So how many of you freaked out and thought the police were coming when you first saw this?
>>3254940
FUCK the Police.
I honestly don't remember, shit would crash all the time back in the day.
>>3254940
>How many of you were retarded as children?
OR
>I'm an underage trying to fit in
I didn't, but I do remember asking my dad why it was called an illegal operation.
>>3255021
This really. I grew up with DOS, I was long since used to seeing error messages full of information that I didn't understand at all.
Nobody. Except you.
Sup anon.
Would you like to tell us what you did, son? Did you sass your mother? Did you do your homework?
We all knew nothing happens as long as you delete your roms after 24h.
If I was looking at porn online when I was like 11 and would hear sirens outside I would shut it down immediately
>>3254940
Nope. Not even my kids who were using windows in 98 did. Probably because I never dropped them on their heads.
Whenever my win98 computer would blue screen I would freak out and call my dad cause I thought someone was hacking my computer
>>3255021
this desu senpai, first times I saw it I tried asking around if anyone understood what that shit meant, later I just didn't give a fuck, and I used to format the hdd and install early windows editions at least twice a year.
We were so foolish in the before times.
>>3254940
I was more worried my Dad would find out I did something to the computer.
Well, I did at first ○_•
>>3256825
So was I
>>3256824
I wonder if you can get away with that. You didn't break the seal, after all and laws are all about splitting hairs.
>>3254946
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51t1OsPSdBc
I remember on AOL once I had just learned about Area 51 and was looking it up and my computer froze. I was scared shitless that the government was onto me and trying to prevent me from accessing their secrets.
>>3256980
Eula's don't mean shit in most countries anyways.
>>3257092
I had a similar experience. Remember when you were connected to dial up and someone would call and kick you offline? That really sucked
>>3254940
Not me because I wasn't a mentally challenged kid.
>>3257110
That could only happen if you had call waiting enabled. If you disabled it the caller would get a engaged signal and you'd keep jettin' at the glorious 28kbs that you'd always get on your56k modem.
>>3257123
I remember I started out using 28.8k at first. 56k's were a minor godsend in comparison
>>3254940
You know how I know you are underage shit? That's a Windows 98 error screen and by 98, only rich assholes had an Internet connection, yet broadband.
>>3257130
Must have been nice having the sort of telephone infrastructure that meant a 56k modem could actually establish 56k connection.
>>3257148
That would be a digital line at your ISPs end. Everyone who's ISP wasn't some kid in his moms basement had it.
>>3257132
Why so hostile anon?
>>3257187
M8 it doesn't matter what's on the ISP's end when your signal goes thru 100-year old copper wire intended for telegraph machines, not even telephones. Welcome to Australia.Got 100mpbs fibre now though.
No, but one time my computer froze when I was looking at porn and my older brother came in the room and I told him a hacker in a chatroom said they were going to install porn viruses into our computer and that's why it was on the porn page.
I started crying and everything because I got caught because I thought he would tell my mom.
>>3257224
>doesn't matter
Yes it does. Maybe you're getting confused with broadband or maybe your ISP just had a bunch of modems in their moms basement. There's not a special isotope of copper that only works for telegraphs m8.
Yes. And when Microsoft "Genuine Advantage" stuff started popping up, I thought they were hacking my PC, probably because I was getting too good at Runescape and they wanted the items, or because I managed to exploit a glitch in Neopets, or because I had been watching anti-government/anti-corporation stuff on Newgrounds, or posting on sucks500
>>3257130
Shit I think my first PC from Costco only had 14.4 was it? I remember upgrading to 28.8 and being amazed as hell at the lightning fast speed.
legit thought the computer was going to explode
>>3257365
My point was that the lines were so bad where I lived that connections would be made at speeds much lower than what my ISP at least claimed they provided. Maybe they (and every other ISP I tried) did cheap out as you suggested but I'm more inclined to blame the bad lines that have had a bad rep forever.
