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[tucstwo]

Ok so with all the hoopla about 3G and 4G and whatnot, is there anyone on this forum who had to dial up onto the Internet on 14.4K (or slower?)! I remember for my birthday getting a 56K modem and being happy as a pig. Now here we are talking about speed tests of 20 mb/s ON A GOD DAMN CELL PHONE!!!??? What blows my mind even more is that in the future one day we will laugh about 20 mb/s and how slow it is compared to our several yottabits per second (1bit X 10^24)! It's crazy how times change. /rant

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[Papasmurf]

I remember logging in to AOL on that dial up modem. And I also remember the fights that happened when someone picked up the phone. Lol

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[hootowlserenade]

I actually remember 9600 baud..... the modem was almost as big as my PS3... it was cutting edge when I was young(er) lol... I used it on a Tandy 1000SX.... if you remember that computer you admit your age lol

"640K ought to be enough for anybody" - Bill Gates 1981

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[VantenKiest]

found a 2mb hard drive in my collection of crap.. and i remember trying to cal my aunt and knocking my mother off the bbs ..

[EmericanX]

Lol... my first pc had a 486sx! I remember being stoked to upgrade to a 486dx to get the math co-processor... woot woot!

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[Groundhound]

300 baud with an acoustic coupler. Yes I am an old fart.

[trikotret]

I remember trying to dial up into Aol middle of the night and got yelled at by my wife for the loud dialing and connection. Trying to sleep. Good old days

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[snives]

Yeah... My first computer was a Headstart II.

[trekie4ever]

I remember when I was a wee lad of 3/4 my moms good ol magnavox 386 lol. Happiest day of my life was upgrading to the pent II gateway 2000 with a whopping 32 mb of ram and a 4gb HD. Lol I was mad my friend had 64 mb! The journeys I had with that thing..... nostalgic....

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[tucstwo]

I remember when I was a wee lad of 3/4 my moms good ol magnavox 386 lol. Happiest day of my life was upgrading to the pent II gateway 2000 with a whopping 32 mb of ram and a 4gb HD. Lol I was mad my friend had 64 mb! The journeys I had with that thing..... nostalgic....

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Right! After the 486 they started with the Pentium with 400ghz!!!! Man that thing was fast, now my goddam phone is 3 times that speed and my Ti-nspire calculator is pretty close to it. And storage, jeeze. 64 gig SD cards and I remember installing games and programs that used 12+ 1.2mb floppy discs. Then when the CD-ROM was released the possibilities were ENDLESS! and a CD is (only) 700mb!

[hootowlserenade]

Here's one for everybody:

Who remembers using an operating system called OS/2 ?

Man it was a pretty looking os.... for its time....

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[Memnoch73]

Oh yeah I remember the Aol, modem, floppy disk age too... Thank god for technology leaps!!

Before I read this thread I thought the title was Speed dating (myself). I thought why are you going on a speed date with yourself. Lol...

[Droid2drummer]

Sadly... I remember the ice pick and Vic20.. yes the 80s...lol

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[Droid2drummer]

Ok so with all the hoopla about 3G and 4G and whatnot, is there anyone on this forum who had to dial up onto the Internet on 14.4K (or slower?)! I remember for my birthday getting a 56K modem and being happy as a pig. Now here we are talking about speed tests of 20 mb/s ON A GOD DAMN CELL PHONE!!!??? What blows my mind even more is that in the future one day we will laugh about 20 mb/s and how slow it is compared to our several yottabits per second (1bit X 10^24)! It's crazy how times change. /rant

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I read somewhere of new tech being tested that will possibly replace lte with speeds 1000 times as fast... hmmmm... that's called instant! Lol

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[Kirbnite]

Lol - Oh the "Tandy 1000" - That was the computer that replaced my "Coleco Adam" PC- Took cartridges and cassette tapes.

I clearly remember using the new Tandy on my 2400 baud modem and connecting to local Bulletin Boards.

Oh and how jealous I was when a friend got a 9600 baud. Oh the memories of riding my bike 2 miles every day, just so I could enjoy his high speed.

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[cvhovey]

I still remember my first computer, a Kaypro II running the CP/M operating system that cost just over $3K with bundled software. It had a staggering 64K RAM, two 5-1/4" floppies (I think 160K each) and a built in 14.4 modem that hauled around 9K at best.

[EmericanX]

So with the folks talking about AOL.. any of you use it before it was a browser as well? Remember those golden days when you had to setup a proxy through ie or netscape navigator to see what was the internet? Lol

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[trekie4ever]

Who remembers good Ol netzero and bypassing the monthly 10 he limit by registering new accounts.... or Kmart's blue light special... and blocking all the ads lol. Man I did a lot when I was 8 yrs old! Downloading new drivers for a day and yelling at the family for trying to use the phone... picking up the phone and hanging up and mashing a bunch of numbers to kick the sister off the net... *sigh

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[tucstwo]

Did any of you aol users run an hacker "warez" such ax "AOLHell", etc? Email/IM bomb people, terrorizing chat rooms, steal passwords? Oh thank God for the original "Devs" for making my AOL 3.0 time worth while!


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