I really wish I could show kids how we hooked up to the internet back in the day

[Jayburner]

no wifi..no cable modem. Just plain old nasty dial up modems. You want to download that mp3. That'll take you an hour lol. Want to load that image..thats another hour. you better hope no one is phoning home.

It's crazy to think how far we have advanced since then.

[lokithor]

I kinda my prodigy bulletin boards. nudie pics would be half done downloading and then the phone rings lol.

[lockedout]

My buddy had one of these.

[Jayburner]

I must admit I was pretty lucky back in the day. I was one of the first cable modem users in Ontario.

[Radio]

We kept using dial-up for at least a few more years after ADSL/Cable became mainstream. Shit sucked.

[GennGreymane]

Oh, Jay. You know these kids will be a bad influence on you.

[Jayburner]

Oh, Jay. You know these kids will be a bad influence on you.

I just find it crazy how people are so attached to their internet now. I'm no better.

[Tradewind]

Start your fap when you found a picture you liked the sound of, try to time it to finish when it loads.

#Just28800baudthings.

[LaserSharkDFB]

Start your fap when you found a picture you liked the sound of, try to time it to finish when it loads.

#Just28800baudthings.

28800 baud? Pictures? Ha! We had a 300 baud modem and liked it! ASCII graphics at 1 character per second. Uphill both ways.

[Jayburner]

Start your fap when you found a picture you liked the sound of, try to time it to finish when it loads.

#Just28800baudthings.

HAHAHAH! thats awesome dude.

[minteK917]

Nothing like quake 2 on 56k. Before that simply loading a picture on 19.2, mom was always on the god daaamn phone too, why couldnt they invent cellphone first so i had a free line as a teenager, i had to use underwear model to jerk it most of the time.

[Jayburner]

Nothing like quake 2 on 56k.

yep It was either great or a nightmare.

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trying to hook up with girls on ICQ. your cyber sex game better be on point if you wanted to get lucky.

[Arenis]

I remember playing runescape on dial-up, getting disconnected every 30 mins or so. I died so much....

[Hotmail]

Do you guys remember how the basic internet downloader couldn't handle interruptions? If you lost your connection or wanted to pause a download for whatever reason well too bad you lost your file, and goddamn downloads took forever back in the day.

Then this little gem came out:



GetRight could recover download progress up to a certain point and even had a Pause function. That's right, a Pause button was something to be grateful for. Those were the days.

[Celista]

Pure nostalgia:
And we had to walk uphill both ways through the snow just to load a low pixel count gif, let alone any nice images.

Irrelevant, the processing and graphics capabilities of computers 15-20 years ago made a difference to your overall browsing experience (not just how long it took you to make an initial connection). That video was clearly done on a current machine and was way faster than the buttload of time it took for screens to load back in the day.

Things have improved significantly but I'm not sure this warranted its own thread on the topic, it wasn't THAT long ago.

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My buddy had one of these.

I don't even know what that is or what decade it is from.

[Jayburner]

Irrelevant, the processing and graphics capabilities of computers 15-20 years ago made a difference to your overall browsing experience (not just how long it took you to make an initial connection). That video was clearly done on a current machine and was way faster than the buttload of time it took for screens to load back in the day.

Things have improved significantly but I'm not sure this warranted its own thread on the topic, it wasn't THAT long ago.

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I don't even know what that is or what decade it is from.

you weren't a kid hooked to diablo in the late 90's.

[Molis]

I wish I could adopt my current household wifi to those speeds when the kids are being assholes.

I do not want to take away their internet. I want them to suffer.

[lockedout]

Irrelevant, the processing and graphics capabilities of computers 15-20 years ago made a difference to your overall browsing experience (not just how long it took you to make an initial connection). That video was clearly done on a current machine and was way faster than the buttload of time it took for screens to load back in the day.

Things have improved significantly but I'm not sure this warranted its own thread on the topic, it wasn't THAT long ago.

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I don't even know what that is or what decade it is from.

It's a modem.

[Jayburner]

It's a modem.

some kids will never understand the pain we went thru..no matter how many stats or pics you post.

[Ashkiman]

Back then if we wanted to fap we had to find a picture and prey to god it loads completely before phone rings, stupid kids fap with live full hd porn nowadays...