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When the internet was young...

Postby EGNX » Mon Oct 22, 2007 10:48 am

... Behind the scenes of one of the first dial-up ISP's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgqEIp2YmtE

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Re: When the internet was young...

Postby Ashar » Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:10 am

God how I hated that sound...Still makes me cringe...Thank god I have broadband ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Re: When the internet was young...

Postby john_uk » Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:38 am

lol. monkey dust is just awesome!
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Re: When the internet was young...

Postby Mushroom_Farmer » Mon Oct 22, 2007 2:24 pm

That seemed to be a lot of numbers for dial-up.
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Re: When the internet was young...

Postby Fozzer » Mon Oct 22, 2007 2:34 pm

...takes me back to the heady days of listening to the Tape Recorder Data being transferred to my Sinclair Spectrum 48k Computer on 1982...

Happy times.. :)...!

Dial-up Tones is a modern invention... ;D...!

F...."Load Failure"...Buggar!....Re-wind... ::)...!

P.S. ..thanks for the Link...Saved it in "Fun Stuff"...
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Re: When the internet was young...

Postby TacitBlue » Mon Oct 22, 2007 3:47 pm

Here's some irony for you. I can't watch that video because I'm on dial-up... ::)
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Re: When the internet was young...

Postby a1 » Mon Oct 22, 2007 4:06 pm

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Scary....so scary. :o
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Re: When the internet was young...

Postby alrot » Mon Oct 22, 2007 4:08 pm

Very Scary Indeed ,I still feel like if it was yesterday
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Re: When the internet was young...

Postby spitfire boy » Mon Oct 22, 2007 4:11 pm

I remember it used to be a treat to be allowed to go on the internet.... ;D ;D
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Re: When the internet was young...

Postby Ashar » Mon Oct 22, 2007 4:54 pm

I remember it used to be a treat to be allowed to go on the internet.... ;D ;D


Yeah, my parents had this 56K connection in around the year 1997...Being in India, we didn't have access to broadband...And it used to take ages for the pages to load...Rather annoying at time  :D
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Re: When the internet was young...

Postby Ravang » Tue Oct 23, 2007 7:31 pm

I remember it used to be a treat to be allowed to go on the internet.... ;D ;D


Yeah, my parents had this 56K connection in around the year 1997...Being in India, we didn't have access to broadband...And it used to take ages for the pages to load...Rather annoying at time  :D

It sounds like me until last year (now on DSL) ;D 10 mins to load the homepage :P, and that god-awful sound >:(
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Re: When the internet was young...

Postby BFMF » Fri Oct 26, 2007 3:16 pm

Here's some irony for you. I can't watch that video because I'm on dial-up... ::)


I know how you feel. a 28.8 Kbps connection is a good day for me... :-[
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Re: When the internet was young...

Postby Wii » Fri Oct 26, 2007 11:14 pm

I run my internet on a T1+ router. It's fastest of the fast.



NOTE: I said FAST not RELIABLE


We might be switching to dialup if our internet issues aren't ressolved (NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!)
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Re: When the internet was young...

Postby Wii » Fri Oct 26, 2007 11:16 pm

Here's some irony for you. I can't watch that video because I'm on dial-up... ::)


I know how you feel. a 28.8 Kbps connection is a good day for me... :-[

Mine is 10,000KBPS+
It should be running WAY faster than that >:(
Sorry to hear about that.
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