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Posted on 07-29-09 07:13:40 AM

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I'm still using one of my old Web 1.0 free space thing for image hosting.

Basically, their anti-hotlink thing doesn't know about .pngs, so I can freely abuse them.

They never did update it to fix that.

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Posted on 07-29-09 01:45:07 PM

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Remember when the computer screens were green?

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Posted on 07-29-09 04:47:05 PM

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Posted on 07-30-09 05:46:58 AM

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I remember when 56k seemed so fast. Download a 1MB file in under 10 minutes, wow!

Then I got DSL.

And recently I got even better DSL.

So yeah. Screw nostalgia.

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Posted on 07-30-09 06:05:41 AM

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28.8k is also probably the slowest I've ever used, and this was in like, 2005. I was quite poor and had an old ass computer and no extra modems but some old-ass ISA modem that was the size of an SB16 (I also had an SB16 ISA :p). I used bittorrent on it, and got a good like, 2-3KB/s

A long time ago I had AOL (not too long ago, maybe 2000?) that was simply uselessly slow it had to have connected at somewhere around 9600 baud, since trying to download a demo of Doom took about a day (This was AOL 3.0, earliest we had was 2.5.).

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Posted on 07-30-09 06:12:34 AM

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I was always there with 56k or faster. Even back in 1998, when I first encountered the internet.

It was quite nice, considering the alternative (slow) choices.

Remember when ISDN was the major 'fast connection' choice?

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Posted on 08-04-09 04:48:52 PM

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Posted on 08-04-09 11:34:49 PM

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Originally posted by FirePhoenix
I remember having AOL Dialup. God that sucked.

I got my AOL for free by complaining once a month. Never paid a godamn thing to their overpriced internet.

Sad thing is that I was stuck on Dial up for awhile now. Until I convinced my family to get DSL. They were happy on the price and that I was not on the phone line no more

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Posted on 08-07-09 10:17:44 PM

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Originally posted by Drag
Remember when we were all on 800x600 and on 56k? Tying up the second phone line so I can browse the internets...

Yeah, that wasn't really great.

Second phone line? Ha, I only had one.

What sucked was when I accidentally left it on one night and tried calling my parents while I was somewhere else... D:

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Posted on 08-07-09 11:34:39 PM

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oh good god I had completely forgotten about dealing with dialup and one phone line. I think AOL would just disconnect when someone called... but AOL would just disconnect anyway, so who's to say.

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Posted on 08-08-09 05:20:54 AM

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No no, you didn't forget that. You just managed to block it out of your memory. It never happened.

Then again, who can forget having to get off the internet so that someone could make a phone call if you only had one line.

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Posted on 08-08-09 06:18:07 AM

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I don't know, I guess it's like how I never think about the times I'd carry a portable tape recorder I painstakingly saved $20 to buy so I could listen to music I recorded from the radio. it just sounds so ghetto.

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Posted on 08-08-09 08:54:34 PM

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Didn't EVERYONE do that at some point, though?

I was lucky - I just grabbed stuff from my dad's expansive record collection. I'd need quite a few iPod's to fit all that stuff on there... need to take a picture of it one day if we have a collection thread.

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Posted on 08-08-09 09:24:17 PM

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Originally posted by yde
I don't know, I guess it's like how I never think about the times I'd carry a portable tape recorder I painstakingly saved $20 to buy so I could listen to music I recorded from the radio. it just sounds so ghetto.

I did this a lot when I was younger. I would be so close to the speaker with my tape player/recorder.

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Posted on 08-09-09 07:11:56 PM

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Originally posted by devin
I believe I was introduced to it through none other than beloved Acmlm's Board poet laureate GAMEBOY 64 (remember that guy?)

I think he's still around the Pokemon Community forums... He's known as Jeremy now and he says stuff like "hello, sweeties" and whatnot.

Frightful.

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Posted on 08-09-09 09:47:14 PM

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He's known as Jeremy now and he says stuff like "hello, sweeties" and whatnot.

...Who thinks up these gimmicks?!? Christ.

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Posted on 08-10-09 07:32:37 AM

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Originally posted by Supakitsune
Originally posted by devin
I believe I was introduced to it through none other than beloved Acmlm's Board poet laureate GAMEBOY 64 (remember that guy?)
I think he's still around the Pokemon Community forums... He's known as Jeremy now and he says stuff like "hello, sweeties" and whatnot.

Frightful.

is he still going to marry samus? am I thinking of the right guy?

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Posted on 08-10-09 05:03:37 PM

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Originally posted by Supakitsune
Originally posted by devin
I believe I was introduced to it through none other than beloved Acmlm's Board poet laureate GAMEBOY 64 (remember that guy?)
I think he's still around the Pokemon Community forums... He's known as Jeremy now and he says stuff like "hello, sweeties" and whatnot.

Frightful.

I'm not sure which is worse, the fact that he's still around, or the fact that you still go to Pokemon Community forums.

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Posted on 08-10-09 07:13:58 PM

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haha I remember the changing of files to .txt.

Anyone remember EYEdintification? Worst sim-battler ever.

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