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Post by PaulsLaugh on Aug 27, 2023 12:59:36 GMT
Dial up Modems and DOS ![[hairraise]](http://storage.proboards.com/6870873/images/BNwjBofuU0mbfrsNOxJb.gif) The WordPerfect Template.   |
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Post by Catman on Aug 27, 2023 13:58:08 GMT
In Iowa, a lot of people still use homing pigeons to carry their internet packets.
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Post by Teleadm on Oct 6, 2023 17:11:41 GMT
LOL! yes those screech and scroll sounds it made while connecting via modems.
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Post by Hnefahogg on Oct 6, 2023 19:06:41 GMT
LOL! yes those screech and scroll sounds it made while connecting via modems. |
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Post by wildmanwizard on Oct 22, 2023 23:38:19 GMT
In these days when you can get a smartphone for 100 dollars or less and a SIM card for 10 bucks that hook you up to the Internet, people don't remember or are too young to know that there used to be a time when a computer cost so much that they put many, if not most, in debt. A lot of folks couldn't even afford their own computer and had to lease one through their jobs. Our first cost 3,500 dollars. Okay, there were less fancy ones for 1,000 (and computers were evolving at a rate where they were old the next year). The Internet was expensive, too; you were charged at an hourly rate instead of paying a monthly subscription. What could you do if you didn't have the money? You could for instance go to the library. But that wasn't a fitting option if you wanted to go on the NSFW websites. And the Internet was largely about that back then, to an even higher degree than today. Then Sega in 1999 released their Dreamcast console retailing for 199 dollars at launch coming bundled with a 56K modem. You could buy a disc with a web browser and a mouse and keyboard to get on the Internet. I own a console and just recently realised that I own an old dial-up modem. It doesn't make the classic dial-up sound, though. It turns out only the fancier ones did that.  Was there a monthly fee? |
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Post by PaulsLaugh on Oct 23, 2023 5:32:22 GMT
I had a dial-up for a while in the early 1990s, but it got to be too expensive. I went offline until I could plug directly into the internet, but it was so slow, I had to have my telephone lines upgraded. I've been clicking ever since.
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Post by Hnefahogg on Oct 23, 2023 6:58:20 GMT
As I understand it with dial-up in the USA, it was common or the norm to have capped plans with like 20 or 50 hours a month that timed the user out when all the hours were used. In Europe, you would instead pay per minute you were connected online and there was no cap other than a very expensive phone bill. So it could get very costly for an internet addict in those days. The US system was obviously much better. I've read that there also exist in the USA capped DSL and cable plans. I've never heard of that here. Only mobile internet (4G/5G) is capped. I had a dial-up for a while in the early 1990s, but it got to be too expensive. I went offline until I could plug directly into the internet, but it was so slow, I had to have my telephone lines upgraded. I've been clicking ever since. Dial-up was always slow. There were browsers back in the day that could save the cache and mitigate it on sites you often visited, but it was always slow to download files etc. |
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