#dial-up — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #dial-up, aggregated by home.social.
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I just wrote a little blog post about the time that I created a 1990s dialup ISP in my home using hardware from the late 90s.
https://peteftw.com/~pete/2026/04/recreating-a-1990s-isp.html
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Oh look, a digital time machine! 🚀 Dive into the retro world of #IRC and #XMPP because nothing screams "cutting-edge" like 1999 tech. 🌐✨ But hey, who needs progress when you can embrace "the human" by dusting off your dial-up modem? 📞💾
https://joshblais.com/blog/using-the-internet-like-its-1999/ #digitaltimemachine #retrotech #nostalgia #dialup #HackerNews #ngated -
Well, I got back to the Dreamcast dial-up project. I verified I had everything set up and did another test call from a handset to the number I configured and yep, I'm hearing modem noises.
I tried connecting from the Dreamcast and I got "NO CARRIER" multiple times, then after a few tries the text output box started speaking in tongues. I don't know enough about the USB modem I ordered to see what it's seeing, either. I'm stumped.
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Ah, the #SDF #Public #Access #UNIX System, where nostalgists can relive the glory days of 1987 with *thrilling* telnet and dial-up! 🎉 Don't worry, there's a "modern" web browser #SSH for those who can’t be bothered to dust off their rotary phones. 😜 Welcome to the Jurassic Park of #computing, where every connection feels like an archaeological dig! 🦖⌨️
https://sdf.org/?ssh #nostalgia #dialup #retro #JurassicPark #HackerNews #ngated -
Oh sure, let's all pretend it's 1996 again and set up a dial-up ISP with a Raspberry Pi in 2026 🙄. Because nothing says cutting-edge technology like paying homage to the golden era of 56K modems and screaming phone lines 📞🔊. Next up: how to use a Commodore 64 to stream TikToks, because we're all about #innovation here! 💾🚀
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/build-your-own-dial-up-isp-with-a-raspberry-pi/ #retrotech #nostalgia #dialup #RaspberryPi #56Kmodems #HackerNews #ngated -
Что модемная эпоха дала современным протоколам и нашим привычкам
Многие ещё помнят характерный звук диалап-модема при подключении к сети, кто-то даже хранит у себя эти коробочки, а некоторые вообще не слышали о коммутируемом доступе. Однако модемная эпоха не просто прошла, она оставила после себя огромное наследие, которому и будет посвящена эта статья. Читать
https://habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/articles/1013140/
#диалап #диалапмодем #основы_компьютерных_сетей #протоколы #модем #история_it #ITинфраструктура #ruvds_статьи #интернет #dialup
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Ah, yes, the pinnacle of innovation: a game so #retro it requires you to relive the glory days of dial-up connections. 😒 Just what we need in 2023—JavaScript and cookies to unlock the mysteries of 1-bit graphics. 🍪🔍
https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg1363742#msg1363742 #gaming #innovation #nostalgia #dialup #JavaScript #HackerNews #ngated -
"Today's AI is tomorrow’s dial-up!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
There’s a phrase I like to use: “Today will involve the slowest rate of change for the rest of your life!”
That concept seems quaint in the era of fast-moving AI. In fact, we should rephrase it: “By the time you finish reading this sentence, the state-of-the-art has already moved on.”
Think back to 2024. We were impressed by a chatbot that could summarize a PDF. For those of us of a technical bent, we thought a 128k ‘context window’ was a “breakthrough.” In retrospect, that was the screeching, static-filled noise of the 56k modem era. We were in the AOL-era of AI!
Today? Welcome to the broadband era of intelligence.
In just the last 24 months, the landscape hasn’t just shifted. It’s undergone a seismic shift. The ground we knew below our feet has been pulverized and rebuilt. Think about just a few of the AI trends as we go into this new era:
The Memory Explosion: We’ve graduated from "summarizing a document" to "uploading the entire library." Leading models like Gemini now process millions of tokens at once, compared to the 128k context windows we were celebrating as breakthroughs just 18 months ago. We aren't just prompting; we’re giving AI an entire War & Peace document set to churn through.
The Price Collapse: Intelligence is now a commodity utility. The cost to run GPT-4-class reasoning has plummeted by 98%. What cost $60 is now essentially "too cheap to meter" at less than $0.75.
From "Chatting" to "Doing": 2024 was about talking to a screen. 2026 is about Agentic AI. We're moving past chatbots to autonomous agents that negotiate, navigate CRMs, and execute project workflows without being babysat.
The last few weeks have had me working with Claude Cowork and Claude Copilot, and my entire concept of AI has changed. I don’t just ask it questions — I now instruct it to go off and do the work on my behalf. That’s a subtle but important change, and once you wrap your head around what that change brings, your head explodes.
And I haven't even yet jumped into the world of Claw! It's on the list!
It is evident that not only is the power and capability of AI accelerating, but we are rapidly building a new operating system around it. If you are still "playing around" with prompts, you’re still waiting for the handshake signal on a dial-up connection. You're stuck with a modem connection when the rest of the world has installed fiber.
The bandwidth of possibility has expanded. The question isn't whether the tech is ready. The question is: Are you ready for the speed of the "Broadband" era, or are you still waiting for the page to load?
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Futurist Jim Carroll started his online experience with a 300-baud modem in 1982. Think about that.
**#AI** **#DialUp** **#Broadband** **#Acceleration** **#Technology** **#Future** **#Change** **#Innovation** **#Agents** **#Claude** **#Speed**
Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/03/decoding-tomorrow-daily-inspiration-the-acceleration-of-ai-todays-ai-is-tomorrows-dial-up/
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Actually - if the current #Fascist #Authoritarian Assaults on speech and the internet continue unabated - we may need to revert to #dialup point-to-point connections with the old #modems that made that sound.
Although I dont think an analog modem would work over a cell network. Hmmm... now I made myself curious...
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Hab hier gerade ein #ELSA #Modem, bei dem ich die Firmware ausgelesen habe. Schön, was man da direkt im Header der #Firmware findet 😉. Ach so... das landet natürlich auch alles wieder in meinem Weblog. Da es dafür ja nichts gibt, sichere ich das jetzt mal zumindest für mich. Evtl. parke ich es auch noch auf Archive.org - mal sehen. #Retro #POTS #dialup #rockwell
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📜 Oh, dear Time Lords, please save us from the horrors of modern #technology by freezing computers in 1993: a time when dial-up tones were music to our ears and floppy disks were all the rage. 😂 Apparently, the only thing more outdated than this idea is presenting a private mastodon post as if it's some prophetic revelation. 🦖
https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/322461.html #TimeTravel #Nostalgia #DialUp #FloppyDisks #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀✨ Ah, the birthplace of the internet—where you can nostalgically click through the pixels of yore like a digital archaeologist discovering an ancient tomb of boredom! 🤖🔍 Because who wouldn’t want to explore the prehistoric web through a #linemode browser simulator? Cue the sound of dial-up connecting... 📞👾
https://info.cern.ch #internet #nostalgia #digitalarchaeology #browserhistory #dialup #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉 #CERN, in its infinite wisdom, decided that the world absolutely needed a reminder of how "glorious" the #web was in 1989. So, they spent precious resources recreating a #browser that makes Netscape look like cutting-edge technology. 😂 Because who wouldn't want to nostalgically surf the web at a pace that matches dial-up speeds? 🌐🚀
https://worldwideweb.cern.ch #Nostalgia #DialUp #Humor #HackerNews #ngated -
Kids today are just ... rude. 😆
#NMS #SciFi #ProcGen #games #gaming #gamers #Steam #HelloGames #maturegamer #funny #genz #nostalgia #vintage #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #dialup #BBS #screenshot #Discord #chat
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the world is divided between those who would turn up their noses at a $5 USR Sportster at a thrift shop, and mastodon
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Feb. 16, 1978 -- forty eight years ago today -- the first public dial-up bulletin board system or BBS went online.
Wired: "1978: Ward Christensen and Randy Suess launch the first public dialup bulletin board system. The two unleash the kernel of what would eventually spawn the world wide web, countless online messaging systems..."
https://www.wired.com/2010/02/0216cbbs-first-bbs-bulletin-board/
I got my first modem in the summer of 1986, a Prometheus ProModem 1200A (modem on a card) for the Apple II. The first BBS I logged in to was OxGate, an RBBS/RCPM system the phone number of which I still can remember (my earliest BBS software -- firmware-based on that modem card -- had no phone book). I used BBSs avidly until sometime in 1994, when I subscribed to a local ISP's (Widomaker of Williamsburg, VA) dial-up modem-based PPP service that brought TCP/IP to my 486 PC with Windows 3.1. I could then browse the web from home, and that was basically the end of BBSing for me -- for the moment, anyway.
For those interested in experiencing this early form of online community, there are many BBSs online right now, accessible via telnet on systems old and new. I've enjoyed getting back into BBSing this way, especially when using vintage systems to login.
Most any computer can do it, today. Tips on how: https://bytecellar.com/bbsing
#BulletinboardSystem #BBS #BBSing #telnet #dialup #modem #online #terminals #terminalprograms #computinghistory #history #computers #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #nostalgia #ATDT #onlineforums #preinternet #internet #communication #RBBS #AppleII #CRT #memories #Wired #tech #technews #technology
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Закат эпохи: провайдеры окончательно отказываются от dial-up и 3G, но ряд идей в основе технологий обретают новую жизнь
Технология коммутируемого доступа до сих пор вызывает чувство ностальгии — характерный звук модема сложно забыть. Но телекомы по всему миру продолжают отказываться от dial-up — и следом от сетей 3G. Процесс, который начался еще нулевых, набирает обороты. Обсудим ситуацию и поговорим о том, как идеи коммутируемой связи находят новую жизнь.
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There's a long story behind this post that I'll spare you from having to endure.
But lengthy story shortened, I'm currently using my cell phone as a Bluetooth hotspot for my tablet.
The images load so slowly that it's like downloading pr0n on a dial-up connection -- for those who've experienced such things.
Memories of good times, good times.
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🎮✨ Ah, yes, let's wax poetic about the "good old days" of 1998 when our graphics were as chunky as our dial-up modems. The author, a self-proclaimed wizard of yore, reminisces over pixelated stealth games as if they were lost Da Vinci paintings. Who needs cutting-edge tech anyway when you have #nostalgia goggles jammed on your face? 🙄🎨
https://nothings.org/gamedev/thief_rendering.html #gaming #retro #pixelart #dialup #HackerNews #ngated -
you are about to be subject to a rant...
I have been using #Unix *compatible* operating systems since 1993, when I first got the chance. That was the sole reason why I went back to get another engineering degree, for internet access and Unix, which was very difficult for a normal person to get back then. Very selfish of me, but I met awesome people and early architects of the internet as we know it today, It was about free unrestricted access to the greatest engineering information and communication in the world. There was a massive satellite dish at the university library that went into the telecommunications room that supplied #dialup connections to the offices and home computer use. In the faculty offices, 19200 baud, at home the mighty 1200 baud modem and a telephone line.
All I needed was an 80x25 VT102 compatible terminal. Back then, thousands of dollars could easily afford a computer to run a terminal emulator. The IBM PC/AT 386 that could double as a boat anchor did the job, but only had just over a megabyte of memory, which was a lot in those days. All I still need is a 80x25 terminal, but 80x50 is nice. 120x50, even better, sweet!
Fast forward through the 2000's, after the historically amazing RedHat IPO that helped unseat the absolutely brutal Microsoft monopoly. Yes, I was a diehard Redhat advocate. But then their fucking #systemD and their cringe provocative claim "Unix is dead" and deliberate #enshitification of things they don't understand. Fuck that shit. I still run embedded #minimalist operating systems that are perfectly compatible with many decades also as my full desktop to this day.
/rant
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🎩✨ Someone ported a fossil of an #emulator to a calculator-grade device, just so we can relive the glory days of 640x480 resolutions. If only there was an ESP32 app to bring back our dial-up connections too, we'd truly be living in the retro-future 🤖🔧.
https://github.com/amcchord/M5Tab-Macintosh #retrocomputing #nostalgia #techinnovation #dialup #HackerNews #ngated -
CompuServe is still running? We're almost the same age. 😞 Bulletin boards, dial up sub 14.4 and Macintosh not MacOS is about where we started. A computer is just a tool. Switch out when it no longer serves you. #linux #macos #pc #atari800 #compuserve #dialup www.compuserve.com
CompuServe.com - Home -
True mobile internet in the palm of your hand. What a world.
(The DreamPi is a very fun little gadget)
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c3isdn announces availability of IPv6 access via PPP dialup over analog Modems! Dial 91910 and username 39c3 / password 39c3. #modem #retronetworking #retrocomputing #39c3 #dialup
