have copper phone lines. So they have to maintain a modem bank to support these people. The people connected are generally older and are still running older PCs and usually just use it for emails. Do talk to them about upgrading to them new fangled iPhones. Been running WindowsXP since 1992 and been good enough for them. |
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Posted: 6/20/2020 8:29:58 AM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Remember 'Kevin', the AOL Guntalk moderator? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Lol, I use to troll AOL chatrooms Remember 'Kevin', the AOL Guntalk moderator? That sounds familiar. I remember being kicked by snobby moderators. Oh well, on to the next room. |
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Posted: 6/20/2020 8:36:51 AM EDT
[#43]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I literally found these floppys on the sidewalk this week and ordered an external drive to explore. Was hoping to find Leisure Suit Larry https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/259519/0EA2DCE8-2763-4727-9C55-DD3EEAB52134_jpe-1468846.JPG I built a computer in back in 2003 that I had installed a 3 1/2" floppy drive on. I had it up until about 2 years ago when my ex-wife went batshit and started selling all my personal stuff that she didn't think I would notice missing.. I never had Leisure Suit Larry but seen it a few times, pretty funny if i remember correctly...wouldn't be CoC approved though... 
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Posted: 6/20/2020 8:41:57 AM EDT
[#44]
24 baud cradle modem. Compuserve, GEnie and all the BBSs you could find.  |
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Posted: 6/20/2020 8:44:02 AM EDT
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I still have an aol email having reached FUDD status many years ago.
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Posted: 6/20/2020 8:51:27 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 24 baud cradle modem. Compuserve, GEnie and all the BBSs you could find. http://www.trs-80.org/wp-content/uploads/telephoneinterface2-280x168-1482791064.jpg Ebay still has couplers. I wonder what it would take to make one work. |
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Posted: 6/20/2020 8:52:23 AM EDT
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My best (worst) story was when I had to deliver a video editing system to a client the next day, and had to install NT Service Pack 6 to run the software. I started the download on my 56K modem, and it took about 4 hours to fill thirteen (13) 1.44 MB floppies.
Now it's getting late, and I start uploading the Service Pack to the editing computer. The first 12 floppies took another hour or so to load, and the 13th and last floppy returned a 'CRC Error.' Of course that meant I had to download the entire Service Pack again, praying that the whole 13 floppy set would install properly. I think I got done around 2:00am, and ended up sleeping at the office. Good times... |
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Posted: 6/20/2020 8:52:51 AM EDT
[#48]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember when Zoom was a modem 
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Posted: 6/20/2020 8:54:10 AM EDT
[#49]
Quoted: 
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Posted: 6/20/2020 8:55:47 AM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: My best (worst) story was when I had to deliver a video editing system to a client the next day, and had to install NT Service Pack 6 to run the software. I started the download on my 56K modem, and it took about 4 hours to fill thirteen (13) 1.44 MB floppies. Now it's getting late, and I start uploading the Service Pack to the editing computer. The first 12 floppies took another hour or so to load, and the 13th and last floppy returned a 'CRC Error.' Of course that meant I had to download the entire Service Pack again, praying that the whole 13 floppies would install properly. I think I got done around 2:00am, and ended up sleeping at the office. Good times... Damn! |
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