I remember we discovered the shorter the phone cable the faster our connection would be. So my friend bought a 2 inch cable and we had the computer right up against the wall for that extra 2kbps
I was the one whose computer had the internet. The cruelest thing I ever did was get my friend, who had no computer at all, addicted to Ultima Online and EverQuest.
no idea, I just remember a dramatic increase in my online time around that period. Also my dad going around drilling holes everywhere so that we could run a cable to everyone's room back in the days when you assembled a PC from parts you found at a car boot sale
I remember occasionally seeing a 64k connection speed on the dialup at my parents' old place before they finally got broadband. No idea if it was accurate, as I understand 56k to be a physical limitation on phone lines, but it's what windows would claim at least.
When you entered, in the hallway there was a dedicated table that had a landline phone and paper phonebook on it. Possibly a pack of cigarettes and a lighter too.
That time when you had to wait for the image to load line by line only to realize, her boobs where covered, and the utter disappointed of the image either being cropped or she was wearing pants.
That was 2 fold. We did what this post talks about, but i also knew what diablo 2 did to me, and knew i couldnt own WoW or I'd flunk out of high school
Ahh.... Hanging with friends gathered around a PC and trolling pedos on AIM. So weird that age, sex, and location were the primary opening lines of communication for a while. Even stranger that creepy dudes in their 40s were so honest about it while trying to pick up kids on the Internet.
Honestly, if my parents had any idea how many creeps were on AOL, I probably would’ve been banned from it. We’re like the “grew up with no seatbelts and survived” version of internet users.
I remember letting my brother’s friend use my computer and he reprogrammed my DOS boot sequence to play a (very simple) bleepy version of the teenage mutant ninja turtles theme song & then type out “TURTLE POWER” on the DOS prompt.
You must mean it will still be normal in 2010, which is the far future when we’ll have colonised Mars and use our flying cars to go home to our floating home in the clouds.
I remember that one year a generic magazine put out the Christmas edition with a multimedia CD, with various stuff on it, some simple games and other crap, but by browsing the disk (the secret art of skipping autoplay by right-clicking and selecting Open) we found a grainy jpg with a naked Asian lady with fake boobs. Treasure!
No shit. Everyone brings over their computer. For me my first network was the lan party net. It was 10base 2. Invariably at least one time a meet someone would kick a coax cable loose and we would lose the whole network. Thinking about it we didn't have the name lan party when we first started having them. We called it playing warcraft 2.
No, cause I was the friend with the computer. My dad worked in computers, so we had a computer in the eighties and internet in (I think) 1995. We got cable internet really early too, and my first username was “guywithcable”.
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I remember we discovered the shorter the phone cable the faster our connection would be. So my friend bought a 2 inch cable and we had the computer right up against the wall for that extra 2kbps
now this is podracing!
i remember this vividly. going to my friend's house to watch the badger song, etc.
MUSHROOM MUSHROOM
SNAAAAAKEEEEE!!
I was the one whose computer had the internet. The cruelest thing I ever did was get my friend, who had no computer at all, addicted to Ultima Online and EverQuest.
Ew the OG bot farming game
MUDs existed long before UO.
Yeah I guess you're right
I would raise and contort my hand in sync with the dial-up tones when my friend was around to convince them I was a shaman
"One does not simply access the worldy wider web, my child. You have to sing to it."
When was the last time you heard the storm? '96 for me. Had either a T1 or DSL connection after that.
back in '12 for me, we switched to cable and suddenly we had a landline and internet at the same time -- it was genuinely crazy
Wow! That's crazy late to have still been using dialup. Did they ever get better than 56k baud?
no idea, I just remember a dramatic increase in my online time around that period. Also my dad going around drilling holes everywhere so that we could run a cable to everyone's room back in the days when you assembled a PC from parts you found at a car boot sale
I remember occasionally seeing a 64k connection speed on the dialup at my parents' old place before they finally got broadband. No idea if it was accurate, as I understand 56k to be a physical limitation on phone lines, but it's what windows would claim at least.
When you entered, in the hallway there was a dedicated table that had a landline phone and paper phonebook on it. Possibly a pack of cigarettes and a lighter too.
Answering machine with the cute little cassette
That time when you had to wait for the image to load line by line only to realize, her boobs where covered, and the utter disappointed of the image either being cropped or she was wearing pants.
This but gaming instead.
As in, whatching our friend play aoe2 or something.
To be fair it's exactly the same as watching a streamer, minus the parasocial relationship.
I used to watch my buddy play WoW.
That was 2 fold. We did what this post talks about, but i also knew what diablo 2 did to me, and knew i couldnt own WoW or I'd flunk out of high school
Ahh.... Hanging with friends gathered around a PC and trolling pedos on AIM. So weird that age, sex, and location were the primary opening lines of communication for a while. Even stranger that creepy dudes in their 40s were so honest about it while trying to pick up kids on the Internet.
I remember (as a girl) wanting to talk to another girl my age in a chatroom. The rest of the room started asking if I was a lesbian.
Like we couldn’t just talk to people online without bringing sex into it. I just wanted to make some friends.
Honestly, if my parents had any idea how many creeps were on AOL, I probably would’ve been banned from it. We’re like the “grew up with no seatbelts and survived” version of internet users.
I mean, my parents freaked out about Smurfs and Phil Collins. We never had Internet in the house. They would have lost their minds.
Anyway ASL? 31 M AUS
12/F/Langley, VA
50/M/MAGA/Priest, 7/11 in 5, codeword: JoeBidden6969
This was the standard answer. Or was it 19?
Wait are you me?
I could be, there's a non zero chance we're a schizophrenic interacting with ourselves online and not know
Was that a pedo thing? I always assumed it was just teenagers.
Parents certainly thought it was a pedo thing, and while there certainly were some nefarious adults it was mostly just teenagers.
I remember letting my brother’s friend use my computer and he reprogrammed my DOS boot sequence to play a (very simple) bleepy version of the teenage mutant ninja turtles theme song & then type out “TURTLE POWER” on the DOS prompt.
Using your daily moves in Tradewars 2002...
We would ride our bikes to the library because their connection was faster and we could sit next to each other.
Dude that tank game brings back memories. The old 3D vector graphics tank game right?
The one with just the green lines? If so, Battle Zone, fucking classic.
Yeah that’s the one! Just a black screen, green lines, and simple shapes
Weird, my 286 had a 2400 baud modem
Ah, the good ol’ days, when my friend’s computer would get jacked up from Bonzai Buddy because she thought it was too cute.
I thought it was weird and didn’t care for it, so I never put it on my family’s computer. After it was discovered to be spyware, I felt vindicated.
it's not that old, it was still normal in 2010
You must mean it will still be normal in 2010, which is the far future when we’ll have colonised Mars and use our flying cars to go home to our floating home in the clouds.
I used to play Doom with 2 other friends on the same keyboard. One moving, one firing and one (the most bored) opening doors and activating buttons.
OG multiplayer Doom.
We polished the prop to 28k in my full digits year. There better be 7 of us 28'ers here or we have failed - rule
I remember that one year a generic magazine put out the Christmas edition with a multimedia CD, with various stuff on it, some simple games and other crap, but by browsing the disk (the secret art of skipping autoplay by right-clicking and selecting Open) we found a grainy jpg with a naked Asian lady with fake boobs. Treasure!
All the time! Showing each other the cool sites we'd found. Messing with settings.
you're the man now dog
two words, LAN party.
No shit. Everyone brings over their computer. For me my first network was the lan party net. It was 10base 2. Invariably at least one time a meet someone would kick a coax cable loose and we would lose the whole network. Thinking about it we didn't have the name lan party when we first started having them. We called it playing warcraft 2.
We used those coax cables at school. Each row had a terminator. I don't think I've ever seen it elsewhere.
I still have a terminator around here somewhere. No reason really. I just cant bring myself to throw it away.
No, cause I was the friend with the computer. My dad worked in computers, so we had a computer in the eighties and internet in (I think) 1995. We got cable internet really early too, and my first username was “guywithcable”.
Unknowingly, son of u/fatpipe & u/maxbaud
I'm only just enough old for the Wii lmao
That's an abnormal amount
Yeah my house was one of the ones with Computer
everybody coming over to watch the new smosh video
Modem Wars
First "online" game I played (over 300 buad modem)
Was the screen green?