• AOL still has 3.5 million Dial-Up subscribers
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My connection is 1.5 - 2 Mbits. I'm meant to be getting 8, but being on a small island means that things are a lot slower. My download speeds rarely go over 250 kBytes/s.
I used to have dial-up when I was 6. I loved making the little beepy boop sounds along with it.
Remember the free hours CD? [IMG]http://www.geek.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/aol-cd.jpeg[/IMG]
Well to be honest my family had found out recently that we have been paying for AOL for 14 years, 10 $ a month. Sad to see it go actually, I remember logging on to the browser and Cartoon Network.com being replaced with KOL(Kids online) sad thing is that I still have a AOL email.... I've tried to switch to GMAIL and it is easier, but then I'd have to update everything and nothanks I'm lazy
[QUOTE=Panda X;33109709]Remember the free hours CD? [IMG]http://www.geek.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/aol-cd.jpeg[/IMG][/QUOTE] Those made great coasters.
And all of them are on those Free Hours that they received in the mail every god damn week in 1997
[QUOTE=Doc Scratch;33109518]I used to have dial-up when I was 6. I loved making the little beepy boop sounds along with it.[/QUOTE] beepboopbeepbeepboop DRRRRRR CSHLRRRRGH FRGH FRGH DRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
[QUOTE=brandonsh;33110139]beepboopbeepbeepboop DRRRRRR CSHLRRRRGH FRGH FRGH DRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE[/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0[/media]
I remember when I had dial-up. It seemed normal then, I guess, but if I had to use it now, I wouldn't be able to handle it. This is odd because I posted [URL="http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1122883?p=33098158&highlight=#post33098158"]this[/URL] just last night. [QUOTE=Panda X;33109709]Remember the free hours CD? [IMG]http://www.geek.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/aol-cd.jpeg[/IMG][/QUOTE] Reminds me of when I found discs in the teacher's editions of our fucking old World History textbooks that included Internet Explorer 4 and Netscape in case you didn't have a browser.
We still have our EarthLink account just so we can keep our email. :v:
I guess even old Titans die slowly.
You mean 3.5 million hostages taken by AOL to stay in business. [editline].[/editline] Also I wouldn't be surprised if using AOL and dial-up is someone's fetish.
[QUOTE=peaceful guy;33110479][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0[/media][/QUOTE] Don't fax machines still make that noise?
[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;33111028]You mean 3.5 million hostages taken by AOL to stay in business. [editline].[/editline] Also I wouldn't be surprised if using AOL and dial-up is someone's fetish.[/QUOTE] [I]"Ohh. ohhh yesss... load, LOAD BITCH, load faster, ohhh, YESSSS, YEESSSSS, AHHHHH, YESSS, SO GOOOOOD"[/I]
My internet speed for the past year has been 160kbs...
i still have a free minute disc lying around that came with what i think was egm
BREEEEEP BRIP BOOP BOP CLICKCLIKCLICK BREEEEEEEP
[QUOTE=surfur;33112042]My internet speed for the past year has been 160kbs...[/QUOTE] That's been my speed for the last 7 years using Qwest. The sad part is cable internet service is available only one mile down the road from me. Though our internet is $25/month and it is reliable at least.
I bet a lot of those accounts with AOL are old dialup accounts that were converted to mailbox accounts when people changed to ADSL, so they could keep their old email addresses and such. Bigpond (here in Australia) do this a lot, and it's a big source of revenue. A $4.95 dialup account can be converted to a $15 mailbox account and no one is ever really the wiser - they just keep their email addresses and that's that, they're happy.
My cousin still had Dial-Up when he lived here. We're not in any rural part of the city. At all. He only had Dial-Up because his parents are cheap.
We only recently (within the last four years or so) got the option for 3G broadband and cable/DSL Internet. Satellite connections have low bandwidth and are almost always shittier than dial-up. We only live ~50 miles from Sacramento, which is a pretty major city. Most of you dudes live in urban/suburban areas, but you don't get a lot of options out here.
So somewhere out there 3.5 million people are fapping to ascii porn, which is the highest quality they can download. They are working on their Geocities pages. They are hoping no important calls come in while their phone line is tied up. Someone emailed them a link to a funny cat video but after half an hour only a graphic that says "Youtube" has appeared.
I remember the family computer got screwed up pretty bad when I was a kid, so my Dad took it to a computer repair place. The technician said that the guy who made AOL hated the guy who made windows so he made his program purposefully corrupt windows over time, and that it was unfixable. Then the technician tried to sell us a new computer.
[QUOTE=MacD11;33107350]Or everyone that lives out in the country. I mean living there isn't bad but the fact dial up STILL EXISTS somewhere is freaky. Also, People still use AOL? i thought they went down awhile ago.[/QUOTE] When I used to live in the country I had satellite. :rock:
My dad keeps his old account with Mindspring as a backup dial-up connection in the event that something bad happens. Additionally, I can dial my friend's server in washington and use it as a dialup connection. Ties up his phone-line, but its doable.
Last time I heard of someone with dial-up was back in 2005
Lol, remember when the internet was supposed to be a free service to all that can connect to it? (Upon its creation)? Oh yeah, then giant corporations started milking it.
Makes me sad that some people pay the same amount of money for a 56k dial-up that I pay for my 100/5 connection. :v:
And here i thought i'd never hear the words AOL or Dial Up again.
[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;33113644]I'm pretty far out in the country. I know that feeling. I had dial-up until 2009. Shit sucked.[/QUOTE] ive had dial up since a few months ago #fuckthesystem
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