????? Beep
#@$&1234!!! No carrier...
it's the end of civilization, I'm telling you,
Going to pore one out for AOL dialup. I met my wife on line and she was using AOL Dialup at the time.
MOM!!!
TERRY'S USING ALL OUR MINUTES!!!
Hey, kids, did you know the Internet used to make sounds?
In reply to Appleseed :
The computers were screaming in pain, we should have heeded the warning.
I would never have thought that I would become nostalgic for the sound of a modem connecting back then.
What's next? No more floppy disks in the mail?
In reply to ShawnG :
No more floppy disks.
Floppy disks that are in good condition have been harder to get lately. Suck for the retro computing folks.
AOL; fat cats. Juno or die!!!
although I did use AIM, and that is how I finally learned to type properly after years of mavis beacon failing to break my poor typewriter habits.
I still have my AOL email accounts......
In reply to californiamilleghia :
What's frightening is that so do several former heads of government agencies, including the (2012? 2010? I don't remember when he got named specifically on an AOL data leak) head of the CIA.
Do, doo, do doo.
I had no idea it was still a thing.
I can only imagine how long it would take a modern web page to load over dial-up.
Click a link, go have dinner and a movie, and still wait for the page to finish loading.
I am surprised this is a thing also. I looked up 56k modems to see if they still sell them. This is what they look like
In reply to Toyman! :
It's still a thing. There are still areas in the US where the only non-satellite based Internet access is via dial up.
In reply to BoxheadTim :
Apparently, but I would think the entire internet would be useless at dial-up speeds. I vividly remember how painful images were to load at 56k.
In reply to Toyman! :
With the way most of the web is going, dial up is probably just workable for email.
In reply to BoxheadTim :
Even then you'd probably need to have it configured not to load any images. I bet the average marketing email I receive is >1/4 mb just from a few images shoved inside.
In reply to TravisTheHuman :
That's how my email clients are generally configured anyway 
. Not a fan of tracking pixels, for starters.
I meet people that still have AOL email addresses, mostly at work. Like dude, you're a grown-up making adult $$, maybe a newer email address? But I didn't know dial-up was still a thing.
And we have floppy disks in our inventory here, both double and high density. Have to make sure we count both correctly.
Toyman! said:I had no idea it was still a thing.
I can only imagine how long it would take a modern web page to load over dial-up.
Click a link, go have dinner and a movie, and still wait for the page to finish loading.
The last time I tried dial-up Internet was at an uncle's rural property in the early 2010s. Ordinary web pages took 1-3 minutes to load completely. And it would be far worse today.
I clicked on this 5 days ago, and my dial-up connection finally loaded the whole page. Might have to finally upgrade from Windows 97 while I'm at it.
Austin Cannon said:I clicked on this 5 days ago, and my dial-up connection finally loaded the whole page. Might have to finally upgrade from Windows 97 while I'm at it.
Man, share that super-exclusive Windows 97 beta you have!
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