Back when your computer picked up the phone and called some machine far away.
Gatekeeping is a downvote
I recognise that isn’t MS Sans Serif, that text is also anti-aliased and has kerning.
There was a time when you either had phone service or internet. But not both at the same time.
I BEGGED my mother for a second line, so I could stay online longer, but she wouldn’t get one :(
And if some bastard tried calling you when you were on the internet, they weren’t your friend any more.
I remember this and I complain about wifi. Americans are getting scammed on internet speed.
I don’t complain, my country’s internet is like one of the fastest in the world.
Unfortunately I DO know this image…
Trumpet Winsock.
I remember images loading one line at a time and I get irritated at less than 40Mbps.
Set phasers to BONK!
I loved the original NetZero. You could use the ISP phone number and set up a manual connection with Windows dialer… viola! Free dial-up with no ads or shitty dialer software!
I can still hear that image.
Christ, that sound lives rent free in my head
Limitations of available technology at the time =/= limitations generally caused by shitty ISPs and/or IT teams not maintaining their infrastructure and equipment properly.
We were also loading 30kb webpages. Try to load anything from the last 10 years over 33,600
there’s a few videos on youtube about people loading up dialup and trying to use today’s internet on it. It is not fun.
In the UK we had free numbers that would cut out after an hour of use and you had to redial, so you had to do downloads or uploads is chunks
ouch, I made ISD calls to Sydney after 10pm from Northern Australia to get the cheaper rates and had a 24k modem into one of the only ISPs in Australia at the time, IBM. I emailed someone in NASA once just because I came across their email address (in a Scientific American article I think?) … and they replied I was like… my jaw dropped when a reply came and I was like … this is the future and here we are, i never once imagined how shit it could get.
The early Internet brings back memories, when I’m using Linux. Only been on Linux for 3 years (Mint).
Oh god I feel old. Please don’t remind me of that.
