#dialupnostalgia — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #dialupnostalgia, aggregated by home.social.
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Ah, the halcyon days of dial-up 🕰️ when downloading was a test of patience instead of download speed. Today, we bask in the glory of AI model weights—because who needs cryptography when we can just look at a neural network's diet plan? 🤖🍔 #Progress!
https://weeraman.com/because-we-can/ #dialupnostalgia #AIweights #technologyprogress #neuralnetworks #digitaltransformation #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, the halcyon days of dial-up 🕰️ when downloading was a test of patience instead of download speed. Today, we bask in the glory of AI model weights—because who needs cryptography when we can just look at a neural network's diet plan? 🤖🍔 #Progress!
https://weeraman.com/because-we-can/ #dialupnostalgia #AIweights #technologyprogress #neuralnetworks #digitaltransformation #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨 Breaking: Microsoft bravely sets a new world record for #inefficiency with Windows 11, a groundbreaking achievement in the art of doing less with more. 🤦♂️ Meanwhile, users are left reminiscing fondly about the blistering speed of dial-up internet. 🐢💨
https://www.eteknix.com/microsoft-may-have-created-the-slowest-windows-in-25-years-with-windows-11/ #MicrosoftWindows11 #TechNews #DialUpNostalgia #BreakingNews #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨 Breaking: Microsoft bravely sets a new world record for #inefficiency with Windows 11, a groundbreaking achievement in the art of doing less with more. 🤦♂️ Meanwhile, users are left reminiscing fondly about the blistering speed of dial-up internet. 🐢💨
https://www.eteknix.com/microsoft-may-have-created-the-slowest-windows-in-25-years-with-windows-11/ #MicrosoftWindows11 #TechNews #DialUpNostalgia #BreakingNews #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀 Introducing yet another utopian internet concept that promises to save #humanity from itself! 🦄 Spoiler alert: it's just a glorified throwback to dial-up days—because who doesn't miss #buffering and eternal loading screens? 🙄
https://taggart-tech.com/ringspace/ #utopianinternet #dialupnostalgia #problems #technologyhumor #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀 Introducing yet another utopian internet concept that promises to save #humanity from itself! 🦄 Spoiler alert: it's just a glorified throwback to dial-up days—because who doesn't miss #buffering and eternal loading screens? 🙄
https://taggart-tech.com/ringspace/ #utopianinternet #dialupnostalgia #problems #technologyhumor #HackerNews #ngated -
Some 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible, not the stuff invented with the birth of the world wide web in the late 1980s, 2013 for flip sale. An interesting stroll down memory lane.
Via the bbc. My journey to the heart of the forgotten internet
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250731-a-journey-into-the-heart-of-the-forgotten-internet?at_objective=awareness&at_ptr_type=email&at_email_send_date=20250808&at_send_id=4424793&at_link_title=https%3a%2f%2fwww.bbc.com%2ffuture%2farticle%2f20250731-a-journey-into-the-heart-of-the-forgotten-internet&at_bbc_team=crm#EarlyInternet
#DigitalHistory
#WebArchive
#DialUpNostalgia
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Ah yes, because what the world truly needs is a "Progressive JSON" that gives us the joy of waiting for incomplete data to slowly reveal itself, as if JSON wasn't already painful enough. But sure, let's all pay for the privilege of watching our data load like a dial-up internet image from the 90s! 🙄📡
https://overreacted.io/progressive-json/ #ProgressiveJSON #LoadingFrustrations #TechHumor #DataLoading #DialUpNostalgia #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah yes, because what the world truly needs is a "Progressive JSON" that gives us the joy of waiting for incomplete data to slowly reveal itself, as if JSON wasn't already painful enough. But sure, let's all pay for the privilege of watching our data load like a dial-up internet image from the 90s! 🙄📡
https://overreacted.io/progressive-json/ #ProgressiveJSON #LoadingFrustrations #TechHumor #DataLoading #DialUpNostalgia #HackerNews #ngated -
If anyone wants to find out how 1990's style dial-up ISP's configured their equipment or how the equipment of that era works then I can recommend a channel:
TheSerialPort
https://www.youtube.com/@theserialport
If you are interested in Terminal Servers, Cobalt RaQ equipment or how the CISCO PIX Firewall saved the Internet then this channel is for you 😉
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If anyone wants to find out how 1990's style dial-up ISP's configured their equipment or how the equipment of that era works then I can recommend a channel:
TheSerialPort
https://www.youtube.com/@theserialport
If you are interested in Terminal Servers, Cobalt RaQ equipment or how the CISCO PIX Firewall saved the Internet then this channel is for you 😉
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The last time science fiction was all in one place
https://doctorow.medium.com/when-the-town-square-shatters-a7377ed4eff
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The last time science fiction was all in one place
https://doctorow.medium.com/when-the-town-square-shatters-a7377ed4eff