When we had 56k dail up, it was more fun. Now boring and dull

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SophieSkyrim1984 11 hours ago

Glad I am not invested as much and slowly coming away more from the internet, spending less and less time on it. When I was a kid, it excited me to go onto NETSCAPE and browse and now it is more of an effort and has no pay off.

" Better of using something less and less when that is more rewarding than using it more"

I feel that the internet has become less important, than it did back in my day when it was 56k dail up and you needed a land line too use it. It was more exciting then and now it is less important and more dull and boring..

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saranacX 11 hours ago

Lol not for me. Certain things from the past I don't miss. Dial up is definitely one of them. 5kb/sec download speeds? 300 ping in CS on a good day? No thanks.

Also not having to play your games partially off your CD-ROM. I don't miss that either. Full installs were a blessing. Not depending on the speed of your cd-rom drive is a good thing, with the skips and so on, and if your disc had a scratch in the wrong place?

TGC> The Games Collector 11 hours ago

If you have to wait 10 minutes to download a jpeg, it had better be an amazing work of art.
The artist also knew this, and put more effort in the works.

-OrLoK- Слава Україн 11 hours ago

I come from a pre internet and pre home computer age.

The internet is better than ever, apart from a few spots.

*looks at Twitter*

Ricky 11 hours ago

DAIL UP!

also no.. the internet is more exciting than ever now, its also filled with a bunch more foolishness as well.. but stupidity exists everywhere, at least now we have stats by watching all the jackasses on youtube.

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doomshadow612 11 hours ago

No. Dial up was awful. I love my fibre

Vox 11 hours ago

Don't copy that floppy lol.

Despiser 11 hours ago

Computers have lost that frontier feeling. It was such a rush when I made a paint program in Assembly language, moving bytes around the computer's internal registers to form a fully functional program was exhiliarating. Now we are likely to let AI dictate our thoughts. Pretty sad how it evolved. Great for science and engineering but not so much for the rest of us.

tom red band 10 hours ago

I remember pirating Team America and it took a whole weekend to download on 56k

Crazy Tiger 10 hours ago

Originally posted by SophieSkyrim1984:
When I was a kid, it excited me...

Yes, and you're simply not a kid anymore. don't expect the same kind of excitement.

I don't think I'll ever get the dial-up sound out of my mind. Just because of this thread I hear it in my head again.

Tito Shivan 10 hours ago

It wasn't more fun. I was there.
You're just looking at it through nostalgia glasses.

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Crazy Tiger 10 hours ago

Originally posted by saranacX:
Lol not for me. Certain things from the past I don't miss. Dial up is definitely one of them. 5kb/sec download speeds? 300 ping in CS on a good day? No thanks.

Also not having to play your games partially off your CD-ROM. I don't miss that either. Full installs were a blessing. Not depending on the speed of your cd-rom drive is a good thing, with the skips and so on, and if your disc had a scratch in the wrong place?

I once had a game disc of a game I played a lot explode in the disk drive. Had to get a new drive as well, laser was damaged.

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Despiser 10 hours ago

Originally posted by tom red band:
I remember pirating Team America and it took a whole weekend to download on 56k

If you don't get a virus or identity stolen. I ran a website with the safest place to access pirated software but it was shut down by the host a few years ago. Just making that site was an enormous risk that wiped out my computer twice and had to constantly change my credit cards. Even the most effective protection software only works up to a point. The scary part is, identity theft is often not caught until it's too late.

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