coldbrood: traegorn:atopfourthwall:commodorez:texelations: texelations:I’ve been on the inte
coldbrood: traegorn:atopfourthwall:commodorez:texelations: texelations: I’ve been on the internet since 1998 starter pack Reblog this if you are an old fogey online Reblog this instead if you are a young whippersnapper Things this starter pack simply does not convey: The unholy shrieking of the dial-up modem The computer hanging up on the internet when someone called How damn long everything took to load Having multiple windows open in the task bar because there was no such thing as a tabbed browser IRC bots The frantic search for the midi player when a webpage started playing music Putting videos on to download overnight jpg compression on photos taken with the webcam This: No tabs, taskbar-only web browsing.We die like Web 1.0 surfers. HAHAHAHAHAHA4 GIG HARD DRIVE.YOU ARE LIKE LITTLE BABY.I REMEMBER WHEN HARD DRIVES WERE IN THE HUNDREDS OF MEGABYTES, IF EVEN THAT MUCH. 1995.Accessing Usenet and browsing the web using text only LYNX via a BBS run by the local University.On a 386.A hundred megabytes was a luxury. excuse me but did the internet ever actually hang up when someone called? i think when someone called they just got the internet sound, it didn’t go through. but if you picked up your own phone it would hang the internet up. i am old but i didn’t get a computer or internet until 1998 so maybe i missed something. If you were a fancy pants person with call waiting, the beep could screw up your connection and you’d get disconnected from the internet. I had a friend who that’d happen to all the time. -- source link
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