dealanexmachina:atopfourthwall:commodorez:texelations: texelations:I’ve been on the internet
dealanexmachina: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. When my parents first got the internet it was timed. Like, a flat rate for a certain amount of time you were allowed to be on it just like old phone minutes or texting limits.I used up all the time a couple times searching fanfic and my sister on some chat thing she giggled over with her friend during slumber parties, so my parents put their foot down about “wasting” it. I got the most flack because I was “just reading” and not “really using it”.So, what I had do was logon, get to the fanfic archive, frantically search for the first good summary (title if there weren’t summaries) and click on it, then run to the other room where the modem cable connected and pull it out to ensure I wasn’t logged on while reading. Find out the fic is bad/reach the end/need to go to the next chapter, run back out and plug the modem back in and repeat.It was so fucking slow too. My go-to method was to get on the fic, then rapidly click the scroll down button on the side of the browser and start reading until I got to the end of what I could see, then wait for the scrolling to creep the text up up. Sometimes the internet/page was a DICK and loaded without moving for a long time and skipped over chunks. I just had to deal with it and guess what happened between points A and B because that was gone. I’d blown by it and would need to wait the 10-20 minutes for it to reach the end of the fic/chapter, then scroll back up, then back down.To this day (and probably for the rest of my life) I sometimes pause while scrolling and think back to that and marvel at how easy it is now. -- source link
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