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Posted: 7/6/2020 5:16:09 PM EDT
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took so long just to download a few pics of naked ladies only to find out it was old granny porn.
that was living. |
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Posted: 7/6/2020 6:32:40 PM EDT
[#2]
AT is where its at!
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Posted: 7/6/2020 6:34:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: ever played Doom on a 14.4?  At 240x320 rez pixelated-monsters! |
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Posted: 7/14/2020 9:35:32 PM EDT
[#4]
Keeping the thread alive.
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Posted: 7/14/2020 9:46:29 PM EDT
[#5]
I decoded my first APRS packet about 6 years ago, and it is strikingly similar to the sound of a dial up connection. That's not a coincidence.
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Posted: 7/14/2020 10:34:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I decoded my first APRS packet about 6 years ago, and it is strikingly similar to the sound of a dial up connection. That's not a coincidence. The ding dong bada bing bing bong sound of a 56k modem was actually a big part of modem training stage. It was a frequency sweep. I can still practically hear it in my head. Yeah. I’m old. Google 56k modem training if you’d like to know more. |
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Posted: 7/14/2020 10:48:45 PM EDT
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Had to wait until I moved out of the folks house before I could have a modem... Someone told my mom that you would end up paying long distance charges for all those machines in the UK you talked to.
 Ten years later, I had to build her a system to get on "The E-Mail." |
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Posted: 7/14/2020 10:50:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Had to wait until I moved out of the folks house before I could have a modem... Someone told my mom that you would end up paying long distance charges for all those machines in the UK you talked to. Ten years later, I had to build her a system to get on "The E-Mail." And here we are where 100gig Ethernet is commonplace. |
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Posted: 7/22/2020 7:40:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: And here we are where 100gig Ethernet is commonplace. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Had to wait until I moved out of the folks house before I could have a modem... Someone told my mom that you would end up paying long distance charges for all those machines in the UK you talked to. Ten years later, I had to build her a system to get on "The E-Mail." And here we are where 100gig Ethernet is commonplace. Makes you wonder what’s coming down the pipe. |
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Posted: 7/22/2020 7:53:04 PM EDT
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I remember the first time I went from dial up speed to T1 at my wife's work place...I was in awe...
Then luckily we got a new neighbor who worked for Charter and got cable to our sub...then I was in awe again... On dial up it took all night to load CDNN's catalog...with cable it took less than 2 minutes. |
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Posted: 7/22/2020 8:12:38 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember the first time I went from dial up speed to T1 at my wife's work place...I was in awe...  |
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Posted: 7/22/2020 8:14:28 PM EDT
[#12]
My parents didn't get a phone call for about 2 years.
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Posted: 7/22/2020 8:30:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Makes you wonder what’s coming down the pipe. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Had to wait until I moved out of the folks house before I could have a modem... Someone told my mom that you would end up paying long distance charges for all those machines in the UK you talked to. Ten years later, I had to build her a system to get on "The E-Mail." And here we are where 100gig Ethernet is commonplace. Makes you wonder what’s coming down the pipe. Single mode fiber has essentially infinite bandwidth. It’s the optics and DSP speed that holds us back. 400g will become common place. Bandwidth capacity follows Moore’s law because it comes down to processing power. Even at the DSP level. We’re at that stage where bandwidth is faster than the hosts/storage. |
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Posted: 7/22/2020 8:33:08 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: And the good ol' "56k beware" pic threads on arf. Yep, I remembet that. I never had to worry about it though, my internet was always pretty fast for the time. I didn't start "surfin' the 'net until about 2000, though. |
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Posted: 7/22/2020 10:05:22 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.This, but I went from bbsing to logging into at+t systems for complete internet. On 300 baud accoustic. You could finger, and chat with some worker across the country. In highschool. |
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Posted: 7/23/2020 12:18:35 AM EDT
[#16]
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 Oh the memories of this!!!
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Posted: 7/23/2020 12:23:29 AM EDT
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Kids these days will never understand getting a 400 phone bill for attempting to download porn
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Posted: 7/23/2020 12:37:51 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Kids these days will never understand getting a 400 phone bill for attempting to download porn This is why antifa was born. |
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Posted: 7/23/2020 12:38:26 AM EDT
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I'll say that the concept of copy protection was anathema, and that was fun.
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Posted: 7/23/2020 12:40:10 AM EDT
[#20]
I grew up watching ZDTV. I loved that shit.
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Posted: 7/23/2020 12:57:04 AM EDT
[#21]
I used prodigy dial up for a while until college where we had a T1 internet connection.
The dial-up phase was around 1993 or 94 iirc. |
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Posted: 7/23/2020 1:04:57 AM EDT
[#22]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I grew up watching ZDTV. I loved that shit. ___  |
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Posted: 7/23/2020 1:09:11 AM EDT
[#23]
Usenet
Geocities TOTSE AOL Chatrooms I remember and used all of those things. |
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Posted: 7/23/2020 1:42:06 AM EDT
[#24]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Logging in to CompuServe from a Tandy PC in Sears....CLASSIC! There's an elderly Ham near me who was listing his equipment for sale on Craigslist. His email address was still his old Compuserve number,[email protected] I was Gobsmacked, I didn't think those servers still worked. |
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Posted: 7/23/2020 1:48:53 AM EDT
[#25]
8th st Latinas and The Milfhunter websites.
Rainbow 6 online multiplayer |
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Posted: 7/23/2020 2:22:05 AM EDT
[#26]
Kinda towards the tail end of dial-up popularity, but ICQ. That was an interesting place.
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Posted: 7/23/2020 3:14:48 AM EDT
[#27]
alt.binaries....
Then trading www site names with buddies that had good (read free) still photography smut |
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Posted: 7/23/2020 3:22:50 AM EDT
[#28]
Quote History Beretta_Jerry: Then trading www site names with buddies that had good (read free) still photography smut  |
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Posted: 7/23/2020 3:33:17 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: ISDN is where it was at. 1 or 2 64k channels, super expensive per minute rate on the ISP, too. I had ISDN at my house in 96. Dual channel ftw! |
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Posted: 7/23/2020 3:46:24 AM EDT
[#30]
Looking at lesbian porn sure took a long time, I opened tons of tabs and entered thru backdoors to those websites. Ones that you had to pay for and be a member of to see the content. The algorithm got changed and it no longer works...they must have caught on.
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Posted: 7/23/2020 4:13:12 AM EDT
[#31]
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 We all had the same childhood. |
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Posted: 7/23/2020 5:25:25 AM EDT
[#32]
Man oh man do I remember that, AOL, I still have that.
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Posted: 7/23/2020 6:21:49 AM EDT
[#33]
At one time I had 4 1400s stacked 2 ea on two hardlines, then I upgraded to two 2800s. Man I was like, moving on up to that deluxe apartment in the sky-eye-eye.
I remember paying like =$200 for a 525 mb HDD. 525 mb, man what am I gonna do with all this storage space?
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Posted: 7/23/2020 6:27:25 AM EDT
[#34]
Speaking of interrupted downloads, in the early days of video editing, it used to take in the area of one or two minutes plus per frame to render an edited video. So a 10 minute video would run 100% system resources from Monday morning until the wee hours of Friday, and if you even looked sideways at the machine that was doing it at any point, it would crash and you'd have to start over from the beginning. The software claimed you could restart where you left off, but in reality, the file was always corrupted if you tried that.
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Posted: 7/23/2020 6:29:02 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What was your first computer ? Mine was an Apple IIC that was a freebie. First new one was a Compaq P75, I think it came with 8 megs of RAM. Paid $2100 for it. |
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Posted: 7/23/2020 6:34:05 AM EDT
[#36]
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 |
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Posted: 7/23/2020 6:36:12 AM EDT
[#37]
No, dont pick up the phone, just hang it up. Maybe it didn't disconnect.
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Posted: 7/23/2020 6:56:11 AM EDT
[#38]
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 |
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Posted: 7/23/2020 9:50:59 AM EDT
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I remember setting up a network for a middle school in Ohio back in the mid 90s in the Windows 95 days.
We setup everything computers, network servers and they got a FULL T1 for internet BLAZING speeds for internet surfing! We asked the Principle if they were going to install a Websense firewall and web site blocker to keep the kiddies from surfing porn. His answers was "naw we don't need that the only thing the kids will be doing is internet research on the web for class projects and writing papers. All the computers will be in one location and we'll have a teacher in the room making sure they are doing their work." A week later, calls us up, "Um hey, you remember that Webfilter thingy you said I should get to monitor and block certain websites, can you get us one and install it?" Turns out that he didn't think Middle school boys be like that, but they do. Principle said it was slowing down their T1 all the porn surfing going on. Yea we laughed at that. |
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Posted: 7/23/2020 4:02:57 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/23/2020 4:55:05 PM EDT
[#41]
Quote HistoryLol, bunch of nerds trying to act pumped What occasion was this? |
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Posted: 7/23/2020 4:56:44 PM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Hayes Modem  |
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Posted: 7/24/2020 12:36:05 AM EDT
[#43]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember setting up a network for a middle school in Ohio back in the mid 90s in the Windows 95 days. We setup everything computers, network servers and they got a FULL T1 for internet BLAZING speeds for internet surfing! We asked the Principle if they were going to install a Websense firewall and web site blocker to keep the kiddies from surfing porn. His answers was "naw we don't need that the only thing the kids will be doing is internet research on the web for class projects and writing papers. All the computers will be in one location and we'll have a teacher in the room making sure they are doing their work." A week later, calls us up, "Um hey, you remember that Webfilter thingy you said I should get to monitor and block certain websites, can you get us one and install it?" Turns out that he didn't think Middle school boys be like that, but they do. Principle said it was slowing down their T1 all the porn surfing going on. Yea we laughed at that. Our school had a whole class room full of brand new computers back when I was in high school (class of 96). This would have been probably pre 95 or perhaps 95 I'm not sure. Our whole class sat there looking on in wonder, as the other class did keyboarding 101. My class was doing keyboarding II on fucking IBM Selectric 2 typewriters. I most assuredly would have been surfing for adult themed images had I had access to those computers.  |
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Posted: 7/24/2020 2:27:50 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We all had the same childhood. 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 We all had the same childhood. |
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Posted: 8/1/2020 6:35:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The ding dong bada bing bing bong sound of a 56k modem was actually a big part of modem training stage. It was a frequency sweep. I can still practically hear it in my head. Yeah. I’m old. Google 56k modem training if you’d like to know more. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I decoded my first APRS packet about 6 years ago, and it is strikingly similar to the sound of a dial up connection. That's not a coincidence. The ding dong bada bing bing bong sound of a 56k modem was actually a big part of modem training stage. It was a frequency sweep. I can still practically hear it in my head. Yeah. I’m old. Google 56k modem training if you’d like to know more.  Dial Up Modem Handshake Sound - Spectrogram |
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Posted: 8/2/2020 6:36:50 AM EDT
[#46]
I remember thinking 56K was a big deal. Then I got real broadband and WOW......
That was when the malware dialed some 900 number. We told Pac-Bell to F' Off we didn't call it and weren't paying for it... |
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Posted: 8/2/2020 6:43:45 AM EDT
[#47]
486 DX2 66
TURBO BABY! 
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Posted: 8/2/2020 7:02:46 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Wish you guys knew about Ski Free |
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Posted: 8/4/2020 12:44:13 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuote HistoryTurbo mode actually underclocked your PC  Contrary to what its name suggests, the "turbo" button was intended to let a computer run slower than the speed for which it had been designed. With the introduction of CPUs which ran faster than the original 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 used in the IBM Personal Computer, programs which relied on the CPU's frequency for timing were executing faster than intended. Games in particular were often rendered unplayable. To provide some compatibility, the "turbo" button was added. |
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Posted: 8/4/2020 12:45:23 AM EDT
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4 hours to download a damn song or 2.
Getting yelled at for Playing MW4 and tying up the phone line |
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