[QUOTE]Telecoms giant BT is turning off its dial-up internet access service today.
The company said it was taking the step because only a "tiny number" of its customers still went online using a dial-up modem.
It added that the vast majority of its 6.8 million broadband customers had switched to much faster connections.
However, a small number of people in rural areas where broadband will not work will struggle to get online after the change.
Dial-up customers were first informed about the impending closure in May and June this year, BT said, adding that most of these people would be able to migrate to a broadband service.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23877364[/url]
[QUOTE=Thom12255;42040867]RIP
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0[/media][/QUOTE]
It's not like you can't have two modems of your own and fuck around with them with your own tiny networks, just for kicks.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;42040941]It's not like you can't have two modems of your own and fuck around with them with your own tiny networks, just for kicks.[/QUOTE]
alternatively put the dial up sounds on your ipod and listen to it while you're out on a jog or something
that's what keeps me pumped and motivated
It boggles my mind that people are still using it...
dial up is for true pimps
I remember back when we actually had dial-up as our only real Internet option.
And the AOL discs given out like candy. [I]Ahhhhh...good times.[/I]
I haven't used dial-up in 10 years. Hearing the old modem sound really takes me back.
My grandparents just got broadband way out in the rural area where they live yesterday. Good riddance, dial-up.
My Aunt and Uncle still use Dial-Up :v:
[sp]They still live together an they're in their late 40s... It's kinda odd...[/sp]
My internet is so shit it might as well be dial-up.
[QUOTE=Goodwell;42041276]I remember back when we actually had dial-up as our only real Internet option.
And the AOL discs given out like candy. [I]Ahhhhh...good times.[/I][/QUOTE]
I remember putting a pillow over my PC when I was connecting to the internet at night so my parents wont hear me.
Our Local Telco had a cheap dialup service but they also had time limits so basically you had a time quota, so you could have a great time surfing the net and loading some flash/shockwave games but then you'd wonder why they just stopped working and oh, we went passed our 20 minute mark or something
Well at least we don't have to worry about AOL trying to sell us their disks 24/7.
Poor those 3 people who still use dial-up.
Dial-up should've been outlawed years ago already
Remember back when thread titles would have "image heavy 56k warning" on them?
To think, at one time, I thought having a 56k modem was a pretty big deal.
I also remember picking up the phone and making a constant noise into it to sabotage the online time of my siblings.
Good riddance
I remember when my brother and I were trying to play "Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space" dial-up multiplayer, we accidentally called our home phone and got Dad on the line through our speakers.
Dial-up was an amazing time to be alive.
Dial-Up could still be useful. Perhaps useful for when there is a broadband outage?
Ah, yes, I remember when we switched from dial up to cable. We still had a Mac (the kinds that actually looked like the towers we know today), and I believe it was running os 7 or something. So the change of internet speeds wasn't that noticeable at the time :v:
As much as dialup makes me nostalgic, more ISPs need to start pushing customers to faster broadband services, so people can start to see what kind of speeds the internet has to offer. This should hopefully cause our government to see the internet as a utility, and regulate ISPs as such...
[QUOTE=TheCreeper;42042154]Dial-Up could still be useful. Perhaps useful for when there is a broadband outage?[/QUOTE]
My ATT DSL comes with complimentary dialup for just such an occasion.....we've never used it though.
I remember when we had dialup, we had this shitty line switcher thing that (in theory) would switch back to the landline phone if you had a call coming in, but would rather disconnect you for any amount of line noise. Also I remember asking my mom one year after opening presents on Christmas morning if the internet was "open today". Good times.
[quote]Dial-up customers were first informed about the impending closure in May and June this year, BT said, adding that most of these people would be able to migrate to a broadband service.[/quote]
that should read "all dialup customers should be able to make the switch" even if you have 1 guy not connected go run a fucking line to his house already and stop promising to eventually do it.
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I mean that's the whole reason this legacy service still existed was for the people you've screwed over for 20 years by not building infrastructure to
[editline]1st September 2013[/editline]
I was spoiled, I only barely remember dialup because my mom's job required a lot of internet usage so she had DSL as soon as it came out, then modems when that came out. we are just lucky to live like down the street from one of the isp 's nodes so we used to get big upgrades like that, since time warner took over though our internet has been fucked around with like every other week because they don't actually invest anything in it.
[editline]1st September 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=FunnyStarRunner;42042968][video=youtube;mbUbRHRuyfs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbUbRHRuyfs[/video]
R.I.P.[/QUOTE]
I'd enjoy that commercial if it wasn't painfully buffering like its 2003 again. its the freaking future, where's the improvement?
[QUOTE=Thom12255;42040867]RIP
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0[/media][/QUOTE]
WELCOME
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If I had a dollar for every time the AOL voice told me that I could buy out the entire internet.
i remember getting america online from a disc on my first computer which was a micron PC running windows ME and listening to that beautiful dial up sound as my father connected me to the internet so i could download the latest quake 2 patch
shit was cash
rip dialup in the uk
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