#dial-up — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #dial-up, aggregated by home.social.
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🚀 Wow, finally a terminal assistant that *doesn't* use machine learning—because who needs progress, right? 🙄 It's like they said, "Let's take the scenic route back to 1995," complete with all the #efficiency of a dial-up connection. 🕰️
https://github.com/gioblu/NPC-Forge/blob/main/docs/development.md #terminalassistant #retro #tech #dialup #nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated -
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Ah, the nostalgic days of #RuneScape on a dial-up connection, when MMORPGs were more "MMO" and less "RPG" — now we need a PhD to understand how a game ran on tech slower than a sloth 🦥💾. But hey, at least we were training to become patient adults every time the modem screamed for help 📞👵. Who knew picking flax was an exercise in network engineering? 🥳
https://jkm.dev/posts/how-2004-runescape-fit-a-multiplayer-rpg-into-56k-dialup/ #Nostalgia #MMORPG #DialUp #GamingExperience #HackerNews #ngated -
2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up
https://jkm.dev/posts/how-2004-runescape-fit-a-multiplayer-rpg-into-56k-dialup/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49516699
#HackerNews #RuneScape #Multiplayer #RPG #DialUp #Gaming #History
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Ah, the good ol' days of the internet: dial-up screeching like it was summoning demons, websites that looked like Picasso threw a tantrum, and forums filled with people armed with nothing but snark and GIFs. Now, it’s a digital shark tank, where predators swim freely in the cesspool of data breaches and malware. Good times! 😂🔍🦈
https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/internet_predatory_cesspit/ #nostalgia #internet #dialup #cybersecurity #digitalculture #HackerNews #ngated -
Help! I’d love to chat and play games more often with a few friends who live all over Germany using the Commodore #Amiga 🕹️
But playing together isn’t exactly easy, of course, so I reckon the only option might be those old #BBS online games, right? I have a vague memory of TradeWars… were there, or are there, actually any other good games like that? Does anyone here know anything about them or remember them? Then let’s set up a chat room 🫣😂 Maybe there are others here who’d like to revive something like that?
Thank you very much ❤️
#TELNET #90s #GAMES #CHAT #DIALUP -
Today I learned that NetZero offer free #DialUp Internet service. Their published system requirements are "Windows 2000" or "Windows Vista/7": https://store.netzero.net/account/showService.do?serviceId=nz-dialup
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CARRIER DETECTED — WIN98-SACRIFICE is up.
Windows 98 Chaos Arena
#windows98 #honeypot #hacking #bsod #malware #chaos #y2k #retrocomputing #cyberpunk #vaporwave #ambient #tech #247 #dialup #modem #bawnet
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CARRIER DETECTED — WIN98-SACRIFICE is up.
Windows 98 Chaos Arena
#windows98 #honeypot #hacking #bsod #malware #chaos #y2k #retrocomputing #cyberpunk #vaporwave #ambient #tech #247 #dialup #modem #bawnet
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CARRIER DETECTED — WIN98-SACRIFICE is up.
Windows 98 Chaos Arena
#windows98 #honeypot #hacking #bsod #malware #chaos #y2k #retrocomputing #cyberpunk #vaporwave #ambient #tech #247 #dialup #modem #bawnet
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Breaking news: someone just invented a bizarre shrine for the forgotten relic known as RSS! 🎉🚀 Now, if only there were a directory for people who still use dial-up #internet. 🤷♂️ #NextBigThing
https://andrewshell.org/2026/07/i-%e2%99%a5-rss/ #RSS #Revival #DialUp #Innovation #TechNews #HackerNews #ngated -
Apparently, the hip new trend is to build LLM routers, but these clowns decided to ditch theirs because being cool is overrated. 🤡 Meanwhile, they obsess over logos and "self-healing" like it's 1999 and everyone's still using dial-up. 🚀 Who needs functioning tech when you can have fancy #buzzwords and broken promises? 🙄
https://manifest.build/blog/why-we-deprecated-our-llm-router/ #LLMRouters #TechTrends #BrokenPromises #DialUp #HackerNews #ngated -
There is something rather cathartic about writing this over a dialup modem in wcNavigator, on a machine that predates Mastodon. Much like writing on my website (https://mmn.ca/notes/) through this, it kind of brings back the joy of internet is one specific place with an effort to go get it.
Gonna be honest, I'm not motivated enough to make a full client :D
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Oh, look! Someone resurrected the fossilized remains of Windows XP and put it in a browser. 🎉 Because, obviously, the world was desperately in need of a new way to relive the glory days of dial-up and Solitaire. 🙄 Bravo, Kimi K3, for reinventing the wheel... from 2005. 🕰️💾
https://windows-xp.kimi.site/ #WindowsXP #Resurrection #Nostalgia #DialUp #Gaming #RetroTech #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀✨ Ah, the allure of turning your modern website into a Windows 98 #nostalgia trip—because who wouldn't want their cutting-edge app to look like it just time-traveled from the era of dial-up and floppy disks? 😂🔧 Go ahead, relive the joy of boxy buttons and pixelated glory, because retro is apparently the new... antique.
https://jdan.github.io/98.css/#status-bar #retrodesign #Windows98 #webdevelopment #dialup #pixelart #HackerNews #ngated -
The Reed and Pickup: Putting The Internet Back In Its Place. “The basic idea behind this is that back in the dial-up days, the internet lived wherever the phone line came into the house. Laptops were still massive; we still paid by the minute to access the internet –it was essentially a really long, screechy conversation with a remote server and the whole family would share the one PC. So, […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/21/the-reed-and-pickup-putting-the-internet-back-in-its-place/ -
[Перевод] Как собрать собственный dial-up-провайдер на Raspberry Pi
Что получится, если взять Raspberry Pi, USB-модем, имитатор телефонной линии и старый iBook G3 с AirPort? Локальный dial-up-провайдер, который подключает ретрокомпьютер к интернету через Wi-Fi на скорости 33,6 Кбит/с. В этой статье автор собирает такую схему дома, разбирается с mgetty, PPP и модемным рукопожатием — и заодно показывает, почему эксперименты со старым железом всё ещё помогают лучше понимать современные сети. Разобрать проект
https://habr.com/ru/companies/otus/articles/1057094/
#dialup #Raspberry_Pi #iBook_G3 #ретрокомпьютеры #винтажное_железо #модем #mgetty #AirPort
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So you want to build a dial-up ISP from scratch? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb50cWlbzRo
Incredible video about just what it takes, exactly, to create an authentic 90s dial-up modem Internet Service Provider in the modern day. Fully explains things like RAS, PPP, SLIP and so forth that you will likely have heard of at the time but not understood. The fact you don't have to create your own routing tables by hand to get online is testament to some incredible work done by individuals to make the Internet accessible to home users at just the right time when it really took off.
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Ah, the nostalgic lament of a virtual dinosaur 🦕 reminiscing about the "good old days" of dial-up and #chatrooms. Fast forward to today, and it's all devolved into a TikTok-driven meme-fest 🙄. How dare the #internet evolve and not cater exclusively to your personal history lesson! 🙃🌐
https://cleberg.net/blog/internet.html #nostalgia #evolution #dialup #TikTok #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, the #nostalgia of trying to resurrect a game for an OS that should be fossilized by now! 😂 Dig out your floppies and dial-up #modems, because someone's determined to make "retro" synonymous with "unnecessary pain." Who cares that it's 2026 and XP is about as relevant as a fax machine? 🤷♂️
https://voxelmanip.se/2026/06/28/building-principia-for-windows-xp/ #retro #gaming #obsolete #technology #dialup #WindowsXP #HackerNews #ngated -
Ordenando los trastos viejos, aparecen reliquias... acá el CD de drivers de mi modem USRobotics 56k interno... y sí, en su momento lo instalaba en Windows 95 😅
Pensar que en esa época (finales de los '90), 56kbps era casi la velocidad de la luz en conexión a Internet 😆
BTW, debo tener el modem guardado por ahí, luego lo busco.
¿Alguien más siente nostalgia por los ruiditos que hacía el modem al conectar? 💬
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