ITT:
The Dial-up days
>>55519850
i'm actually going back to dial-up in a few days. wish me luck
>>55519850
>He didn't use the "free" version of Opera
>He didn't browse with images disabled
>>55519850
>not using download accelerator plus to manage and improve the speed of your image downloads
wtf nigga
>>55519850
thank god I never experienced that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abapFJN6glo
>>55519925
underage b&
http://www.compuglobalhypermeganet.org
It was always worth the wait.
>>55519957
Anon the earliest home broadband connections started cropping up in the mid 90's. About 20 years ago.
>>55519957
I'm 18
I have 3Mbs and loading 2-3MB images feels like this.
>>55519968
dang dude you must have a super computer to render that pic
2010 was the year I got off of dial-up.
Never again.
>visit porn site
>find a BJ "scene" of Charlie (Garcia)
>scene is split into 10 clips
>each clip ~5 sec long
>takes forever to download
>the anticipation is killing me
>Windows media player doesn't support playlists
>open 10 separate instances of media player
>one instance per clip
>hit play on all the instances
>commence self-gratification
First online purchase was $15 for lifetime Platinum.
This video is so comfy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWq4DWfrpu8
Waiting for 3 minutes for an image to buffer and just as the interesting part comes, somehow the connection used to get interrupted and then it's another 5 minutes trying to connect to internet.
Also that sweet dialup comm sounds.
>>55519978
broad band didn't get 'affordable' till the 2000's and most people who used it/had it back then had a need for it, not the dick around on the internet need we have now.
>>55519870
The one with gay dating site ads?
>>55519925
Literal underage b& please go
This is a thread for adults
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>>55520733
I remember back when we didn't have an internet connection my brother and me used a fax machine to call some game magazine that offered cheat codes. The fax machine then gave us some dank cheat codes. We were heroes among our friends man.
>>55520841
i would have to call my brother, have him log on, write the codes and call me back to tell them to me. ahh..... those were kind of alright times...
>>55520733
Does that even work?
>>55520638
I got 50 KB/s cable modem connection in 1996
>>55520638
Are you retarded? I live in fucking Alabama and I had broadband in the early 2000s
The same thing still happens with DSL.
![hellowebpage[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/O3tsv27.jpg "hellowebpage[1].jpg")
>>55521657
the same thing still happens on 4chan with my 50/50 mbit fiber connection
>>55521657
>>55522044
are you guys talking about my netscape pic? 4chins does that to me also on 30/6 mb. 2016 and the internet is still shit lmao
Fuck, thinking about dial-up gives me the shivers. I remember having to leave web pages open while I did other things so they could load properly. It took me weeks to get through the information I look at now in an hour or two. I remember the first time I used cable internet, I fucking nearly came and called mediaone to get my own installed immediately. It's funny thinking back on that how spoiled I've gotten. Now I get pissed off if one site in hundreds of tabs takes a second or two too long to load up.
>>55519943
nice
>>55520072
>Charlie
I recall her. She looks so slutty and hot hnngg
>>55519972
>masterbate
>master
>ter
>e
>>55520072
>Charlie Garcia
My nigga.
>>55522513
What I used to do was wget entire websites for offline reading when we had free or off peak calls at the weekend.
My life was so much better when I didn't have 24/7 access, I got so much more done.
>>55520175
damn, this reminds me there was a time when it was cooler to spend your friday on your PC than with your friends
>>55519870
>not using emacs and a wget script
>>55519968
Aww man I waited over a minute for that 354KB to load and it was all tease.
Still gonna save though since I paid for that bandwidth.
every porn jpg I downloaded in the dialup days was a holy artifact to be treasured, whether it turned me on or not
I recently found a backup CD-R I burnt in 2000 with a hidden stash of pron that I completely forgot about. Have fun.
https://mega.nz/#!ex4QFLJb!Hii3cOTQ-yHXhtgTexG9WDIorcM0sKGjv4HHfjqSYYc
>>55519850
could you guys please stop posting pictures? This site already takes forever to load.
>>55525569
>>55520175
Is this a joke? The internet was nothing like that.
>Game suddenly starts lagging out
>Connection lost icon appears
>"Anon get off the Internet right now! I need to make a phone call!"
Dial up was the fucking worst
>tfw you barely used dialup because you had a fulfilling childhood spent outside with friends
>>55526282
So it's not because you're 17?
>>55526282
>fulfilling childhood spent outside with friends
that doesn't even make sense
>>55526282
does it count as "outside" if you went out to a lan cafe to play counterstrike with strangers?
Back in the BBS days we knew this older kid that ran a porn BBS. Got access. Downloaded porn at 2500bps. You could see each pixel download. It would take 10 minutes for a full image, like 640x480. That anticipation when the first nipple pixels started showing up.
>>55525661
it's literally a video of a guy using the internet in 1998, I'm not sure what you find objectionable here
>>55519850
Please send me more links to Aryan Women In Wheat Fields, please.
Regards,
[email protected]
>>55519978
I got the first broadband home connection in 2007. 2GB cap running at 512Kb/s.
Finally upgraded in 2011 to 5GB cap, then to... Idk, 60GB cap in 2014 at 2Mb/s. Such is life in South Africa.
>>55519850
I came
>>55521385
Are you retarded? Of course they work.
>>55519850
>when I faped on free6 with my 56k and saw a shemale for te 1st time of my life
>>55526282
>implying being outside is more fulfilling than using the internet
I still kinda miss that terrible sound modems made when dialing to the ISP
Probably because every time I heard it, fun times were to come.
What chat rooms did you oldfags use?
I used to go to MTV chat and Yahoo!
yeah rotten.com and AOL chatrooms with punters
I used to be on some AOL porn mailing list. each video was like a 5 minute clip and would take a nice hour to download
realplayer
>>55528529
runescape. Planet Hotwheels.
Those were the days.
>>55521900
I can still hear his voice.
>>55519968
Look at this richfag with his 1600x1200 Princeton Graphics CRT while the rest of us scrubs sand our eyeballs with mere 1280x1024.
>>55519978
>ISDN
>broadband
kekkled m80
>>55521602
total bro/10
>>55525661
>dumbass thinks IRC is "the internet" in that video
back to plebbit, scrub
>>55525569
I had forgotten the people actually used to say this in forum threads all.the.time.
>>55526282
>implying that you didn't use dialup because you were still an infant
Underage ban here, mods.
>>55528529
Yahoo Games. I was pretty badass at Pool.
i frequent a forum where users still put "56k warning!" in their thread titles when using images/videos
>>55528749
I played the fuck out of Towers
Once I learned to master the X combo I felt like a god
>>55528751
Which forum?
>>55528751
IGN?
>aol h4x0ring
>star tool
>winsock and formmail.cgi spammers
>making password crackers in vb
>harvesting a few hundo screennames from lobby chats, loading up a password list with "abc123" "123456" "password" "iloveu" and "nsync" and getting 300+ stolen accounts per day
>getting the family blacklisted from aol
>phishing overhead and HOST accounts for unlimited chat scrolling and permagagging
>idling in pr VB with all the spammers and crackers chatsending
>getting weed money from adult revenue service because you made an activex page that auto-installs a dialer program
>obsessively aquiring leet and 3chr screennames
I miss being a 13 year old shitlord on AOL
{s drop
>>55528844
>>55528854
id rather not expose them to the taint of 4chan
i consider the users there like some lost tribe that hasnt been in contact with the rest of humanity for centuries, they must be protected
>>55524688
Haha I see what you mean, thanks for sharing!
>>55519850
remember the hun's list?
>>55529156
And pic related.
>Spend all night downloading Wing Commander II demo over a 2400baud modem
>no gameplay, just cinematics with awful voice acting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08Y0qwFLt54
let me just install some internet
>>55528913
Saltworld?
>>55529591
>mfw we used to measure internet usage in "hours"
>>55529911
>tfw you accidentally dial to a long distance server and your 90 minute connection costs your parents $300 in long distance phone charges.
>>55528731
I was born in 1984 and didn't get a computer until windows XP came out
>>55519978
Unless hes dad was a high ranking engineer or developer, there's no way he would have had broadband or anything related in the mid 90's.
>>55520175
>should I buy a voodoo2?
the comfiest
this thread makes me cry and makes me realize how the internet turned into total garbage
>>55524688
Thanks, I still have a few porn CD's what came with image browsers for DOS/Win.
>>55530000
I got mine with windows 2000
Wish I had saved the case...;_;
>first pc had win98
>used that until xp
>used xp until win 10
http://www.warnerbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm
I love how they still kept it up all these years.
>>55529911
>>mfw we used to measure internet usage in "hours"
One hour at a time. Usually because the "ISP" was a kid with a PC in his bedroom and 2 phone lines. You can't get tech support until he comes home from school.
>>55529943
>THIS.
Thank god within a few months of me having dial-up, we had a local provider.
Best name for a company ever too, "Modem Madness".
>>55529943
One thing to be grateful for I guess, dialers no longer are prominent.
>>55530132
>AOL was a kid in hes bedroom
wtf
>tfw 3mb PNGs still load like that for me in $CURRENT_YEAR
Hey can an oldfag post a screenshot of 4chan from back around 2003? I just think it's nice.
>>55530331
Nah, it's just 4chin's slow image server and connection
>>55530333
you just made me scroll all the way back in my image archive
>>55519870
>he didn't use Netscape Navigator
>>55519866
But... why?
>>55526923
Do you download much? Or do you use sneakernet sharing or something. Really wish I could trade files with someone irl, just swapping cool, rare stuff.
>>55519968
>>55519968
Is that Sabrina the Teenage Witch??? Where was this my whole childhood!
damn...
the primitive age of furry porn
>>55530650
That artist is still around.
To be honest he's way better now.
>>55530333
Old man here, happy?
>>55530873
>1438523923165
poser
>>55530954
No one from 2003 exists anon, the best you are getting is a man from early '05 delivering what was requested.
>>55528608
>1280x1024
>not 1024x768 or even 800x600
>>55530995
But anon, they do.
I know a few despite only being here since 2012.
>>55530333
I have more if you'd like
Who Neopets here?
>>55531239
Holy shit I remember that left pane. Except I probably started coming to 4chan in '06 or later iirc, my nostalgia chode is at full mast now.
>>55530650
>tfw you find doug winger
>only all a small ethernet cabel
>add to take the tower + huge 17'' monitor to the hall were the phone was
good times
>>55531487
i started browsing 4chan on dialup
shit was so cache
>>55531335
The left pane was so much better imo. I miss it dearly.
>>55519866
rest in rip faggot
>>55531618
the reason i didn't.
fucking gif banners were overkill
>>55519850
I wish I had backed up all my screenshots from back in those days
>>55531335
i miss the board selector a lot.
>>55530873
>Guro
I remember when we saw pics from there and ogrish with my friends, those were the days.
>>55531697
if you mean the frames mode you can still select it from the homepage
>>55531747
Fuckin A, thank you, Anon.
>>55530650
Kek, you call that primitive, '97?
>>55519925
Funny thing is I can legally sell cigarettes to kids that were born around the time broadband came to my town of Bumfuck Hicksville USA. This guy could easily have never experienced dial up and be an adult.
I think we had around 16 kbps until I was almost 18
>>55530333
I don't have any ;_;
>>55530995
Some of us still lurk, we resist /pol/ invasion by the nazis from stormfront forum and the NSA NothingToHide™ spam.
Anyone remember stick death?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQI4MZc1FL8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQI4MZc1FL8
>the early 2000's when streaming didn't exist
>all you had was the free preview clips
awful times
More stick fun for you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOwLu323AGU
I experienced this. It took 5-10 minutes to download one picture.
Remember me? Pic related.
>>55531806
oh shit that nostalgia
>>55519850
this is my baby atm
>>55532175
Fuck AOL and Prodigy, it was all about based CompuServe.
>>55532114
did somebody say usenet?
>>55532187
>>55532277
hey, i used to have that case!
>>55523628
>9 year old me
>a friend phones me after school
>"hey wanna come over to my house and play tabletop games, toy cars and stuff?"
>"sorry, today is the day I'm allowed to use the family PC" (the other days would be my brothers')
>my brothers still call me a fag because I rather be at home playing games
>yet, they won't trade their PC day with me
>stay home playing AoE w/ protonman cheat, making maps where a bunch of lions and villagers fight each other to the death
>feels good man
>>55519850
>the dial-up noise
>>55519850
I remember when I was about 6-7 years old, my older brother would look for random geocities sites and download a bunch of DBZ images
The raditz saga just aired in my country so we were amazed at a 5 sec gif of vegeta turning SSJ beating a purple guy (I believe it was a movie scene)
We thought the red-haired guy that gave trunks the sword was actually a "boom phase" super saiyan
We didn't have internet at home so we used my dad's office server. The room was cold as fuck.
We had like 15 images on queue, feeling badass as fuck
>Making boot disks to run Doom on my first ever proper computer that wasn't a Commodore 64
>Playing Starcraft on my IBM compatible
>Dialing in to the server, hoping to get a connection
>Dropping out mid game and having to re-dial
>Parents getting the phone bill and grounding you for running up charges for auto-redial
>Making batch files for different game boots
>X-tree gold
>Buying my firts ever GPU, a Riva TnT and it wasn't the right card to fit in the pci slot.
Good times.
>>55528608
>tfw I'm still running 1280x1024
>>55533057
Me too, it's nice resolution.
I also just don't give a fuck anymore.
>>55532175
>>55532187
>>55532277
Oh my god, someone else is running an AT board. Just when I thought I should get rid of all my old computer stuff.. Faack. There is something so cozy about the old computers that the new ones just don't have..
>>55525625
dis preaking cringey mate
>>55531239
what board was this posted on?
>>55526282
>ended up on 4chan
what went wrong?
people liek you usually end up in reddit
>>55519968
Not grainy enough desu.
File size is ok, kind of at the upper-end. A lot of images were under 100k.
>>55528608
Dude, that's like 2003+ you're talking about, you mean more like hes 1024x768 monitor while we still are on our shitty 800x600 boxes.
>>55533618
Then again the 1500x1000 image resolution
in >>55519968 is right out, even if filesize is ok.
>>55533618
way to big, this is more like it
>>55533657
It's not too big, just kinda big. I could download a 1.44 MB disk image in 15 minutes on my 14.4K modem. This pic would take several minutes, and most were smaller, but it's not impossibly big.
Also the pic comes from a BBS archive. I got it from textfiles.com or similar place.
>>55533734
gif was easier on the CPU where jpeg was faster to download and better to store
>>55533629
I used a 2048*1536@60Hz monitor in 2002.
I liked the 1280*960 at 90Hz more though.
>>55531490
Yikes.
This and Animewallpapers.com was dope.
But my favorite small time site was kasiwagi
Better yet, it's still up, un-changed.
http://www.members.tripod.com/~kasiwagi/main.htm
>>55520175
>that nip singing
Japan probably uses the same shit even now
>>55520175
Is that Megumi I hear at 4:16?
>>55532244
People still post on some groups even today.
This shot is xterm running console newsreader "tin":
http://www.tin.org/
>>55533879
Had to switch to smaller font to get entire message on one screen.
>>55533618
google turns up with nothing
sauce pls?
>There are people on this planet who are 18+ who never had to experience dial-up.
Fuck me
>>55534227
SCREESCUUUSUUCHHHHHHHHHREEREUUUUCHHHSCHREEEIIIICHREEECHICHCHCHCHHIII
>>55534072
I think it's from textfiles.com, and possibly from one of their CD images (cd.textfiles.com). I just don't remember exactly.
I tried to upload the original to /s/ "Vintage Ladies Pt 3" thread but upload failed and it gave me this error: "Image resolution is too small". I just don't get it, but whatever.
>You will never war dial on an acoustic coupler
>No really, you can't. Unless you build something to flash the hook.
>>55519850
>trying to download Earthworm Jim 2 from AOL Games
>parents want me to get off because it's late and i'm a little kid
>find out years later that the PC version is a piece of shit anyway
>Going into the Gateway computer store to play Rainbow Six Rogue Spear on their computers because my parents wouldn't replace our shitty Mac
In those days I would sell my soul for 5 minutes on a machine that was even capable of loading more than one web page an hour.
>RIP Gateway Computers
who /wifeysworld/ here?
>>55528913
>>55528844
I seem to recall HardOCP doing this. I think it became more of a running joke than a genuine warning.
And yes, HardOCP is something of a lost tribe that should remain out of contact with the rest of civilization.
>>55534776
I couldn't get any Amiga browsers to work on 4chan last time I tried
>>55530995
I came here around 2005 via links from YTMND. It was the most confused I've ever been in my life, I think.
>>55534961
They all work fine for me?
Aweb, IBrowse, Voyager... can't use CSS enabled ones because of memory limitations.
Probably your system/configuration is to blame.
>>55533879
Ah, memories. I used to use Tin on my Amiga. My dad is the only person I know who still uses newsgroups. I imagine them to be solely populated by 50-60 year olds who never made the jump to web forums and then social media.
>>55530873
>spelt lolicon lolikon
>had a guro board
I thought 4chan heyday was '05
>>55521602
kek, the real Borat
>>55529148
too fast anon
WHO THE FUCK IS CALLING IN THE MIDDLE OF MY GAME
>>55535000
I think the pages would load but I couldn't post or something.
>>55535698
4chan pass pleb
>modem noises
>hdd screeches
>copying those floppies
Nice time, but I fear there was nothing good except of nostalgia.
HDD noises are comfy though.
What's fun, we got faster Internet connection through 3G earlier than we got an ADSL modem.
>>55523638
>not just using EWW
>>55535815
>Using EWW
EWW!
>>55531800
Fuckin ayyyyy
>>55520077
Muh peasants
>>55523122
You do realise that this "typo" was on purpose do you?
>spent hours watching the after dark screensavers on my family's mac
>flying toasters and daredevil dan for days
>scared to run baddog because I thought the dog was actually eating your files and pissing on your stuff when he was running around
tfw basic dial 9.6
I went to a cyber they had T1
>holy shit that's sounds like the terminator
saved cool pictures and whole pages later on diskettes to see later
>I saved them in html only
>>55519866
are you moving in the outback?
i love how carriers made dial-up free now
>>55534227
>>55534249
>sneaking onto the computer late at night for some special me time
>keep a watchful eye out so the parents don't find out
>forget to turn the speakers off when dialling up
>porn sites with just links to single images
>fapping to the text descriptions because the pics took too long to load
>>55541045
>porn site which leads to a porn site which leads to a porn site which leads to...
>>55541067
>downloading shit from porn sites that knock off your connection and tried to dial an international phone line at incredible speed
>>55541315
>random shit starts downloading all by itself way faster than anything you've downloaded before
My dial up days lasted significantly longer than they should have.
My dad and I had a Mexican standoff of cheapness. I was still dropping from frozen throne games because someone would call.
Get on my level.
>>55541315
actually had this virus once. Nearly ripped the phone socket out the wall as I yanked the cable.
>>55541494
Took me a long time to coax my dad into ordering broadband. Finally got it in 2003.
He was paying for a dialup subscription and a second phone line, for a service that we could only use at evenings or weekends because he didn't want to pay the peak time charges... and could only use on one computer at a time.
You would think having a wireless 24/7 internet connection for less than what you're paying now sounds like a no brainer but... my dad doesn't like change. He was with the same ISP for over 20 years (dialup and ADSL) and finally changed last year when it became clear they were never going to provide a fibre service.
>>55541614
>Finally got it in 2003.
Nigga I didn't get broadband until 2007.
>>55526923
Haha. Seems like you had Telkom as your ISP. I remember those days. Fuck
>>55524688
It's broken.
>>55542187
what exactly is broken? Just tested and works fine.
>>55526282
>weeb
>fulfilling childhood spent outside with friends
oh yea I totally believe you!
>>55542232
I dunno, WinRAR just gives me 'This archive is either in unknown format or damaged'.
>>55542281
You might need to update WinRAR, it's a RAR5 archive
>>55519850
>Year 2042
>4chan is banned on feminet
>Browsing /g/ on the hidden gentoonet
>Stumble upon thread posted by faggot OP
>>IIT:
>>The 4g days
>0R 0I
>Move on
>Op found dead in basement a few days later
>>55542335
It worked
Thanks anon
>>55526405
When THE HABBEDING happens, I plan to put up a BBS over VHF and become the Pornography Emperor of New America.
>>55532244
>tfw i found out my ISP offered free usenet servers
>tfw i was maxing out my connection on all the shit I ever wanted
>tfw they stopped support 2-3 months after I started using it.
Fuck you Adelphia
>>55535751
You'd love powermac G5s.
When you press the power button, it buzzes, the lights dim, and the fans sound like a truck downshifting.
>>55542642
>Adelphia
Fuck you.
>>55542578
I almost want there to be some kind of network catastrophe so that we can go back to a fidonet-like community, except using radio transmitters due to the public telephone network being in ruins
>>55542729
There's always amateur radio.
>>55540806
What carriers?
>>55535089
It's almost solely populated by very weird spam posts.
>>55542729
Same, desu.
>>55531697
>100,000
>tfw it's so old they don't know quints
>>55519968
How to generate such an image? Is it a glitch?
