#dialup — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #dialup, 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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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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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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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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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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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 -
"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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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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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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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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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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🚀✨ 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 -
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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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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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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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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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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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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(LTT) “How Bad is Dialup Internet in 2025?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-qyNFjZaQs
Linus Tips Tech ha fatto questo esperimentino l’altro giorno… chissà se per puro sfizio personale, o per una ritrovata nostalgia per i tempi in cui si stava meglio quando si stava peggio, visto che almeno, quando lui era ragazzino, ed Internet in casa era al massimo 56k, certamente non c’era una crisi sul mercato delle RAM dovuta allo schifo che fanno gli AI-bro… ma sto divagando un botto, ops; meglio vedere che ha combinato… o, in altri termini, cos’ha da dire uno che, comunque, nonostante la mia eternità, è più vecchio di me. 🌐
Allora, “quanto fa schifo usare Internet via modem telefonico nel 2025???” è la domanda che egli si pone con questo video… e, la risposta è: molto… e c’è per caso gente stupita di ciò? Però insomma, diciamo che in realtà dipende, perché dire “Internet” è dire un po’ tutto e niente. Se si intendono le e-mail (attraverso client nativi classici), e roba di quel tipo, allora OK, la dialuppa funziona… e, addirittura, è possibile pure fare un pochino di esotico gaming, altro ché! (Oddio, sempre ammesso che gli astri permettano, che non sempre è il caso….) Purtroppo, però, il web, che effettivamente ad oggi è praticamente il 98% di Internet mi sa, è un vero disastro, a dire poco… è assolutamente inutilizzabile, a dire meglio. 👻
Almeno usando un browser moderno del calibro di Chromium, testando le home page di vari siti… Google richiede più di una pausa pipì per caricare, Wikipedia almeno quanto una pausa sigaretta veloce, e Reddit è abbastanza pesante da consentire forse una pausa cacca (ma non diarrea eh, attenzione se ci provate). Bloccare il caricamento automatico delle immagini (che neanche sapevo fosse una funzionalità in Chromium!!!) aiuta un pochino, come osserva Linus, e bloccare gli script (dove possibile) pure un po’ in più, aggiungo io… ma il vero problema è che le pagine web ormai son grosse, piene spesso sia di HTML ciccione inutile (e WordPress in questo fa scuola, comunque…), e di tanti script e tracker e robe… ma, sorprendentemente, pure il solo CSS è spesso pesantissimo!!! 🥴
Non ho tantissimo tempo da perdere come Linus, io, ma comunque un po’ di tempo da perdere lo avevo, poco fa… Quindi, ho fatto qualche test al volo con certi miei siti, usando la funzione di Chromium per fare il throttling della rete, con gli stessi parametri che Linus ha usato per simulare accuratamente una linea 56k, dopo aver rinunciato a fare le prove con la vera dial-up, che si è rivelata più merdosa del previsto (perché in realtà ben meno di 56k… non ironicamente, non c’è più la dial-up di una volta): 53 k/s down, 48 k/s up, 250 ms ping, 1.5% packet drop. Se i miei Pignio e Aggregodo, che usano dei grossi framework CSS, impiegano praticamente un fottuto minuto a caricare la home così… Brutkey, il mio client Misskey per web legacy, in meno di 10 secondi ha presentato la timeline, gustoso! Ho in realtà provato anche a caricare la home di un subreddit su Reddit Old, con ovviamente sia immagini che script disattivati, e ci ha messo solo 20 secondi… Quindi, ok, male ma non malissimo. 🙄
Comunque, è veramente assurdo che nel 2025 ci sia ancora la dial-up in giro… cosa a proposito della quale non sono contro eh, perché oh, magari lo sfizio, gnam, evviva poter scegliere… Ma è assolutamente merdoso che in molti posti, per molte persone, sia l’unica opzione davvero accessibile, cioè l’unica con prezzi accettabili o forse anche l’unica fisicamente disponibile… questo non va bene, che schifo. La cosa incredibile però è che, per quello che so (poi magari so male, ma intanto…), solo il Nord America è messo così di merda… porca miseria, pure nei fottuti villaggi dell’Africa hanno delle connessioni wireless accettabili, cioè, che cazzo!!! 🥀
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It's snowing outside, so...good time for some BBSing.
https://bytecellar.com/2022/01/11/bbsing-in-the-snow-is-the-best-way-to-log-in/
#BBS #BBSing #BulletinBoards #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #dialup #telnet #internet #tech #vintagetech #blog #blogpost #techblog #nostalgia #AppleII #CRT
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ah yes, before we posted pictures of food we had to simply describe it
i absolutely remember that room
Citadels attracted a mature literate crowd, a clear forerunner to modern twitter-like micro-blogging, that none the less reveled in irrelevant shitposting 😆
from a eulogy for three citadels by Michael Finley of the St. Paul Pioneer Press circa 1996?? now there's something to track down a scan of
https://lwr.wtf/citadel/Newsletters/news9604.html
so there you go, from top of the world in the early 90s, to rapid death around '96 along with the rest of the BBS scene...
as the large for-profit multi-line boards pivoted to full ISP service, the amateur sysops looked at their phone bills and began eyeballing DSL connections instead of second phone lines...
#BBS #Citadel #Citadel86 #Minneapolis #retrocomputing #bbsing #dialup #dialupdays
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A few big names even ran Citadels
hometown hero PC Tech Inc ran a Citadel-86 before being absorbed into Zeos/Micron (and still has a Minneapolis office!)
Atari Corp ran a STadel circa 1988!
Bad Sector became Visi.com, a pivotal early Twin Cities ISP, and long since absorbed into god knows what...
#BBS #Citadel #Citadel86 #Minneapolis #retrocomputing #bbsing #dialup #dialupdays
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@orc (hi!) famously implemented a UUCP gateway for STadel, bringing usenet groups (and email?) into CitaNet for a time, but got in to a bit of a row with Hue Jr and had left the 612 scene by the time i got online in 1994
a CitaNet overview, from December 1992
the original Test System, run by Hue Jr in Minneapolis was the beating heart of the CitaNet
i often called it as it was a good place to pick up most of the networked rooms 😀
a good ~25 nodes in MN alone
maybe half were still running in `94 and memories are shaking loose of a number of them...
#BBS #Citadel #Citadel86 #Minneapolis #retrocomputing #bbsing #dialup #dialupdays
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there's a stash of CitaNews at https://lwr.wtf/wiki/Newsletters
Citadel history thread LETS GO!
been racking my brain trying to remember what all the networked rooms were, here's a list from an amiga board in August 1991
Citadel style BBSs may not have been that popular overall, but they maintained pockets of rabid popularity in a variety of major cities
Citadel-86 gained its own federated networking as early as 1986, (a mere few years after FidoNet began!) quickly becoming a mainstay of many Citadel BBSs
#BBS #Citadel #Citadel86 #Minneapolis #retrocomputing #bbsing #dialup #dialupdays
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Citadel-86 v3.49-hax deployed live 🫡
has Y2K fix, removed some pauses waiting for old modems which are not necessary in emulation, and i've got it idling using HLT, which keeps it from burning CPU in VMs new and old, such as a Win95 dos window 😀
connect via ssh to [email protected]
#BBS #Citadel #Citadel86 #Minneapolis #retrocomputing #bbsing #dialup #dialupdays
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It's Been a Year Since Trump Was Elected. Democrats Still Don't Get the Internet
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/do-democrats-get-the-internet-yet/
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for how many retro BBSs are out there now, maybe two of them are Citadel?
doing my part, and attempting to resurrect Citadel-86, widely used in its (and my) hometown of the Minneapolis 612 and beyond, and root of many later Citadel forks
does anyone out there remember these?
tell me your stories because they are rapidly being lost to internet decay
did you notice bbsmates is gone?
Citadel-86 is now borderline lost media, the last version is MIA along with some extra tools for database resize and the Ease config tool
does anyone have them? check those dusty floppies
#BBS #Citadel #Citadel86 #Minneapolis #retrocomputing #bbsing #dialup #dialupdays
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🥱 Wow, Clay Shirky is back with a riveting tale from 2004 about how software can be, wait for it, "situated"—truly groundbreaking stuff from the days when dial-up was still a thing. 🤯 Who would've thought that the real innovation is to build software for specific contexts? Certainly not the rest of the world that's been doing it since, well, forever. 🙄
http://shirky.com/essays/situated-software/ #ClayShirky #SoftwareInnovation #SituatedSoftware #TechHistory #DialUp #HackerNews #ngated -
Making WiFi Sound Like Dial-Up Internet https://hackaday.com/2025/10/24/making-wifi-sound-like-dial-up-internet/ #internethacks #classichacks #dial-up #dialup #modem #wifi
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Making WiFi Sound Like Dial-Up Internet - Dial-up modems had a distinctive sound when connecting, with the glittering, scree... - https://hackaday.com/2025/10/24/making-wifi-sound-like-dial-up-internet/ #internethacks #classichacks #dial-up #dialup #modem #wifi
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AOL stellt nach über 40 Jahren den Dial-up-Internetdienst ein
AOL hat seinen legendären Dial-up-Internetzugang endgültig abgeschaltet. Mehr als 40 Jahre prägte der Dienst die Internetnutzung und war für viele der erste Kontakt mit der Online-Welt.Das Ende einer Ära bei A
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/aol-stellt-nach-ueber-40-jahren-den-dial-up-internetdienst-ein/
#News #Tellerrand #AOL #Apple #Breitband #Dialup #Internetdienste #Internetgeschichte #Modem #Technikgeschichte -
Enthusiasts bond twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up record: 668kbps
#HackerNews #Enthusiasts #DialUp #Modems #Record #668kbps #TechInnovation #RetroComputing
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Enthusiasts bond twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up record: 668kbps
#HackerNews #Enthusiasts #DialUp #Modems #Record #668kbps #TechInnovation #RetroComputing
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Enthusiasts bond twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up record: 668kbps
#HackerNews #Enthusiasts #DialUp #Modems #Record #668kbps #TechInnovation #RetroComputing
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Enthusiasts bond twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up record: 668kbps
#HackerNews #Enthusiasts #DialUp #Modems #Record #668kbps #TechInnovation #RetroComputing
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Enthusiasts bond twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up record: 668kbps
#HackerNews #Enthusiasts #DialUp #Modems #Record #668kbps #TechInnovation #RetroComputing
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Fine di un era! Dopo 30 anni stop al servizio di connessione dial-up 📞💻
Il 30 settembre 2025 chiude un pezzo di storia di internet: AOL, ex-America Online, interromperà il suo servizio dialup, conosciuto da tutti per il celebre suono di connessione via modem.
Così le connessioni via linea telefonica lasciano spazio alla rete internet in fibra e mobile. Ed è subito nostalgia: vi ricordate del suono dei vecchi 56k?
https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/aol-fine-un-era-30-anni-stop-servizio-connessione-dial-up-AHSACm9B
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Geeks Are Sexy: From 300 bps to 56K: The Glorious Noise of Getting Online. “Remember when the internet screamed at you before letting you online? Youtuber Retrocet has preserved the full symphony of dial-up modems in a compilation that takes us on a journey from the snail-paced 300 bps connections to the lightning-fast (at the time) 56K. Each shriek, screech, and static hiss is historically […]
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Geeks Are Sexy: From 300 bps to 56K: The Glorious Noise of Getting Online. “Remember when the internet screamed at you before letting you online? Youtuber Retrocet has preserved the full symphony of dial-up modems in a compilation that takes us on a journey from the snail-paced 300 bps connections to the lightning-fast (at the time) 56K. Each shriek, screech, and static hiss is historically […]
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Welcome to the #Bicyclopedia, where high-speed #knowledge meets dial-up image loading 🚴💨. If you're into reading descriptions of gears instead of seeing them, congratulations, you're living your best text-only #life 📜🔍. Remember, if you can't see the animations, it's not a bug, it's a feature—of the last century! 😂🕰️
https://bicyclopedia.lemoing.ca/ #HighSpeed #DialUp #TextOnly #HackerNews #ngated -
https://www.europesays.com/uk/366674/ Dial-up is finally dead, but maybe it wasn’t all that bad? #AOL #column #DialUp #GetConnected #Internet #InternetAccess #InternetConnection #Opinion #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom #voices #wifi #you
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I did not know AOL still offered dial-up service!
"AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after its debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day"
It's the end of an era...that I thought ended a long time ago.
#AOL #technews #AmericaOnline #dialup #modem #modems #ISP #internet #youvegotmail #news #computinghistory #nostalgia #PR
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I did not know AOL still offered dial-up service!
"AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after its debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day"
It's the end of an era...that I thought ended a long time ago.
#AOL #technews #AmericaOnline #dialup #modem #modems #ISP #internet #youvegotmail #news #computinghistory #nostalgia #PR
