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Jun 30, 2016 9:04 AM
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ShowMeYourButtonhole
mittag
Pshhhkkkkkkrrrr kakingkakingkakingtsh chchchchchchchcch *ding*ding*ding*
sydneygirl
I used to the neighbour's house to print because they had a COLOUR printer! Also phone ringing when you just got on and getting bumped off!
Eyebolt
Woohoo... My 38th busy signal!
elfes92
One of the most irritating noises aswell as the wait
I always lost patience
voidshadow
The interruption to the fapping while waiting for the next pic to load was excruciating!
Mondheller
That reminds me I need to feed my neopet
DoNotLookForValidationOnTheInternet
*Forgets to turn volume down* WELCOME YOU GOT MAIL!!
Modem085
Sound was the best. Thanks to Jamba you could have your ringtone like this.
mangiamangia
the horn of shame at 1am
tornadosandwich
Eh back then there wasn't really anything good on the Internet anyway
imgrugsi
AssBat
I am making this comment via FTP to an address I heard on mIRC in a channel I read about on a phpBB.
chrisCheeseMonster
Ah, so glad they improved it, alot. Those things took forever
BananaForBreakfast
I have no idea...
TheBigLittleDipper
Ugh stop delaying my hands on time
CheapBeerAndBadDecisions
JudgeRhymehold
Can totally save one frame of medium quality gif!
LoveLillie
AuroraNora33
Pretty sure this is satire
CheapBeerAndBadDecisions
I'm sure it is, but I'm also sure there are plenty of people now that don't know why the save button looks like that
TheMomaw
So many hours spent on IRC while waiting for files to download at a couple of kbytes/s
Cheomesh
IRC, the multiplayer notepad.
AmiAthena
Also, getting to "insert disc 43 of 47" and realizing you can't find it.
JudgeRhymehold
Ugg. And spending all weekend watching it
elduquedelaspasas
I remember installing Windows from discs, missing last one. Turns out I'd left it on my dad's car under sunlight and it was melting.
ifrybaconnaked
Oh the pain!
SauronsLeftNut
Ahhhh Disks, i would have loved disks!!!! i remember the cassette recorder plugged into comp, and the volume control doing nothing.
parkanov
and then you do!!!!! but then you get a read/write error and you hear the distant laughter of the damaged sector-fairy
OFKSGVN
Once went a tiny bit crazy and ripped the cords out of my speakers when I attempted to connect for 5 minutes...
Eyebolt
19.2k...better try again for that sweet 28.8
Steelwind
It's 2am and you want to sneak on to check a BBS for new posts... let me sing you the song of my people. *screeeeeee*
nikiitea
Kroooooooo...krrsssshhhh...toing.do.toi.doiiing..boop
Flowerblossm
This is literally my ring tone
Ouroborus
I remember it being more like "Dee de deee? bee bee beeEEEEEEEEEkrsssssshhhhh bwaaAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGHHHHKRSSSSSSSSHHHHHH" for 56k anyway.
thingifound
I think it's so fucking cool to be able to "hear" the internet on the old dial up days. Really pushed me for my networking degree in schokl
rIOsK
+++ATH0
CommentsWithGandalf
This. This is why I cut the wire to the speaker on the modem.
iLynux
I thought the sound was analog, generated from the hardware itself, not a digital audio signal.
CommentsWithGandalf
My modem was for an ISA slot and it had a big, black, round speaker on it. I snipped one of the wires, assuming it was just like 1/2
CommentsWithGandalf
The old PC speakers you plugged into the motherboard. It worked. No more dialup or handshake sound.
tangybreath
We never had any sort of working speaker and we still got the sound.
ArtyMorty
The real connoisseurs found out how to mute the modem.
ScootyPuffSr
To hell with that. ATL3. Jack tje sound barrier, bring thr noise.
Thor400
At m0;Atdp 4544040
AbsolutelyZer0
ATDP ... I remember when i finally got a tone line and could speed ATDT
stealthgunner385
Bless you, AT M0 command.
AddictedToCycling
THIS. MUCH MUCH THIS.
ChloeRed
setting m0 was your friend :)
Eyebolt
Hang up the phone, I may got connected!
thatswhatshesaid85
I just really miss AIM hahaha
grimchuck
I remember all those "free internet for Life" offers... What were they thinking?
notme222
I wish I could have been in the room when NetZero realized they had to cancel their "Shouldn't internet be free?" ads and start charging.
Cheomesh
4 years ago, NetZero still had 3/4 million on dialup.
zacletus
4 years ago my ISP finished full fiber to home network (only 20down/1up for basic, now 60/3).. couldnt imagine still being stuck with dialup
Cheomesh
Considering a staggeringly vast majority of the planet probably hasn't touched a computer, *shrug*
toloc
https://www.dialupso">und.com/">https://www.dialupsound.com/ http://www.56k-emulator.co.uk/ The good old days... Glad that shit's over.
ShowMeYourButtonhole
Awesome.
CAPSLOCKISALWAYSONSORRY
THANKS!
TharrickLawson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTos3CsvnLQ
itslegonotlegos
Ahhhh memories
EscarFrazzle
It'd be slower today then it was back then tho because of the massive amount of shit to load that weren't on pages back then.
ironballsmcginty
56K? That's highspeed - I started out with a 300 baud wedge modem on a commodore 64
PianoMan2112
waiting for the ASCII art boobs to draw (on the plus side, the connect sounds were a pretty chord, not static)
Cheomesh
We'll say the same about cable soon enough.
rizion
Shut the fuck up we all know there was nothing good about waiting hours for a pic of tits to load and then halfway someone pics up the phone
toloc
There was a certain thrill to it... Starting to load, getting closer, nearly done... But that is just nostalgia speaking
rizion
That thrill, its called blue balls and it is unhealthy
AmiAthena
We used to wait 20 minutes for one still image. Now we ignore ads with actual sex acts looping in HD.
randomthug
I remember my first 28.8 baud man that thing was smoking fast. Although I think I upgraded before i started playing C&C and Warcraft online
Cheomesh
ONE VISION, ONE PURPOSE!
randomthug
God damn those video's were awesome. KANE LIVES!
Cheomesh
*roaring cheers*
sep35150
When I started out, the limit was 110 baud. I was amazed when 300 baud finally came out.
randomthug
God I don't remember the real early days to much. I recall an Apple IIe and playing Pole Position on my atari.
Cataleast
"Dude! You got ISDN? SWEEET!", he types on his 110/20mbit cable & a computer, whose integrated audio chip is faster than the CPUs back then.
randomthug
I tested out Cable Internet in my area when I was middleschool/freshman. Wasn't for sale I was part of the test market, I was god.
randomthug
No one was on it. Just a few of us who got lucky and chosen. I immediately became a dump site for a warez group. So many cd's....
randomthug
I remember the first 20 gig hard drive I bought for over 200 bucks. It was epic and cut down on the hundreds of burned cds..
Cataleast
It pains me to look at my purchase history of an online store I use - a 40GB HDD in 2002, $150... :D
ElephantNipplesAreWeird
Those were the days. Now I feel old!
TECHNICALLYC0RRECT
I remember throwing a shitfit when we started to switch to URLs. "Why do we have to memorize that, when we can just key in an IPA?"
AmiAthena
I remember seeing some billboards and TV ads with "visit us online! (IP)" and thinking "we need to spell phone numbers, dude."
AmiAthena
No way we were going to remember a bunch of IP addresses when we needed help with 1-800-222-3334
ElephantNipplesAreWeird
You lost me there buddy. Lol!
TECHNICALLYC0RRECT
Once upon a time, when you wanted to go to www.imgur.com, you would type 199.27.76.193.
ElephantNipplesAreWeird
Interesting. I don't remember that.
TECHNICALLYC0RRECT
Well, obviously that particular example didn't exist twenty years ago. I don't remember when the push for URL started.