It still comes through phones but we ditched the dial up and shoved the PCs inside the phones
I thought they shoved a phone inside a PC.
This is what it sounded like (no lie, and no RR):
HAHAHA! Yeah! I remember that awful noise!
As a person who had to troubleshoot connections, I even have that first major repeat tone memorized. If it didn't come through, I knew something was up.
Awful as it sounds, it was still data you could hear and decode using handwritten software. Protocols from those days were ones you could interact directly with - using software like telnet.
and no RR
That is exactly what a robot would
sayscream.
It was better then too!
People who only ever know the internet through smartphones will NEVER understand our pain.
They accept the modern ultra-cluttered short attention span theater moneygrab marketplace as 'the norm' and it fucking makes me ill.
They accept the modern ultra-cluttered short attention span theater moneygrab marketplace as ‘the norm’
So true!
Yeah... No. I'd much rather have the faster speeds, higher bandwidth and features that are common today than what was typical back then. The only things that were actually better was the limited number of ads (if any were on the page at all) and the variety being so that you could add ".com" to any random word or phrase and find a cool site way more than a domain name placeholder or porn.
random angelfire pages were prime internet
The good ol' days
Starting to sound a lot more like screaming robots than a 56k modem did.
It do be facts tho.:-P
Just because we're old don't mean we're wrong.
I remember the first ever popup I got and how it made me fear for the future of the web.
My friends roflcopter'd and said 'it's only a popup'
Now look the fuck where we are now...
It's like someone stealing your wallet, then digging into it, removing precisely $1, then putting it back. T-t-the fact that they only took a dollar isn't the point!:-P And if they can - and will - do that then what will they graduate to doing later, when they aren't just playing around and decide that they want more?
Some people just do not want to see the larger picture, and may punch you in the face if you try to explain it to them, citing how "pretentious"/"condescending" you are being, or like you are "bragging". If they do not want to learn... do not want to "know" things well then, most often it seems they do not want YOU to know things either:-(.
But just because we're nerds don't mean we're wrong. :-)
It still does, but it used to, too.
TIL I'm a grandma.
