Oh wow, it’s 2025 and we're still debating if our apps should handle grandma’s dial-up internet speeds? 📡💨 Apparently, developers need a reminder that not everyone has internet that can download the entire season of "The Witcher" in 5 seconds. 🙄 Let’s just build our websites like it’s 1999 and call it a day! 🕹️💾
https://bytes.zone/posts/should-we-design-for-iffy-internet/ #internetaccess #webdevelopment #dialup #nostalgia #techdebate #2025tech #HackerNews #ngated
#dialup
Edit: Don’t mind me! Apparently, this is an old article! But still!
Original:
It is the year of our Lord 2025 and people are still subscribing to AOL?!
About 1.5 million people still pay for AOL — but now they get tech support and identity theft services instead of dial-up internet
#AOL #AmericaOnline #Support #IdentityTheft #DialUp #Internet #Tech
Before the web, Bulletin Board Systems hosted elaborate multiplayer games through "doors" that suspended BBS operations to launch external programs over dial up connections. Classics like TradeWars 2002, Legend of the Red Dragon, and Usurper created persistent online worlds where players competed across days or weeks, limited by daily time restrictions that made every minute precious. These games pioneered concepts like persistent character progression, player versus player combat, and guild systems that would later define MMORPGs, all running on single phone lines with ingenious turn based mechanics. The door game scene fostered tight knit communities where players knew each other by handle and reputation, creating social dynamics that modern anonymous online gaming rarely achieves. Many of these games are still playable today through telnet BBSs and have inspired modern indie developers seeking to recapture that intimate, slow paced multiplayer experience.
#BBS #doorgames #TradeWars #RetroGaming #dialup
El 12 de junio, se cumplen 28 años de la fusión de 3Com (Ethernet) y US Robotics (Módems) en 1997. Una unión de $6.6 mil millones que buscó dominar la red, ¡pero la velocidad de Internet los superó! #retrocomputingmx #3com #USRobotics #HistoriaTech #dialup #90s
@twipped @Viss could be worse.
Whichever asshole at @EUCommission & @BMWK / @bmv & @kartellamt@social.bund.de allowed #Vodafone to buy #KabelDeutschland and #Unitymedia should be forced to live with #Dialup speeds for € 99,99 p.m. for the rest of their lives because Vodafone wants to charge me more for worse.terms and worse internet, and I've told them "How about no? Give me an offer that is even remotely competitive!" more than once…
Stolen from https://nerdculture.de/@PotsDame/114493448636993104, added alt text.
Original source: https://www.instagram.com/herobernz/reel/DI_kXMot3Bc/
The iPhone kids these days have no idea how it all started.... The 'mobile' internet 😂
#Ericsson #IrDA #2G #DialUp #TheStruggle
#TELNET #BBS #90'S #GAMES #DIALUP #CHAT #MRC #IRC
#OOK #YANKEETRADER #PLANETS #USURPER
Here are just a few amazing games playing at A-Net Online BBSes.
https://a-net-online.lol
http://mystic.a-net-onlne.lol
https://a-net-online.lol/x
https://a-net-online.lol/sf
Synchronet BBS
Telnet: a-net.online Port: 23 SSH:22 RLogin: 513
Mystic BBS
Telnet: mystic-anet.online Port: 23 SSH:22 RLogin: 513
Synchronet Linux BBS
Telnet: x.a-net.online Port: 2323
Rlogin: 5513
Spitfire BBS
Telnet: sf.a-net.online Port 2323
I've been having a #nostalgic #90s vibe lately. Listening to #sonicyouth and #soundgarden, #early90srnb , dreaming about #dialup internet, no #smartphones, #reruns, being a #teen in the #burbs...
What are you missing?
Wildcat! Interactive NET Server
Mustang Software's last hoorah released as the WWW ushered in the sunset of dial-up BBSes, WIN Server added TCP/IP to the Wildcat! dial-up BBS software allowing users to connect via telnet, HTTP or their custom Navigator client.
Navigator - available for 16-bit and 32-bit Windows - could make dial-up or IP connections to a WIN Server system.
Wow, 🚀 #revolutionary 🚀! Let's slap a glorified dial-up modem emulation on a fossilized relic and call it a day. Because who doesn't need a TCP/IP stack for the Commodore 64? 😂 Bravo, #time traveler!
http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/04/lets-give-provenix-barely-adequate-pre.html #dialup #TCPIP #Commodore64 #traveler #HackerNews #ngated
Bello Bear 9 April 2025 “The WiFi is Hell” [OC] - If you like, please share with one friend or family member to help Bello Bear grow!
#bellobear #comic #comics #comicstrips #webseries #webtoon #webcomics #webcomicseries #wifi #wifisucks #dialup
👀 Oh, look! A riveting exposé on #buttons that should have been left behind with dial-up #modems and #Tamagotchis. 🎉 This groundbreaking revelation unveils that 88x31 buttons are still a thing because, surprise, some people love living in the past––nostalgia is a heck of a drug, folks! 🚀
https://ultrasciencelabs.com/lab-notes/why-we-are-still-using-88x31-buttons #nostalgia #retro #tech #dialup #HackerNews #ngated
I was reading a story today about #theoldnet and how if you leave an “&” symbol at the end of an #email , it means you want the recipient to reply back. Does anyone remember this or still do this today? I don’t recall that being a thing or maybe it was and I didn’t notice. Gonna tag below with adjacent words in hopes of response.
#aol #bbs #vintagecomputing #retro #retrotech @ActionRetro #dialup #486 #windows95 #prodigy #netscape #icq #compuserve #angelfire #geocities #irc
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