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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.
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Posted: 6/19/2020 8:51:42 PM EDT
[#1]
I’ve had an iPhone for 12 years, I don’t remember that.
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Posted: 6/19/2020 8:51:46 PM EDT
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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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Posted: 6/19/2020 8:52:46 PM EDT
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Sure. High speed of 300 baud.
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Posted: 6/19/2020 8:59:06 PM EDT
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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   Attached File |
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Posted: 6/19/2020 8:59:17 PM EDT
[#5]
Hayes Modem
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Posted: 6/19/2020 9:03:24 PM EDT
[#6]
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 9:04:18 PM EDT
[#7]
I remember the days before AOL.
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Posted: 6/19/2020 9:05:04 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/19/2020 9:08:11 PM EDT
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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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Posted: 6/19/2020 9:08:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Sure. High speed of 300 baud. 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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Posted: 6/19/2020 9:10:12 PM EDT
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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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Posted: 6/19/2020 9:10:18 PM EDT
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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 And the good ol' "56k beware" pic threads on arf. |
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Posted: 6/19/2020 9:16:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 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 |
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Posted: 6/19/2020 9:19:14 PM EDT
[#14]
Playing Alien vs Predator on dial up sucked, but put in 1000 hrs on that game
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Posted: 6/19/2020 9:19:43 PM EDT
[#15]
Logging in to CompuServe from a Tandy PC in Sears....CLASSIC!
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Posted: 6/19/2020 9:25:34 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/19/2020 9:31:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 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.  Attached File |
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Posted: 6/19/2020 9:33:26 PM EDT
[#18]
1200 baud master race checking in....
I can hear the connection in my tinnitus. |
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Posted: 6/19/2020 9:33:52 PM EDT
[#19]
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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Posted: 6/19/2020 9:34:46 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I’ve had an iPhone for 12 years, I don’t remember that. Cause you’re a kid still. 
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Posted: 6/19/2020 9:35:14 PM EDT
[#21]
I remember when Zoom was a modem
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Posted: 6/19/2020 9:35:14 PM EDT
[#22]
I remember when I went from 14.4 to 28.8 and thought it was amazing.
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Posted: 6/19/2020 9:36:16 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 Quote HistoryQuoted: 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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Posted: 6/19/2020 9:38:46 PM EDT
[#24]
I still use my original AOL email as my primary.
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Posted: 6/19/2020 9:40:52 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/19/2020 9:41:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 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. NetZero? You had to suffer with their screen ads from hell.  Attached File |
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Posted: 6/19/2020 9:49:31 PM EDT
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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: 6/19/2020 9:51:19 PM EDT
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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=dFuUCpBbbHwThe day I found Net-Zero was magical |
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Posted: 6/19/2020 9:53:11 PM EDT
[#29]
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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Posted: 6/19/2020 9:55:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: AOL used to mail every address on the planet Not even close. Not even in the US of A. |
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Posted: 6/19/2020 9:56:07 PM EDT
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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. 
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Posted: 6/19/2020 9:56:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I’ve had an iPhone for 12 years, I don’t remember that. 12 years ago DSL and cable were a thing you damn zoomer. 
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Posted: 6/19/2020 9:57:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Oh man, the day I went to 56.6, gaming was so much better. ever played Doom on a 14.4?
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Posted: 6/19/2020 9:57:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember the days before AOL. |
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Posted: 6/19/2020 9:59:17 PM EDT
[#35]
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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Posted: 6/19/2020 9:59:24 PM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Sure. High speed of 300 baud. I started in at 1200. |
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Posted: 6/19/2020 9:59:32 PM EDT
[#37]
Wish you guys knew about Ski Free
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Posted: 6/19/2020 10:00:39 PM EDT
[#38]
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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Posted: 6/19/2020 10:01:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: ever played Doom on a 14.4? Null modem cable FTW! |
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Posted: 6/19/2020 10:01:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 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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Posted: 6/19/2020 10:02:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember the days before AOL. My high school had a DARPANET connection. |
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Posted: 6/19/2020 10:03:55 PM EDT
[#42]
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 Indeed. |
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Posted: 6/19/2020 10:04:25 PM EDT
[#43]
I had a 300 baud, then a 1200, then a 4800, then a 14.4, 56k... seen it all.
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Posted: 6/19/2020 10:04:51 PM EDT
[#44]
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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Posted: 6/19/2020 10:05:19 PM EDT
[#45]
Compuserve.
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Posted: 6/19/2020 10:05:30 PM EDT
[#46]
I played DOOM on a 14.4.
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Posted: 6/19/2020 10:05:47 PM EDT
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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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Posted: 6/19/2020 10:06:35 PM EDT
[#48]
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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Posted: 6/19/2020 10:06:36 PM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Cause you’re a kid still. Quote HistoryQuoted: 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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Posted: 6/19/2020 10:09:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Wish you guys knew about Ski Free Oh shit. I had COMPLETELY forgot about that!! Throwback! |
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