How many of you also had to suffer through this era? What do you remember about it?
I remember it being paid per minute here. What a fucking scam.
>>108666232honesty though the internet was better back then. now it's wall to wall faggots.
This triggered a memory slightly later (in the DSL era), where I had a wireless network adapter and it was fucking huge and the reception was JUST enough that if I duct taped it to the top of my doorway I could maybe play Xbox Live with 800 ping until anything at all moved in the house.>>108666237In my region this didn't matter because AOL would send us like 10 discs a day with free hours on it lol
I remember waiting an hour for a 4 minute music video to buffer on youtube before it was owned by Jews.
iirc our first computer was a 120mhz packard bell with a 28.8k modem, later upgraded to 56k.what do I remember about the era? idk the usual stuff. the dialing noise, using netscape navigator. playing starcraft 1 and MUDs, using napster/kazaa/limewire. despite easily having the money for it my parents were very slow to care about the internet in general. nowadays of course you couldn't rip their phone or pc away from them like any other boomer but we had dialup for quite a while after cable started to become a thing and even then first switched to exceptionally shitty DSL for a while because it was cheaper.In fact they were so cheap about it we went through an era of free ad-supported dialup internet from "netzero" that would run a permanent banner ad on your pc in exchange for internet access. I had to run diablo 2 in a window because if you covered up the banner the internet would shut itself off.
Grandma had no internet but she did have dialup until about 2015 or so and before I had a smartphone for tethering purposes, I tried to use skype a few times over that dialup.Not for calling of course, just text, but even 2014's skype hardly worked on 26k or whatever it was.a decade later, I'm living here, and we have nearly a gigabit down...
I was only young. My mother was a stay at home wife. She was on the phone a tonne to her friends so the dial up would cut out and my games would disconnect.
>>108666335jd vance is that you?
>>108666237Since we were the only household in my area that actually had internet with a computer. We ended up with most of those damn free AOL discs from everyone and ended up barely ever paying for internet until we got broadband in 1999. I didn't notice things being too awfully slow as the webpages I browsed wasn't bloated at all and mostly just forums or old webpages from TV channels/shows, toys, video games, and basic chats. When we lost broadband in the early 2000s and had to go back to dial-up for a few months due to me ordering too many wrestling PPVs and eventually the cut off happened due to my household not paying the bills. I felt the pain of slowness by that point. Trying to torrent made me want to kill myself in contrast and I usually had to just leave things running all night just for pretty much an anime episode or two. Newgrounds was much slower to load than what I had come to be used to as well. At this stage I ended up going to use public computers where I'd walk to after school. Nobody fucked around with them and I could sit on them all evening. My town was behind the times and people honestly never caught on with desktops here. Eventually in the mid to late 2000s you actually started to see people around my age and random moms a little older than me finally adapting to laptops. Even in school nobody hardly did anything on the computers. Maybe the occasional flash website like candystand or something more normie at the time as such. The biggest problem I had with dial-up in the 90s personally was how often I had to get off during the day or early in the evening due to someone needing the phone.
>>108666232>What do you remember about it?>*phone rings*>"DO NOT PICK UP THE PHONE!"Then we got ISDN, which was two dial-up lines, so that you could use the internet and talk on the phone. Or you could use both for the internet and get double the speed of dial-up.
>>108666232My ISP offered dial-up until 2022. Their network was completely fiber-to-the-home by 2015. So there was a period where I could have had dial-up over fiber.
>>108666376The phone only got a busy signal if the internet was being used and we never got any incoming calls while I was browsing. Another reason why I was kicked off sometimes during parts of the day. If anyone was expecting a call I'd have to go do something else.
>>108666383>had dial-up over fiber.unfanthombly based
>>108666405>The phone only got a busy signal if the internet was being used and we never got any incoming calls while I was browsing.For us, the phone would ring even if you were using the internet. If someone picked up the phone the internet connection would drop, hence the reaction.>If anyone was expecting a call I'd have to go do something else.They had all day while I was at school to talk on the phone.
>>108666232I remember you clicked on the AOL icon on the cow looking gatway computer, a little phone dialpad came up and then it went beep beep beep beep beep beep beep and then modem sounds and you cant use the phoneI'm just kidding sorta, yeah i remember that but that was in like 1999-2002 or sothats not the extent of my experience with dialup, my family was poor so i was using dialup with netzero into like 2009those were the days, letting the laptop buffer a youtube video for half an hour to watch 2 minutes good times
>>108666466>YouTube>Dial-upYeah, I would have probably went insane dealing with dial-up by the time YouTube came around in 2005. That just sounds like a torture scenario.
i was born in 91 but we got a computer when i was young in the late 90s/early 2000sI remember back then there were no girls on the internet.i member lots of forums, flash games, piracy like kazza and napster. things took days to download. i member proto social media like live journal, myspace, early youtube. i member gore websites and porn websites, newgrounds, rotten.com, early 4chan over all it was slower but it was a wild west
>>108666466Did you have flat rates for calls or how the hell would dialup be less expensive with that kind of waiting?
>>108666237Internet should go back to pay per minute, and pay per MB while we're at it. Streamers and seeders get the rope.
I remember>getting kicked offline while playing ultima online because my mom needed to make a phone call (we only had one line)>getting a $3000 phone bill because the AOL phone number I used was long distance, despite being in the same town as me and the other AOL numbers I called>it taking like 60 minutes to download a 4 minute song
>>108666506>seeders get the ropeWhat are you, homosex?
>>108666502I dont remember what i did but i mean i had to be getting it for free somehow maybe free trials or something, I don't know.apparently netzero was free for 20 hours a month? Pretty sure i used it more often than that but who knows
>>108666232Making my family yell at me to get in the car while I waited for a SNES rom to finish downloading so as to have something to play on the powerbook during a road trip.
i'm not old enough to remember dial-up, but i did have a ~1mbps connection up until around 2018 so i basically got the same experience since i couldn't do anything until the family went to bed
>>108666522netzero was free for unlimited hours a month if you used some VB6 tool to hide the banner and send a keepalive
The peak was dsl 3mbps. Internet was still good, our minds were still free.
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>>108666376ISDN was fucking great.been murdered in favour of VOIP shit, final switch off (UK) is EOY.
>>108666232I do not remember bots calling them "ANNOG" signals.
>>108666232I remember buying plastic cards with codes, with some amount of tokens representing how much internets I get. I don't remember if it was time or traffic though. I also remember there was a "callback" as a separate feature which meant that you will not have to pay for regular phone time.
>>108666506Do you think you use internet less than streamers, lol?
>>108667132I did that too, it was a good way of making sure you're not going to eat into your parents' phone bill too much. With callback your phone would ring out once as the connection was established.It was kinda crazy how I waste my entire day on the internet but 30 years ago I had my hour of internet all planned out, the things I'd download, the things I'd just check out, the odd 1 hour of fucking around on IRC every once in a while. It was the most intense learning period of my life and I was never as productive again.
>>108666232>generated slop image There are thousands of example screenshots of dialer windows from the relevant time period. But you had to go and generate slop.
>>108666496> i member lots of forums, flash games, piracy like kazza and napster. things took days to download. i member proto social media like live journal, myspace, early youtube. i member gore websites and porn websites, newgrounds, rotten.com, early 4chan I'm sorry, but this reminded me downloading anal porn on soulseek. Yeah, it's for music, but it was there back in the day. You could just search "anal" and get tons of 3-6 mb videos.
>>108667105what is that weird rotary device that he puts his finger into?
>>108666347What can I say? I'm in love with my sofa.
