I joined the real world again today...

[Killjingle]

bye bye dial up

I only had it for 3 weeks but what a stupid way to connect...

I cant fathom that being your only means to get online

[bassist_25]

When I move to Indiana this summer, I'm so saying goodbye to dial-up.

[Merge]

You guys don't have DSL or Cable up there??

[bassist_25]

You guys don't have DSL or Cable up there??

Not where I live. Cable isn't available on my road and the DSL station is too far away to be practical.

[Trucula]

I was one of the first in my small town to get internet back around 97'. I really didnt understand it then, a friend set it up and I looked at the home page for a day not knowing how to use it. Once he showed me a couple cool sites and how to use the search and address bar I thought I was the shintz!....But if I clicked on anything with a picture I might has well went and made dinner and came back. Now I went with "WildBlue". I'd never turn back to dial up.

[Mikey Wax]

Chad, welcome back to high speed porn, er, i mean, internet.

[songsmith]

I had seen the internet on a friend's computer, but Bobby Hurricane actually talked me into getting online in '96. My first PC was a Packard Bell 133mHz with a 2-gig hard drive... but it did have a 56K modem, which was pretty fast then. Napster was awesome then, but you had to leave your comp on all night to DL everything.
I worked at Ccor Electronics, which made broadband cable amps and extenders, so we knew when the Altoona broadband buildout was going online... we were one of the first in Altoona to get a cable modem, and it absolutely screamed... until everybody else got one.
Still worlds better than the annoying "ssssssssshhhhh-creong-creong" sound when logging on, or actually having to wait because of busy-signals.---->JMS

[Baceman Spiff]

Remember getting "punted"? You would be surfing online, and somebody would disconnect Dont miss those days at all.

[moxham123]

If you don't have a DSL or higher type Internet connection today, there are many websites you can't even access anymore. Plus, sending any type of documents or photo attachments takes forever and you can't listen to audio streaming or watch video streaming because some of the files (especially some of the bigger music websites) require DSL or better to use them. I switched from dial up to Verizon DSL almost two years ago once it was available here and I will never go back. Interestingly, it only cost $3.00 a month more than the highest speed dial up service I had.

[Heartless_Mockery_Records]

My first PC was a Packard Bell 133mHz with a 2-gig hard drive...

Wow, i think i had the same one! Mine only had the 33.6 modem though... and 16mb of ram... couldn't even play a lot of games. Still it was the 'shit' compared to my friend who only had the 100mhz processor.

Freaking pcs were expensive back then too.

[songsmith]

Freaking pcs were expensive back then too.

The Packard included tower, keyboard, 15"monitor, speakers and printer. Bought on sale, excellent deal: a shade over $1850.00. ---->JMS

[Trucula]

Freaking pcs were expensive back then too.

The Packard included tower, keyboard, 15"monitor, speakers and printer. Bought on sale, excellent deal: a shade over $1850.00. ---->JMS

Sounds like what I had too, bought at Sam's Club. $2000 and I remember the guy saying," You'll never need to buy anything else, it has more than you'll ever need! You can run a business and personal all right here"...That ones in the closet and now I have a Pasario from Wal-Mart for $500.

And I too remember being an hour into a download and getting a failed or being logged off

[DirtySanchez]

...That ones in the closet

Wut kinda internets r u lookin at in the closet fancy pants? hehe

[ZappasXWife]

One thing I remember from dial-up days....my kids were in Jr high and high school then, and they, as typical teenagers were hooked on the internet, chatting with their friends and such. I would go to bed early, and I knew they were staying up WAY too late on the internet. I would invariably wake up at some point and simply pick up the phone beside my bed, wait a few minutes until I would hear them swear down there because I had knocked them off line. Then I would hear the annoying noises of them trying to re-connect so I would keep picking up the phone until they would give up and go to bed. I don't think they ever knew it was me knocking them off. It beat getting out of bed and screaming at them.
And that, my friends, was the only advantage of dial-up.

[Jim Price]

Yes, I remember the good ol' days of A-O-Hell dial-up. Getting booted every time you visited a new website became old very quickly. Then cable internet came along. It was a happy Sunday morning when I called the AOL 1-800 phone line to inform them I was giving them the boot instead of the other way around.

[DrumAndDestroy]

One thing I remember from dial-up days....my kids were in Jr high and high school then, and they, as typical teenagers were hooked on the internet, chatting with their friends and such. I would go to bed early, and I knew they were staying up WAY too late on the internet. I would invariably wake up at some point and simply pick up the phone beside my bed, wait a few minutes until I would hear them swear down there because I had knocked them off line. Then I would hear the annoying noises of them trying to re-connect so I would keep picking up the phone until they would give up and go to bed. I don't think they ever knew it was me knocking them off. It beat getting out of bed and screaming at them.
And that, my friends, was the only advantage of dial-up.

you told my parents about that trick too!!!

god i hated that

[Trucula]

...That ones in the closet

Wut kinda internets r u lookin at in the closet fancy pants? hehe

It's where I keep your pin-up....LOL

[Naga]

Yeah. AOHell days were something else. I got to the point of hating it quickly. I wanted to get rid of it, but was addicted. It didn't take long either. Dealing with how often you were kicked... I took a count 1 day, and over the course of a few hours, I think it was like 12x-15x... Waaay too much!

I remember going from AOHell to Mindspring. I went from being an AOHell chat junkie to an AIM chat junkie. Cool thing was, there were a lot of boots for AIM that you didn't even have to have a prog do... And for some reason, I had a version of AIM that couldn't get booted. It was funny as Hell when someone would come into an AIM room and start sending boots around... And just hitting WARN on him a few times and laughing at it from there. Dumb lamers... Heh

Oh man. FINALLY getting rid of dial-up was the best thing! To this day, I'll refuse dial-up as long as I can! Oddly enough, the clicks and chings a dial-up modem makes were almost musical to me. And I never stopped the sounds, even though I knew how to

[XlifeNexus]

AOL was like a dream compared to good ol' Prodigy net on a Tandy from the Shack! Ugh!

I guess we'll have to take broadband instead of flying cars for now. Who the hell can afford to fly these days anyway?

[BloodyFingers]

My first computer was a 486 dx2, 66mhz. 33.3 modem....$3000.00 it was a AST desktop with a tandy monitor and printer. Thats what i learned midi on. damn slow i must say

[Colton]