Anti-nostalgia thread: what are y’all happy is gone and hope never returns?
Anti-nostalgia thread: what are y’all happy is gone and hope never returns?
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Dial-up internet. I would open a website and go do something else for a minute until it loads, then fight with my parents when they pick up the phone when I've been downloading something for 3 hours.
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We had very late internet infrastructure upgrade, so at the end we had a bluetooth dial-up internet router in the early 2010s...
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Internet over bluetooth is a crime against humanity
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@simple@lemm.ee Minitel was even worse. But then, Minitel was a French exclusivity.
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obligatory quick Sylvqin video (in french though)
I haven't known the minitel but I guess that the novelty of BBSes compensated the loading time
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@Taewyth@jlai.lu @Servais@discuss.tchncs.de @simple@lemm.ee When I was still in school, the Minitel was still used to register us to pass our diplomas. One of the schools I was in even still used an actual Minitel terminal to do so. (Most used a compatibility option integrated in dial-ups modems sold in the country. As did my father a couple of times for other unrelated tasks that couldn't yet be done via internet, when we first got it at home.)
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