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Posted: 6/19/2020 8:50:00 PM EDT
Remember back when you first got setup on AOL or some other provider and you got assigned 1 or 2 good numbers in a nearby city to dial into? Then it got busy around 7/8pm and you got booted off and couldn’t reconnect? Then, one day you found this seemingly secret number that had amazing uptime and you could hit up all the honnies in the chat rooms again? Yeah, that was awesome.
Attached File The Sound of dial-up Internet AOL- The Sweetest Sounds |
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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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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 View Quote Attached File |
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I didn't get real Windows internet until I was on my third computer. I remember dial up.
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Yep. First modem I had was 2400 Baud. I would use it to dial into the college's server, then bounce off that to the BBS. They let us do it to save long distance charges.
Then came 56K. Click a link, get a cup of coffee, take a shower, get dressed, and half the page might be loaded. |
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Quoted: Sure. High speed of 300 baud. View Quote I remember when I stepped up to a 1200 baud MPP-E modem and didn’t have the cradle anymore. I felt like a technological god. My favorite BBS had an amazing 2MB hard drive! Can you believe that? My upgraded Atari 400 had 64k of memory and I’d use a hole punch on the 5.25” floppies so I could write on both sides and store an incredible 720k of data. |
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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. |
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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. View Quote About a million people still use dial-up. Link |
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Playing Alien vs Predator on dial up sucked, but put in 1000 hrs on that game
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Logging in to CompuServe from a Tandy PC in Sears....CLASSIC!
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Quoted: Yep. First modem I had was 2400 Baud. I would use it to dial into the college's server, then bounce off that to the BBS. They let us do it to save long distance charges. Then came 56K. Click a link, get a cup of coffee, take a shower, get dressed, and half the page might be loaded. View Quote I started with 14.4, then 28.8. When I got my USRobotics 56k I thought I had arrived. Attached File |
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1200 baud master race checking in....
I can hear the connection in my tinnitus. |
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Free for a long time by just using all the free trial disk that came in the mail regularly. I can't even remember the names of all the ones I used.
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I remember when I went from 14.4 to 28.8 and thought it was amazing.
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Quoted: 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 View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Yep. First modem I had was 2400 Baud. I would use it to dial into the college's server, then bounce off that to the BBS. They let us do it to save long distance charges. Then came 56K. Click a link, get a cup of coffee, take a shower, get dressed, and half the page might be loaded. 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 Oh man, the day I went to 56.6, gaming was so much better. |
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Quoted: Free for a long time by just using all the free trial disk that came in the mail regularly. I can't even remember the names of all the ones I used. View Quote NetZero? You had to suffer with their screen ads from hell. Attached File |
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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 View Quote |
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Quoted: Remember back when you first got setup on AOL or some other provider and you got assigned 1 or 2 good numbers in a nearby city to dial into? Then it got busy around 7/8pm and you got booted off and couldn’t reconnect? Then, one day you found this seemingly secret number that had amazing uptime and you could hit up all the honnies in the chat rooms again? Yeah, that was awesome. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/259519/073DD3D8-B8EA-412E-B407-5FC076845ACC_jpe-1468410.JPG https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFuUCpBbbHw View Quote The day I found Net-Zero was magical |
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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. |
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I remember thinking I was a high roller when I had a second phone line installed for dial-up, so I wouldn't get kicked off every time the phone rang.
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My first computer Feburary 1995; Pentium 90, 540mb HD, 14800 modem, 1mb video, 2mb system ram with printer $2400.
AOL $29.99 a month 90 minutes free, .20 a minute thereafter. $200-$300 a month final cost. |
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I had a 300 baud, then a 1200, then a 4800, then a 14.4, 56k... seen it all.
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Went from 14.4 to 33.6, then up to 56k but it was too unstable and went back to 33.6.
Then DSL came along and I thought I was a baller. Caught a nasty virus from ICQ and my hard drive cratered trying to get rid of it, I think it was an 40GB Seagate. |
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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.
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I remember learning that there were no local numbers the hard way when my parents made me pay the $70 phone bill.
Took another couple years to get local dial up service. They had that until 2008 I want to say. |
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Quoted: Quoted: I’ve had an iPhone for 12 years, I don’t remember that. Cause you’re a kid still. Feels like it sometimes but then I have 2 kids of my own. In my 20s I kept waiting to feel like an adult, and eventually I realized this was it, I am what I am lol, I just have more responsibilities and opportunities. |
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