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It's my cakeday, i feel older now. Thanks imgur!
Aug 24, 2017 8:03 AM
midasf
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It's my cakeday, i feel older now. Thanks imgur!
CakeDaySenderKit
Happy Cake Day!
paintmelikeyourfrenchgirls
So accurate. I'm gonna show this to my 8 year old. He's not gonna get it at all.
9x19
AllTheGoodOnesWereGone
I can still illuminate the Carrier Detect light on a 300 baud acoustic coupler by whistling into it.
karebear1093
it's my cakeday too :D
joe40001
TedTheMan
Well done, a year of not getting banned.
EveryUsernameIsTaken4
I only had internet when I was a teenager. Weird to think a part of my life internet didn't exist.
madjo
Back in my day, there was only 1 pc in the entire school with internet access; it was off limits for students. And wifi was misspelled hifi.
ALLOC247
http://imgur.com/KMPInLh
Broken08
Today is my cake day too!
MotherPhuckinPterradawn
Pssst, your cake day is when you joined Imgur.
giveittomestraightlikeapearcidermadefrom100percentpears
Aged 12-15, getting on the internet at 1am without waking my parents up was the tensest i've ever felt. Perspiration dripping off my brow.
sneaker2
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rockfireman
Ugh all I wanted was a happy family reunion and so far we've gotten this.
sezwat
Skittleballs
I'm JUST old enough to know the feeling. Also, getting off the Internet when mum wanted to do a phone call!
syndraconis
See this is what I get for not reading comments before replying. Glad to see it was an international issue
MrMcFartington
The good old aol days
LemmingAttack
I feel like I should carry around a recording of what it sounded like to connect to the internet for the kids who don't know.
PresidentSkroob
it's true.... lots of pornpics failed on me
Bigcurly2000
When I first got an internet capable computer that noise was incredibly exciting. Gonna get some cheats!
NonEntity309
Cheatcc.com doing the Lord's work
Minaris
back when games actually had cheat codes and that website was more than a glorified tips and tricks provider.
syndraconis
Get off the internet, I need to make a phone call!
WellThatsOriginal
"I'm on the fucking phone!" Every Mom in the 90s
shadowex3
DEEE DEE DEEE dooo doo dooo DEEeerrrrr DEEEeerrrrr KSHHHHHHHHHShhhhhhhSHSHHHHHHHH
OfficialBenderRodriguez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0
prfesser
When I was a boy the internet was paper notes you folded into triangles and tossed across the classroom to someone else. Oh, and we (1/2)
prfesser
searched by looking through a bunch of dead trees, ground up and pressed flat, with printing on them. I am centuries old (2/2)
Ouroborus
If you sent the modem the ata command with a terminal and then yelled into the phone, sometimes it would say "Connect 200"
trumpypumpyinyourrumpy
Another interesting old dial up fact - you could tell by the sounds and timing if it was successful or not. Then you had to redial
Ouroborus
You c ould also tell roughly what speed your connection was... Oh god I'm old.
wolfsbane3083
Bing bing bing bing bing bing bing bing bong, bing bong bing bong bing, SCHHHSCHHHSCHHHSCHHHHHHHHHSCHHHHHHHSCHHHHHHHHHSCHHHHHHHHSCHHHHHHHHHH
hammersquirrel
I thought that was the new Korki Buchek song
sonianosia
when you heard that "SCHHHSCHHHSCHHHSCHHHHHHHHHSCHHHHHHHSCHHHHHHHHHSCHHHHHHHHSCHHHHHHHHHH" you knew you got lucky!
thornmallow
Welcome, you got mail.
sonianosia
ah... aol...i worked for them..that customer service job almost made me go crazy
Tubularballs
Man, I hate being old enough to get this joke. I'm gonna go do a penny-farthing routine on my grandpa to feel better.
swisstraeng
that's fax's sounds when heard trough a phone right?
oscillatingdogfan
You know what I remember? Having to check the number it was gonna connect to constantly to make sure you didn't get a dial-up virus.
Srslythoguys
You could be 20 and still get that joke. But you're right, super old.
toxicchili
You know you are really old when you had to listen to this sound just to play a game
Srslythoguys
Oh dang.
Zantumal
I'm 17 but get this because of Office Depot
ProximaCentaur
Umm 20 somethings remember dialup. I like to think of it and how far we've come.
TheAuthorOfTheJournalsMyBrother
I'm a dirty millennial, born in 2002, and I get it
bigbrother
I learned in 2012 that the local junior college had a dial-up system for the handful of people who refused to upgrade.
forgivemekidunzipspants
I kinda miss dial up. It took 3 minutes for a pic to load so you could go make chcolate while your boobs load
Monka42
I got tired of making chocolate 45 times a day though
OMygodLook
Make chocolate?
forgivemekidunzipspants
Chocolate drink i meant but 140 characters ya know?
swagb98623
Prior to making a hand-shandy
OMygodLook
Sandy cheeks?