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Posted: 10/14/2023 11:33:33 AM EDT
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We used to have "Shotgun Modems".
Two phone lines and dual 14.4 modems. Later upgraded to dual 56k modems. Was a real screamer! 
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Posted: 10/14/2023 11:33:44 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: ASCII porn on a 300 baud audio coupler modem.   
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Posted: 10/14/2023 11:36:10 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember trolls would sometimes post pics like that to BBS boards just to frustrate you. Hahahaha Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember trolls would sometimes post pics like that to BBS boards just to frustrate you. Hahahaha  |
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Posted: 10/14/2023 11:39:01 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My friend spent hours downloading a picture that turned out to be a priest pointing his finger at him and a caption about how you shouldn't be looking at porn. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I remember trolls would sometimes post pics like that to BBS boards just to frustrate you. Hahahaha  Attached File |
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Posted: 10/14/2023 11:40:36 AM EDT
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 Learned BASIC on a TRS-80 equipped with a 600 baud cradle modem. Fancy! |
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Posted: 10/14/2023 11:42:00 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuote HistoryOf course it would be Chokey. |
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Posted: 10/14/2023 11:44:15 AM EDT
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I remember right clicking "open in new window" on multiple links at a time, then walking away to do something else while things loaded.
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Posted: 10/14/2023 11:44:19 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 28.8K was my first modem. It would take 3-4 hours a photograph. Didn’t take nearly that long when I had a 28.8 modem. Of course, the pictures were 800x600 at most. |
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Posted: 10/14/2023 11:45:43 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We used to have "Shotgun Modems". Two phone lines and dual 14.4 modems. Later upgraded to dual 56k modems. Was a real screamer! I remember doing this... |
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Posted: 10/14/2023 11:48:31 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You think lag is your ally? I was born with dialup, molded by it. I didn't see the bottom of a jpeg until I was a man. Well done. |
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Posted: 10/14/2023 11:52:47 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/14/2023 12:11:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryI hate that dog. Because of this  Attached File Attached FileBings new Artificial Karen from OpenAI |
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Posted: 10/14/2023 12:19:12 PM EDT
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 And then there were these guys...  |
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Posted: 10/14/2023 12:21:20 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/14/2023 12:23:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I hate that dog. Because of this https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/327887/msedge_cS78VHi4Qq_png-2991221.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/327887/msedge_Pl0Z4IdY49_png-2991222.JPG Bings new Artificial Karen from OpenAI 
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Posted: 10/14/2023 12:25:15 PM EDT
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300baud master race checking in
 Looking back on it, I remember playing online games in the 28.8/56k era(1999,2000). Pretty damn amazing. No idea how we survived
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Posted: 10/14/2023 12:31:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 300baud master race checking in Looking back on it, I remember playing online games in the 28.8/56k era(1999,2000). Pretty damn amazing. No idea how we survived When DSL was just starting to make it to our city my apartment was on a small switch which they would not add the hardware to because it was expensive and specialized for small switches. I would play 56k and get like 60-120ms pings because my dialup was on the same teleco company the university used where my friend would set up a CS server. It was pretty awesome. I am sure they eventually got dsl to my apartment (god knows I would call like every month) but I ended up getting a cable modem the day they were released in my area. I started on 2400 then 14.4 and finally 56k. |
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Posted: 10/14/2023 12:55:58 PM EDT
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started on 2400 baud back in 91 during the BBS era. When I went off to college in 93, had 19.2k baud connection to the internet via a non standard network system built into the dorm. By 95, myself and a few buddies scrounged up some 3com ISA 10base-2 network cards, setup a LAN, and tapped into the network in one of the dorm computer labs so we all had direct high speed internet access from our PC's, which was mind blowing revolutionary at the time. I wouldn't see direct internet speeds as fast what I had in 95 for probably another 10 years.
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Posted: 10/14/2023 12:58:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My dad was working at Radio Shack in the early 80s. I don't remember what was before a 9600 modem but pretty sure we had it. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: 28.8K was my first modem. It would take 3-4 hours a photograph. My dad was working at Radio Shack in the early 80s. I don't remember what was before a 9600 modem but pretty sure we had it. Downloading my emails would take several minutes. |
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Posted: 10/14/2023 12:58:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: alt.binaries |
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Posted: 10/14/2023 1:01:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Lol! I'm 2400 baud modem old. This. Going from it to the blazing, incredible speed of a 14.4 was something. |
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Posted: 10/14/2023 1:03:57 PM EDT
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Oh yeah, I got on AOL in the early 90’s as a kid and remember it taking forever as a teen on my Gateway lol.
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Posted: 10/14/2023 1:11:27 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/14/2023 1:14:41 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/14/2023 1:53:57 PM EDT
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14.4K was the first internet that I paid for in the early nineties. "Earthlink" 28.8K appeared shortly after. Photos were slow but they did download eventually. Lots of compression artifacts on those early nudie pics. Dots and blurring.
 We had a dial up modem when I was in high school but since I didn't pay for it, I don't know what the speed was. Prob 4800 or 9600 bit. We had an early 386 pc that my brother bought. Was almost useless for downloading any large photos or video.  Man as soon as cable modems got into the mix... 
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