18 years later

[Lost in Love]

awww the big boxes ..now you got me going down memory lane.

[Deleted]

I remember my relatives (aunt/uncle) not being able to call us due to the phone line always being busy. Oh the memories of dial up. 28.8k ftw, oh wait disconnect someone touched the phone, nooooooooooooooooooo. Heck I remember the ATM-card (yes it was called that) we got for our first ADSL line with a massive 256kbit download, that was the beginning of real broadband internet for me at least.

[Mayhem]

"yeah, no no i´m downloading icq right this instant, what? yeah only 4h left! yes we have a faster modem now, it´s awesome!!"

[Asics]

I remember in 1997 downloading the Age of Empires trial version on whatever dial up we had. Took 72 hours (!!!), I was extremely lucky we had a 2nd phone line for phone calls.

For nostalgia's sake I actually found the same file the other day online. Download was instant, installation was instant. Was playing the same exact campaign I played as a 6 year old (and it still kicked my ass). Damn Egyptians.

[Sam the Wiser]

I remember how annoying dial use to sound. Also you couldn't be on the phone and computer at the same time.

[mizeri]

I remember in 1997 downloading the Age of Empires trial version on whatever dial up we had. Took 72 hours (!!!), I was extremely lucky we had a 2nd phone line for phone calls.

For nostalgia's sake I actually found the same file the other day online. Download was instant, installation was instant. Was playing the same exact campaign I played as a 6 year old (and it still kicked my ass). Damn Egyptians.

It was my first online gaming experience was the AOE trial lol, hmm I think steam got a AOE deal going on

[Shakadam]

Mhm 14,4 kbps back in the 90's...oh yeah.

And here I am today with a 100 mbps line, it's been quite an increase over the years.

Even the wireless connection for my phone (21 mbps) is roughly 1500 times faster than my first modem, heh :P

[Deleted]

The day I stopped having to wait for images to load almost line by line was one of the most awesome things on a computer.

Indeed, for some reason i always have cramps in my left hand after that moment...

[dacoolist]

I didn't have cable until 2000.. let me tell you how amazing it was:
A MAAAAZZZZINNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

[Deleted]

Still remember they day I got it, player Runescape for like 12 hours straight. Was mining ore to turn into arrows xD

[Tribunal]

Oh the battle between the internet and the telephone, I remember it well.

[Begrudge]

original rainbow six over the internet was like a time window into the future man

[Kapaya]

My earliest memory has to be when I used to get allowed about 20 minutes on the dial up, where I would go to Pokemon pages and download screenshots of Pokemon. I later saved all these on good old discs that had space for what, 1 MB? I had atleast 10 discs full of Pokemon pictures, and now it's all about 10 HDD's of pr0n . Where did it all go wrong???

[Ridesdel]

My earliest memory has to be when I used to get allowed about 20 minutes on the dial up, where I would go to Pokemon pages and download screenshots of Pokemon. I later saved all these on good old discs that had space for what, 1 MB? I had atleast 10 discs full of Pokemon pictures, and now it's all about 10 HDD's of pr0n . Where did it all go wrong???

well when the pokemon pics started to turn into pokepron, that's where it started to go wrong, from there it's all downhill.

[Deleted]

I was... 7 When i first got a computer, so 94/95 roughly.
I remember spending around 11 hours trying to figure out how to install Simon The Sorcerer to the pc, D:/Install/Simon The Sorcerer
WHYUNOWORK!!!

Internet... didnt get cable for quite a long time after it was first out, think my first cable modem was 512, and we were overjoyed when instead of seeing a song download at 15.5kb/s, it was at 120kb/s .... that made us all laugh with joy so much
Now i complain if i pull 800kb/s on my crappy broadband connection )

[Shmazard]

I didn't have a computer and internet till late 1998, it was a pantium 2 4megahtz cpu with 64 megs of ram lol, and man oh man so much porn was looked at that night 0_0

Dont you mean like 233mhz or higher? i had a Pentium 2 and it wasnt 4mhz...

[Nathiest]

18 years ago I had a dream of moving to California and becoming a professional movie and television extra. 18 years later and I still have that dream and 18 years from now assuming I'm still around I will still have that pathetic dream.

[Pachycrocuta]

I remember back in 1995, we got our first PC. It was a windows 3.1 machine, with 4 mb of Ram. Can't remember how much MB of hard-drive space it had. Maybe 250? We didn't get the internet until 1999 when I graduated high school. But we did have dial-up at the local library. I remember back in 1997, going to the library and using their internet to hop on a roleplay chat room called the Green Dragon Inn. I can't remember the first 3 digits of my ICQ number, but I remember the last 4: 0987. I still remember going to a geocities site to get the walkthrough of how to go on a date with Barret or Yuffie in FF7. Also, using Netscape for my browser, and excite for my search engine.

[error406]

MS-DOS using command lines to grab files.
The time before IE, outlook and all those other useless MS crap (MS paint was awesome tho) and 16 bit displays on IBM laptop.

[mizeri]

Dont you mean like 233mhz or higher? i had a Pentium 2 and it wasnt 4mhz...

hmm maybe it was 250 MHz, I forget but I know it was Pentium 2