Mrrrrrrr meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep. Murrrrrrrrrr weeeerrrrr MWOM MWOM mreeeeee meomrmrmrmrmmmmrrrr
(8 digit number because Europe)
Yes, we really did have to download things uphill both ways back then. I remember leaving the computer on overnight to download a game that was, like, 40 mb.
In the morning I got there and it had crashed at like 98% lol
My dad was pissed at me for “wasting electricity” the real OG data center hater over here.
And then it would finally connect, and your sibling would pick up the phone and start dialling…
Aaaaaaargh!
I remember way, way back in the days of dialup a very tech savvy friend had emailed me 20+ files, because I was the only one capable of stitching an image together. Took forever (days?) to download the files, and I had to redownload more than once due to roommates doing fun stuff like picking up the other phone line… (It was of his truck after hitting a moose.) Of course, I didn’t get to see the image until he got home, I had a Hercules monitor, he had a fancy one that did actual graphics.
I’m from the before-times, where loading a single EGA screen in 4 colours took a good twenty seconds from a floppy drive. Printer was dot matrix. Internet was something mythical only possessed by the extremely elite or academia. You better believe I’m still astonished when I see a 4K game load in 3 seconds from an NVMe drive.
I believe broadband is, generally, a net negative for the human species.
Its always on, leading to a constant conveyor belt of fresh horrors.
Its always on, so theres no seperation from internet and anything else, because you can’t just log out of the internet anymore.
High speed/Always on internet means goods we used to own physically and use as we please, have been converted into goods we just perpetually rent and can be taken from us at any time.
always on broadband was genuinely the turning point in ruining the internet.
It’s what brought internet to the masses. That’s what always kills <any subject>.
Back when your computer picked up the phone and called some machine far away.
Those AOL CDs you got in the mail.
Gatekeeping is a downvote
There was a time when you either had phone service or internet. But not both at the same time.
I BEGGED my mother for a second line, so I could stay online longer, but she wouldn’t get one :(
And if some bastard tried calling you when you were on the internet, they weren’t your friend any more.
There was a code you could use when dialing your provider to disable the 2nd call tone for a call. Put that in your phone number for dialing and your friends would get a busy signal, as god intended.
edit: that still exists, *70
I remember this and I complain about wifi. Americans are getting scammed on internet speed.
I recognise that isn’t MS Sans Serif, that text is also anti-aliased and has kerning.
Unfortunately I DO know this image…
I remember images loading one line at a time and I get irritated at less than 40Mbps.
Set phasers to BONK!
I can still hear that image.
Christ, that sound lives rent free in my head
Limitations of available technology at the time =/= limitations generally caused by shitty ISPs and/or IT teams not maintaining their infrastructure and equipment properly.
