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ihavethatonvinyl.com • 1 day ago

i immediately heard the AOL sign in sounds upon seeing this. take me back

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we used to respect the computer

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grogg.bsky.social•1 day ago

I made a silly dialup joke today on a call with a couple of my 40-something friends and then was sad because folks five years younger than me won't remember the struggle.

ihavethatonvinyl.com•1 day ago

i had a compaq presario in 1996, running windows 95 (rip to a great one). 16 mb of ram and a 1 gb hard drive. those were the days. you had to really work for what you wanted to do or see on that computer. slow as hell, but we had no frame of reference for that so thought it was amazing

sammarlowe.bsky.social•22 hours ago

You’d have that whole set up and you’d still have to stay late at work to use the T1 to play Half Life 😭

rodericka1.bsky.social•1 day ago

lmao yeah, one really had to want it back then. You want to see a 2 megapixel photo? That will be 4.5 minutes. You want to download the latest Guster song? Buddy you might as well pencil in 2 hours and then hope it's not actually the Jerky Boys or something.

ihavethatonvinyl.com•1 day ago

i was just thinking about exchanging wavs before mp3s came along. sending a whole song was an all day project