1. Being envious that your buddy had DSL.
2. 600 baud modems
3. CompuServe
4. The sound of dial-up.......
2. 600 baud modems
3. CompuServe
4. The sound of dial-up.......
Remember the old days (of the internet)?
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Starting a download when you went to bed and hoped it didn't error out!
15 minutes for a song? You must have had a speedy connection, lol. I used to about pee my pants if my download speed went above 5kb lmao. Now I'm on a 1G Fiber connection lmao.
Downloading a picture taken from a potato took hours.
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Yes chat rooms, prodigy, downloading, times etc.
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Oh boy
Using Limewire and looking for those DSL, T1, T2, and T3 connections from the providers. I remember visiting a friend at UW and upon learning that their dorms were wired with T3, and in disbelief, going on a music downloading spree lol.
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Yep! I also remember when an ordering window opened online for certain items. Within seconds you'd be among thousands of others whose connection froze due to the heavy traffic. So you'd retry the order, often by repeat hits of the PLACE ORDER button. Sometimes you got lucky, but usually you'd have to start all over again. It was frantic at best. And then the infamous message......item is sold out!
Aww I 'member!
I remember being in high school, using a keylogger to nab the admin password, disabling Deepfreeze, installing Java on certain computer lab PCs, and playing the original Runescape whenever I wanted. My grades didn't really suffer- I was the slacker that did zero studying/hw and did fine on most tests.
I also remember being the only guy that knew how to compress a 128kbps mp3 to fit onto a 1.44mb floppy. My father taught me DOS when I was 3, so I'd pull up DOS in W97 and everyone thought I was some kind of hacker. Pffft.
I didn't have the internet at home until I was a sophomore in college.
Does anyone remember the old Pentium commercials? Pre-blue-man-group?
I remember being in high school, using a keylogger to nab the admin password, disabling Deepfreeze, installing Java on certain computer lab PCs, and playing the original Runescape whenever I wanted. My grades didn't really suffer- I was the slacker that did zero studying/hw and did fine on most tests.
I also remember being the only guy that knew how to compress a 128kbps mp3 to fit onto a 1.44mb floppy. My father taught me DOS when I was 3, so I'd pull up DOS in W97 and everyone thought I was some kind of hacker. Pffft.
I didn't have the internet at home until I was a sophomore in college.
Does anyone remember the old Pentium commercials? Pre-blue-man-group?
I remember the jingle that Pentium used during the late 90's that
Duh duh.............duh
Duh duh.............duh
Anyone ever use mIRC for chat rooms? This was in the late 90's. Some websites had chat rooms via Java etc. But you could use the mIRC program to go into those chats and have many other options.
Newbs. I had a Commodore 64 in 1980, then an ibm pc jr in 1980 when you had to set your phone on the internet receiver ( it was called compuserve). I also had an HBO box that sat on top of my 13 channel tv that you had to switch on. Back then HBO came on at 8pm, showed 2 movies then went off.
My parents still have earthlink email addresses.
Oh man, I remember playing Airborne Ranger and Aliens with a C64 I found while moving when I was in the early teens. Good times!
Oh and learning that your parents weren't mind readers. They were in fact just looking at this thing called browser history lol.
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