The Pain of Dial-Up Internet 💻📞
https://youtube.com/shorts/ZkaQC1tzKjc
From separate phone lines to Windows ME, the early internet era was a wild ride! Catch AwesomeCast 716 for a nostalgic dive: www.AwesomeCast.com & www.SorgatronMedia.com.
#AwesomeCast716 #DialUpInternet #RetroTech #TechPodcast #WindowsME
Despite the world having moved on with broadband, a small portion of the world still uses dial-up. Do you think it'll hang around for a bit longer? And more importantly, do you use it yourself for any reason? #dialup #dialupinternet #telecommunications #internet #technology https://mindsconnect.jcink.net/index.php?showtopic=803&view=getnewpost
@gozzy was just talking about technological recollections that define age. Here is another:
Are you old enough that @phillipdewet 's user profile picture looks like it is only halfway through loading?
It still hits me, even though I haven't had a WWW browser that displays images progressively, or a connection speed that low, for decades; *and* even though I'm old enough to know the quite different thing that the picture is referencing. (-:
There was a time when you paid by the minute to get online, and you downloaded info at the then-blazing speed of 1200 bits per second. (Roughly 260,000 times slower than what I have today, if I did the math right.) We really had to watch our budget.
#CompuServe #DialupInternet #1200Baud #VintageComputing #Nostalgia
@kelbot
I remember the early days of #dialupInternet for me: connecting, syncing email, opening a bunch of #forum threads (mostly on #Renderosity art site) and other sites, and submitting replies I had prepared beforehand to ones I'd opened the previous time.
