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Posted: 6/21/2020 6:10:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember using 300 baud acoustic coupling modem to dial into electronic bulletin boards around 1987. Are there still BBS today and can you dial in with a modern PC? |
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Posted: 6/21/2020 8:12:57 PM EDT
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I learned how. Enabled Telnet in Win 10 then opened a command prompt and typed “Telnet” followed by any IP address listed at telnetbbsguide.com/bbs
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Posted: 6/21/2020 8:15:58 PM EDT
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I have VERY recently looked into getting dial-up.
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Posted: 6/21/2020 8:28:33 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I have VERY recently looked into getting dial-up. @Imzadi Just to relive the old days or out of necessity? |
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Posted: 6/21/2020 8:31:39 PM EDT
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Trade Wars on BBS..... Best online game ever!
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Posted: 6/21/2020 8:31:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: @Imzadi Just to relive the old days or out of necessity? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I have VERY recently looked into getting dial-up. @Imzadi Just to relive the old days or out of necessity? Necessity. I'm out in the sticks and the best Internet I can get is 12/2 that I pay $100 a month for. And it is VERY flakey. I am a 100% work from home so I need stable. I've found out that I can get ISDN for a very reasonable price, but I can't find anyone that offers ISDN dialup that is taking new customers. |
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Posted: 6/21/2020 8:35:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Oh shit. I had COMPLETELY forgot about that!! Throwback! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Wish you guys knew about Ski Free Oh shit. I had COMPLETELY forgot about that!! Throwback! It's the first game I install on every new computer. I still play it. 
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Posted: 6/21/2020 8:38:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember Prodigy 300 baud dial-up on a Commodore 64 computer in college, and I thought that was super bad-ass.  . Had a cassette tape external storage unit. I shit you not.Oh, yes! I remember it well... I thought I had hit the big time when I got my first hard drive - 20 meg! Writing scripts in Kermit to connect to my work mainframe over DDN. I had a ‘special’ connection to a 2400 baud modem. And I found a floppy (5 1/2”) the other day... |
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Posted: 6/21/2020 9:10:35 PM EDT
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We don’t talk about usenet or NNTP. It doesn’t exist.
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Posted: 6/21/2020 9:14:41 PM EDT
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I remember using Netscape with my 14.4 modem.
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Posted: 6/21/2020 9:20:21 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember using Netscape with my 14.4 modem. Did you know a 56k modem only had that on the download and only on a digital modem on the far end on digital isdn signaling? Damn I’m an old network guy. This started the modern broadband development where bandwidth/channel allocation was devoted to the residential consumer. In networking the concept of bidirectional capacity/bandwidth not being the same is totally foreign to us |
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Posted: 6/21/2020 9:29:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Did you know a 56k modem only had that on the download and only on a digital modem on the far end on digital isdn signaling? Damn I’m an old network guy. This started the modern broadband development where bandwidth/channel allocation was devoted to the residential consumer. In networking the concept of bidirectional capacity/bandwidth not being the same is totally foreign to us Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I remember using Netscape with my 14.4 modem. Did you know a 56k modem only had that on the download and only on a digital modem on the far end on digital isdn signaling? Damn I’m an old network guy. This started the modern broadband development where bandwidth/channel allocation was devoted to the residential consumer. In networking the concept of bidirectional capacity/bandwidth not being the same is totally foreign to us Yes, that’s the first I’ve heard about that! |
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Posted: 6/21/2020 9:29:51 PM EDT
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Aol chat rooms were the shit. Im amazed at what i used to be entertained by way back when.
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Posted: 6/21/2020 9:31:37 PM EDT
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This is the website with all the BBS addresses. This is really awesome.
https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/bbs/list/detail/ |
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Posted: 6/21/2020 9:34:33 PM EDT
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Relatively late, but a IBM PS-2 and Juno mail.
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Posted: 6/21/2020 9:39:15 PM EDT
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I was a Prodigy kid, I remember having my own phone line in my room so I could be online all the time and not worry about parents.
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Posted: 6/21/2020 9:48:02 PM EDT
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Who remembers setting up Trumpet Winsock on a Windows 3.11 (not windows for workgroups) computer and using the original Mosaic of Netscape Navigator?
Search engines, pre google: Excite.com; Yahoo.com; Lycos.com; etc. All the message boards were text only based on a PERL script. AOL with room mates sucked because someone would always pick up the phone and drop your connection. Porn was postage stamp sized 15 FPS video, or slow loading whatever. But you know what? The internet was too slow for every fucking program on your computer to sit there monetizing and uploading shit about your system the whole time. |
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Posted: 6/21/2020 9:58:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Relatively late, but a IBM PS-2 and Juno mail. I had a Juno account. |
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Posted: 6/21/2020 10:03:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Who remembers setting up Trumpet Winsock on a Windows 3.11 (not windows for workgroups) computer and using the original Mosaic of Netscape Navigator? Search engines, pre google: Excite.com; Yahoo.com; Lycos.com; etc. All the message boards were text only based on a PERL script. AOL with room mates sucked because someone would always pick up the phone and drop your connection. Porn was postage stamp sized 15 FPS video, or slow loading whatever. But you know what? The internet was too slow for every fucking program on your computer to sit there monetizing and uploading shit about your system the whole time. I remember using Netscape Navigator which I thought was the finest browser but I don’t remember the version. I used Lycos webcrawler for my searching. I probably discovered early Arfcom on that or Yahoo. Yahoo had those goofy TV commercials.  Yahoo TV from the 90's |
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Posted: 6/21/2020 10:09:43 PM EDT
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This thread reminds me of this
 We used to get a whole PILE of emails at least twice a day.  https://www.ar15.com/forums/general/How_many_have_been_around_long_enough_to_rember___/5-109885/ |
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Posted: 6/21/2020 10:12:49 PM EDT
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Who else had WebTV?
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Posted: 6/21/2020 10:19:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: This thread reminds me of this We used to get a whole PILE of emails at least twice a day. https://www.ar15.com/forums/general/How_many_have_been_around_long_enough_to_rember___/5-109885/Lots of old names in that thread  |
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Posted: 6/21/2020 10:20:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryI remember wishing I had it! |
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Posted: 6/21/2020 10:22:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yes, that’s the first I’ve heard about that! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: I remember using Netscape with my 14.4 modem. Did you know a 56k modem only had that on the download and only on a digital modem on the far end on digital isdn signaling? Damn I’m an old network guy. This started the modern broadband development where bandwidth/channel allocation was devoted to the residential consumer. In networking the concept of bidirectional capacity/bandwidth not being the same is totally foreign to us Yes, that’s the first I’ve heard about that! The 56k modem ushered in baseband (Ethernet) technologies that were applied to analog broadband mediums. The baseband stuff was already widely deployed, it was broadband that overcame the “last mile” problem. All thanks to DSP advancements. It’s the same reason you can get gig speeds on your home wireless access point that costs 150 bucks. As digital signal processing improved at a rapid pace we get where we are today. It’s fucking fascinating really, the amount of bandwidth being squeezed out of it is really an analog media (coax, twisted pair, wireless/RF, etc) |
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Posted: 6/21/2020 10:32:13 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/21/2020 10:34:25 PM EDT
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Who members when your UART chip was the limiting factor of your serial port?
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Posted: 6/21/2020 10:38:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The 56k modem ushered in baseband (Ethernet) technologies that were applied to analog broadband mediums. The baseband stuff was already widely deployed, it was broadband that overcame the “last mile” problem. All thanks to DSP advancements. It’s the same reason you can get gig speeds on your home wireless access point that costs 150 bucks. As digital signal processing improved at a rapid pace we get where we are today. It’s fucking fascinating really, the amount of bandwidth being squeezed out of it is really an analog media (coax, twisted pair, wireless/RF, etc) Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I remember using Netscape with my 14.4 modem. Did you know a 56k modem only had that on the download and only on a digital modem on the far end on digital isdn signaling? Damn I’m an old network guy. This started the modern broadband development where bandwidth/channel allocation was devoted to the residential consumer. In networking the concept of bidirectional capacity/bandwidth not being the same is totally foreign to us Yes, that’s the first I’ve heard about that! The 56k modem ushered in baseband (Ethernet) technologies that were applied to analog broadband mediums. The baseband stuff was already widely deployed, it was broadband that overcame the “last mile” problem. All thanks to DSP advancements. It’s the same reason you can get gig speeds on your home wireless access point that costs 150 bucks. As digital signal processing improved at a rapid pace we get where we are today. It’s fucking fascinating really, the amount of bandwidth being squeezed out of it is really an analog media (coax, twisted pair, wireless/RF, etc) That’s crazy when you think about it. |
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Posted: 6/21/2020 10:48:57 PM EDT
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Man what a walk down memory lane. Good times! Juno, Geocities, Angelfire, ICQ, AOL, 56k. Times were simpler then. Ah, youth!
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Posted: 6/21/2020 10:54:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Lots of old names in that thread |
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Posted: 6/21/2020 10:54:56 PM EDT
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C-64 with a vic modem. 300 baud. Then I got a 1200 baud and OMG!
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Posted: 6/21/2020 11:18:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Who members when your UART chip was the limiting factor of your serial port? I really don't miss having to set I/O and IRQ settings with jumpers |
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Posted: 6/21/2020 11:50:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: If you go over your limit on Hughesnet, they let you experience what it was like. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: What ever happened to AOL? It was great at the time, mid 90's, but yeah it sucked. I had dial up until about 6 or 8 years ago. I have DSL now, still slow a shit by today's standards. About a million people still use dial-up. Link If you go over your limit on Hughesnet, they let you experience what it was like. |
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Posted: 6/22/2020 6:19:22 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: " Free McUZI ! " Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Lots of old names in that thread 
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Posted: 6/22/2020 8:35:56 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Null modem cable FTW! Back in the late 80s friends and I wanted to play NetTrek on our Mac Plus computers. We networked two of them together with 2 parallel printer cables connected with straightened out paper clips because we didn't have a null modem adapter, and held together with tape. It worked. |
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Posted: 6/22/2020 8:45:51 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I have VERY recently looked into getting dial-up. 2 years ago I tried to get a POTS line activated at my house, so we could have phone service if the power was out(hurricanes). No phone company in my county would do it. They each offered a VOIP phone over my internet, and were mystified when I asked “how TF is that gonna work if the power is out?” |
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Posted: 6/22/2020 11:24:01 AM EDT
[#36]
Yep. It’s even worse in my AO. They are not maintaining copper lines for land line phones.
My parents have DSL and average less than 1 Mbps. Call in to the company and get the run around. Techs won’t come out here in BFE to look at the lines. Service keeps degrading. They won’t even hook my house up due to lack of available nodes. And no, they will not be upgrading their equipment. You’ll see roadside pedestals run over, left lying open for months. It’s a shitshow. |
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Posted: 6/22/2020 1:07:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Back in the late 80s friends and I wanted to play NetTrek on our Mac Plus computers. We networked two of them together with 2 parallel printer cables connected with straightened out paper clips because we didn't have a null modem adapter, and held together with tape. It worked. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Null modem cable FTW! Back in the late 80s friends and I wanted to play NetTrek on our Mac Plus computers. We networked two of them together with 2 parallel printer cables connected with straightened out paper clips because we didn't have a null modem adapter, and held together with tape. It worked. I love stories like that. |
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Posted: 6/22/2020 4:03:07 PM EDT
[#38]
Favorite game was Legend of the Red Dragon, and for those old enough to remember that one, you can still play a version of it.
LOGD |
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Posted: 6/22/2020 4:05:49 PM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Favorite game was Legend of the Red Dragon, and for those old enough to remember that one, you can still play a version of it. LOGD What do you know about Spaceship Warlock? |
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Posted: 6/22/2020 4:59:23 PM EDT
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It was awful
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Posted: 6/22/2020 5:18:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember Prodigy 300 baud dial-up on a Commodore 64 computer in college, and I thought that was super bad-ass. . Had a cassette tape external storage unit. I shit you not.Mid-80s: Trash80 with games on the cassette player. Early 90s: Packard Bell 386 and IBM PS/2 with dial-up (I think this was Prodigy) Mid to late 90s: homebuilt Pentium 200 (!!!!!) with AOL during college Late 1999: me and my new wife moved into our first apartment, had upgraded the homenuild PC to a Pentium II (I think) and had this new fangled Comcast "broadband" internet. |
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Posted: 6/22/2020 5:18:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Favorite game was Legend of the Red Dragon, and for those old enough to remember that one, you can still play a version of it. LOGD @unsub073 This is an amazing coincidence. I was messaging back and forth with a guy on The Cave BBS today and that game is on there! Also Operation Overkill and Trade Wars. Here’s the address if you have a Telnet program. cavebbs.homeip.net  Attached File |
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Posted: 6/22/2020 5:31:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: @unsub073 This is an amazing coincidence. I was messaging back and forth with a guy on The Cave BBS today and that game is on there! Also Operation Overkill and Trade Wars. Here’s the address if you have a Telnet program. cavebbs.homeip.net https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/259519/391EED69-E128-4E34-BA22-FB3BF9AF25C3_jpe-1472524.JPG Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Favorite game was Legend of the Red Dragon, and for those old enough to remember that one, you can still play a version of it. LOGD @unsub073 This is an amazing coincidence. I was messaging back and forth with a guy on The Cave BBS today and that game is on there! Also Operation Overkill and Trade Wars. Here’s the address if you have a Telnet program. cavebbs.homeip.net https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/259519/391EED69-E128-4E34-BA22-FB3BF9AF25C3_jpe-1472524.JPG 38400 baud. Your modem is way too new. 
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Posted: 6/22/2020 5:44:08 PM EDT
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I have 4 of these....all still operational. Three 1's and an Executive. Pretty neat for their time.
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Posted: 6/22/2020 6:04:33 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I have 4 of these....all still operational. Three 1's and an Executive. Pretty neat for their time. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/dP0eT5V0m8trBsUyFatLCL-AEExfpXSBoo5fQJD4nM5DiGVFTPZVfAhe8wSSdTE4Yuw3fVOxztyN_knOtBZ5wUItDrg7jsCh0AGS When I started doing networking. Not my pic, googled. The Geiger Counter sound for the frames was nice. 
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Posted: 6/22/2020 6:17:14 PM EDT
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I remember overclocking my Packard Bell from 150MGz to 300 and felt like a genius after. My first PC was an IBM Aptiva with Win95 with 16mb of ram and a 100GB hard drive...impressive numbers for only costing $1700
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Posted: 6/22/2020 6:22:02 PM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember overclocking my Packard Bell from 150MGz to 300 and felt like a genius after. My first PC was an IBM Aptiva with Win95 with 16mb of ram and a 200GB hard drive...impressive numbers for only costing $1700 I was technically on the Internet in college in late 80s. Had to pay extra to have the 1200/2400 baud terminal connection in the dorm. I remember fingering lots of chics (you Unix dogs know what I mean). I was fingering and chatting with girls all over the world. And this new thing called e-mail. Then I discovered Usenet/nntp which we don’t talk about. The very first social media as the nntp feeds were replicated across the world, not just to the BBS host. |
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Posted: 6/22/2020 6:40:46 PM EDT
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For several years in the mid 90s I had free dialup internet and my parents never even asked where it was coming from. They had no idea you even had to pay for it.
The secret: my friend's dad had a local ISP dialup account and I swiped his login info while fixing his computer. A smart ISP would have had user accounting of some sort to prevent the same user from dialing in multiple times. This one didn't. So he could be online the same time as I was. He was paying flat rate so nobody ever noticed. I remember downloading the grainy Pam Anderson /Tommy Lee video on 28.8k. Some of the first video porn I'd ever seen. My first online gaming was playing Duke3d on direct modem play with friends from school At some point my parents wanted their own email address and wanted to go with AOL so that train ended. Fortunately we got cable internet in 98. Everyone came over to my house to download stuff since I also had a CD burner. Downloading entire albums on napster and handing out CD copies to all my friends, good times. Then not long after that Kazaa/Linewire showed up with full games/apps and ripped movie VCDs. Much piracy. I also remember @Home put everyone on what was basically a single Ethernet segment and didn't filter NetBIOS/SMB traffic. If you opened Network Neighborhood you would see your neighbors Windows PCs and workgroups listed. You could access shares drives if they had no password. |
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Posted: 6/22/2020 6:45:18 PM EDT
[#49]
I actually miss AIM.
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Posted: 6/22/2020 6:48:52 PM EDT
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People couldn’t call in to the phone lines because we played DOOM head to head for hours.
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