[QUOTE=J!NX;42046076]I'm 19 and never used dial up
I think that's about old enough to have had to have dealt with it once.[/QUOTE]
We're right on the edge of it I feel like. I'm 19 as well and only used it until I was about 9. I only used it for the Pokemon website and for instant messaging my grandparents (who just upgraded from dial-up to DSL a few months ago).
Was AOL an American thing? Why does everyone remember it?
[QUOTE=Silikone;42046547]Was AOL an American thing? Why does everyone remember it?[/QUOTE]
Well, 'America OnLine'.
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[QUOTE=Silikone;42046547]Was AOL an American thing? Why does everyone remember it?[/QUOTE]
its actually been around for a pretty long time, and last I checked still was, but, I don't keep tags on it
my dad has CD's of his resume when AOL was still big, he had an email from a competitor of AOL from like, so long ago :v:
I makes me feel both young and old. It predated me enough that I just missed it when it was common but I lived in the time dial-up existed. When I get way older I'll have stories of what other people said about dial up :v: just like grandparents talk about spin phones
[QUOTE=Silikone;42046547]Was AOL an American thing? Why does everyone remember it?[/QUOTE]
AOL stands for America Online. It was one of the major ISPs back in the day. While some ISPs just gave internet access via internet explorer or netscape, AOL was a program you installed. It had chat rooms of various interests, games, and parental controls with different levels. It also had its own built in browser. For the time period, it was pretty damn cool.
I remember CompuServe and The Source. AOL was always fun because they gave out free subscriptions on floppy disks you went home with, formatted, and you had a free 1.44mb floppy. :v:
Then they switched to CD's and then you got free drink coasters and shit to scare the birds out of the garden with.
[QUOTE=Chezburger;42046001]A lot of that stuff is (sadly) out of action.[/QUOTE]
[quote]All Dial-Up BBS system listed are checked and verified
every 120 days. If a BBS is down for more than 30 days after that,
it will be removed from the list.
Updated July 1, 2013[/quote]
They're still active.
[QUOTE=Silikone;42046547]Was AOL an American thing? Why does everyone remember it?[/QUOTE]
we had dial up AOL in the uk for ages. our house had dial up for the fucking longest time, going from that to 80/30 has totally blown my mind
[editline]2nd September 2013[/editline]
also i remember the aol desktop environment too well, piece of fucking shit
[QUOTE=ViralHatred;42043737]I miss the days of "NO NO NO DON'T PICK UP THE RINGING PHON-" *Internet Disconnected.*[/QUOTE]
I never had to deal with this because my Dad used to play Quake a fair bit so we had two phone lines.
-boop-
just as well, do people still use 56k warnings?
[QUOTE=SadisticGecko;42045946]Yup. I'm in rural Oklahoma and there's three internet options: dial up, satellite, and a system that uses radio towers. AT&T claimed that we were going to get high speed around christmas time in..I guess 2006.
....Where's my goddamned high speed internet? I mean, 0.268 MB/s is better than the 2.5 kb/s dialup offers, but shit. I'd love to download at 1MB/s.[/QUOTE]
Same situation, though in Florida. It's dialup, satellite, or cellular. We ended up going with satellite since it had the most data(cap) for cheapest(still expensive as hell though). It's called Exede. Here's the speeds I got the other day:
[img]http://www.speedtest.net/android/566784481.png[/img]
Though, AT&T has for some reason upgraded the towers nearby(there's one on my street/road)... and LTE/4G is working now:
[img]http://www.speedtest.net/android/566777823.png[/img]
I remember dial up though... waiting like ten minutes for stupid flash games to load and stuff. Though I do think there is a market for it, Satellite is probably eating way at it. Although it does cost quite a bit more.
[QUOTE=angelangel;42047529]just as well, do people still use 56k warnings?[/QUOTE]
I still keep it in my personal lexicon as a legacy term for "this is a fucking huge file"
I remember my parents had gotten us a separate phone line so we could use the phone and internet at the same time. Little did they know, my sister and I also used that second line to prank call people.
Though, am I the only one who doesn't remember dial up being slow? It's probably 'cause we didn't have anything better at the time to compare it to, but I don't remember waiting long to play games on Nick and Cartoon Network's sites.
Funny that Dial-up in the UK is dead, I was at a hotel the other day and had to use an ATM, I could fucking hear it ringing to connect, made all the noises as well. I didn't think ATMs used DU.
I remember back when my family and I had dial up years ago on an old blocky computer that ran Windows 95 or 98 (I don't remember). Besides the common sounds of dial up, the dial up modem when dialing would make a very strange "waah whaah wa waah" sounds as if a text to speech female voice was talking in gibberish. I sure don't miss the speeds though that's for sure :v: .
I remember using dial-up on my mother's pc so I could play ATF: Advanced Tactical Fighter with my dad. He was seriously into the Jane's fighter simulators and the first Operation Flashpoint.
[QUOTE=pentium;42047304]Your dad played quake? :v:[/QUOTE]
Yeah he got me into gaming.
I don't know get it why people rate this [img]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/ratings/heart.png[/img] but I see the shutoff as a sign we are moving on to better technology
[QUOTE=milkandcooki;42040955]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[/QUOTE]
Pretend you're a packet getting from one computer to another.
[QUOTE=dije;42049728]I don't know get it why people rate this [img]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/ratings/heart.png[/img] but I see the shutoff as a sign we are moving on to better technology[/QUOTE]
Nostalgia?
I never used dial-up. I'm not very old and my parents were always pretty good about keeping our computer equipment up to date.
Dial up will not truly be dead until these stop showing up in WalMarts
[img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jLaEIqL6T8Y/STIMtGVD1XI/AAAAAAAABmU/6wA4Os7_GCQ/s400/Netzero.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Rents;42046581]Well, 'America OnLine'.[/QUOTE]
Wait holy fuck, that's what it stood for? I never knew that :v:
[QUOTE=FunnyStarRunner;42044458][URL="http://www.peoplepc.com/"]PeoplePC still exists.[/URL][/QUOTE]
That's...scary.
[QUOTE=angelangel;42047529]just as well, do people still use 56k warnings?[/QUOTE]
I think plenty of sites ban "[56K WARNING]". SA does for sure, I believe.
[QUOTE=pentium;42045113]The first time I ever heard the term "broadband" it referred to 64K cable internet. Then ADSL took over with 128k and the two kept besting eachother.
I blame that more on shitty web programming.[/QUOTE]
wasn't the 128k thing ISDN?
[editline]2nd September 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=MuTAnT;42049711]Yeah he got me into gaming.[/QUOTE]
My Steam account was passed down to me from my dad
apparently I was 7 years old when it was created
[QUOTE=Thom12255;42040867]RIP
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0[/media]
[/QUOTE]
I always wondered as a kid what data was being sent here (Obviously the first part is a phone number). BRB research.
[editline]3rd September 2013[/editline]
There we go, curiosity satisfied:
[img_thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Dial_up_modem_noises_explained_final.png[/img_thumb]
It's like karaoke now.
[editline]3rd September 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=pentium;42047304]Your dad played quake? [/QUOTE]
My grandma got quake like, the day it came out. She's responsible for my love of pc games, I used to borrow all hers when she finished them. Fond memories of playing Duke Nukem 3D at 6 years old.
took me far longer than it should to realise the phone in win 95 was actually ringing the numbers i typed in through the modem
[editline]3rd September 2013[/editline]
what was that isp called that brought you an 0800 number instead of paying 3p a minute, or 1p after 6
then there was the one that was completely free, only managed to connect to it about twice though
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