Things are moving too fast, we should go back to 56K - ThreadSky

surfthrash.bsky.social • 205 days ago

Things are moving too fast, we should go back to 56K

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I wonder if my 14 year old self would have ever believed that some day I'd have a 3 million k internet connection in my home.

goldich.bsky.social•205 days ago

Modem times were awful. It took way too long for pictures of Heidi Klum to load.
Early 2000s with 1 MBit/s was better. Also the graphics on a Nvidia GForce 2 MX 🙌🏻

alhadis.bsky.social•204 days ago

On the plus side, we spent way more time *offline* enjoying the pleasures of gaming consoles and those CD-ROMs full of shareware that were included with every issue of a computer magazine subscription.

Hell, MS-DOS brought me more happiness than the Web ever did…

goldich.bsky.social•204 days ago

Fully agree. When you write Shareware you remind me that since then I didn't pay for WinRAR 😅

alhadis.bsky.social•204 days ago

Lol, why bother? RAR is a proprietary format, and there are so many better *open* compression and archive formats to choose from instead.

I'd also classify WinRAR as "nagware" instead of "shareware", BTW.

margretkmargret.bsky.social•201 days ago

totally agree!!!!!!!!!

jerle.bsky.social•204 days ago

Yeah, back to those days where whise men said things like "640K ought to be enough for anybody" or "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." 🤔

zelwinters1981.bsky.social•204 days ago

Fuck that.

blackcheeseburger.bsky.social•205 days ago

Real old school.

gabe.io•204 days ago

Nah where’s my punch cards at.

alhadis.bsky.social•204 days ago

What flavour of EBCDIC are we usin' today, Mr. Gabe?

bestjason.bsky.social•205 days ago

Actually! It just felt more special back then.

akronism.bsky.social•205 days ago

I can hear that thing booting up

destroyedlolo.bsky.social•205 days ago

In such case, I would prefer to (still) avoid windows95 and use a smarter and interesting computer 😍
https://youtu.be/zq8BnATnDDI?si=HQY8LTI08bF-YDJz

nofixedaddress.xyz•204 days ago

It is dark. You are about to be eaten by a grue.

nofixedaddress.xyz•204 days ago

AT&F1E1Q0V1&C1&D2S0=0

Is it pitiful I can still recognise what speed a modem is connecting to the host by just listening to the audio feedback through the pico speaker in the modem while it is connecting?