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Skeleton Ape posted:Pop quiz, hotshot those things died the instant CDR's came out and rightfully so. god drat what a poo poo piece of media. remember the click of death?
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Man, I remember when CD burners were first released, we had a giant external one and I thought it was so awesome to be able to make my own CDs. Even though it took like 20 minutes to download a song and about half an hour to burn a CD, so total time for one CD of downloaded songs was like 5 1/2 hours.
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OctoberBlues posted:Man, I remember when CD burners were first released, we had a giant external one and I thought it was so awesome to be able to make my own CDs. Even though it took like 20 minutes to download a song and about half an hour to burn a CD, so total time for one CD of downloaded songs was like 5 1/2 hours. yeah I remember that too. they were something dumb like 1-2x speed. some things that I can recall off the top of my head: QuakeWorld https://web.archive.org/web/19971210063857/http://www.quakeworld.net/ Kali, Quakespy that eventually evolved into Gamespy realplayer AOL/Prodigy Geocities/Tripod/Xoom/Angelfire irc/alt newsgroups/bbs winnuke/teardrop dialup noise is still burned into my brain the "ate my balls" theme icq - mirabilis guestbooks hit/visit counters polio king has a new favorite as of 00:20 on Dec 20, 2015 |
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Dec 20, 2015 00:12
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Used to play Duke on HEAT.net.
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Running a keep-alive app in the background while you ran a big download on dial-up so you didn't time out from inactivity and disconnect. Free ad-driven dial-up that was actually faster than AOL - Juno and NetZero were a couple.
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PromethiumX posted:Interstate 76 has the best soundtrack of any game I've ever played. I played that with my Microsoft Force Feedback Sidewinder joystick. PromethiumX posted:those things died the instant CDR's came out and rightfully so. god drat what a poo poo piece of media. remember the click of death? I bought mine in 1996 or 97 and it still works. There is some demand for them in the music community because some MIDI devices that were made in the 90s use them to backup and load data into memory. Art departments used them all the time because they were reusable and dependable. Burning a CD usually included a prayer and standing on one leg to make sure that he burning process completed without error.
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SoundBlaster 16 Dot-matrix printers Parallel ports External modems
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snocked posted:irc/alt newsgroups/bbs iRc wArRiOrZ BitchX trick op into oping, run script, OH NO TAKEOVER
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lol tim eckel http://www.arcadeathome.com/
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Smoking Gun posted:modems
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Having to remember to prefix dial-up numbers with *70 to prevent call waiting from kicking in and knocking you offline.
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Dec 20, 2015 01:22
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all the mame roms were 80 megs "can i get them in one zip file" "you loving idiot"
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http://www.shayesaintjohn.net/ rip   
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PromethiumX posted:those things died the instant CDR's came out and rightfully so. god drat what a poo poo piece of media. remember the click of death? Zip drives came out when CD-Rs had been already been around for years and they didn't die until flash media was cheap. Nobody carried documents and other files that were frequently edited to school or work on a CD-R because CD-Rs were slow and a pain in the rear end to use like that. Maldoror posted:all the mame roms were 80 megs The way to get a set of MAME ROMS in the dialup days used to be to send some guy a pile of CDs or DVDs through the mail and they would burn the whole set for you.
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The_Franz posted:Zip drives came out when CD-Rs had been already been around for years and they didn't die until flash media was cheap. Nobody carried documents and other files that were frequently edited to school or work on a CD-R because CD-Rs were slow and a pain in the rear end to use like that. Also people used Jazz drives because you could get a whole gigabyte on them
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just cranked my poo poo up to 188mhz, time to hit the turbo button and really get these graphics flowing  
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Having a porn folder that was 20 still images and a 1mb mpeg
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thathonkey posted:just cranked my poo poo up to 188mhz, time to hit the turbo button and really get these graphics flowing when this sucker hits 188mhz, you're gonna see some serious poo poo. weren't some turbo buttons really a slowdown switch wired in reverse? early emulation (and its "community") was definitely a retro computing thing by now, remember when neogeo emulators were a good reason to buy more RAM? and the loving games were still coming out, so some of the neo emulators would be intentionally crippled not to play them. And the ROM sites back then, downloading lovely copies of misnamed/bad dumps off of someone's geocities page. I definitely associate ZSNES, nesticle and genecyst with late 90s computing edit: if you do not own these games you must delete the roms after 24 hours!!
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Dec 20, 2015 02:16
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This old gem. Also, I always wondered who the kid and family was in the Jeff k pics, on ICQ Lowtax just said it was some dumb kid.
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had a voodoo2 it owned crazy to think that the standard of what fps a game should be able to run at on the pc was higher 20 years ago than it is right now on the xbone
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 WinVN on 3.1, Agent on 95. drat nzbs killed usenet. http://www.wired.com/1997/04/ff-warez/ lol, alt.binaries.pictures.leek I never got on the ipl... I had a PGP key and everything!
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The Goatfather posted:the first game i played with 3d acceleration was interstate 76
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Kharnifex posted:This old gem.
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extra stout posted:had a voodoo2 it owned I remember playing HL with this, then going to the 5500 and getting 110 FPS. RIP 3DFX
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Dec 20, 2015 02:38
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Kharnifex posted:This old gem. http://web.archive.org/web/20000301081405/http://www.fufme.com/
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CNN still has remnants of really old pages on their site. Check this out: http://edition.cnn.com/2001/US/09/11/chronology.attack/ Look at how low-res photos were back then. It's amazing that this was in the same millennium. I don't remember images being that tiny in 1995. It probably helped that my monitor was 640x480 though.
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Dec 20, 2015 02:49
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Skeleton Ape posted:Smoking Gun posted: LOL.... I still use a modem everyday. Where I live, it's the only way to get internet. Xfinity ftmfl
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Bonzo posted:I played that with my Microsoft Force Feedback Sidewinder joystick.
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PromethiumX posted:those things died the instant CDR's came out and rightfully so. god drat what a poo poo piece of media. remember the click of death? I remember hearing a lot about that but mine was fine for as long as I had it. CD-Rs were cool and everything but like that other guy said, burning was really slow and unreliable. Also the discs were single-use and pretty expensive at first. ZIP drives hung around for a long time in graphic design and stuff. Only USB MSDs completely stomped them out.
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Dec 20, 2015 03:13
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I do remember being one of the only people in my school with a CD-R drive though, I did make a little money off kids wanting to copy things 
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Dirk Squarejaw posted:LOL.... I still use a modem everyday. Where I live, it's the only way to get internet. Xfinity ftmfl Is there a way to get internet NOT using a cable modem that I'm noy aware of? I'm drunk right now and having problems picturing it
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Dec 20, 2015 03:26
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poo poo talker v1.2 by Jaundice
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Well, ok. Dialup modems. Also yes, I live in the sticks and have a BLAZING FAST line-of-sight wireless setup. Just a dish-type antenna pointed at a mountain and a PoE power injector in the house. 
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Skeleton Ape posted:Well, ok. Dialup modems. Also yes, I live in the sticks and have a BLAZING FAST line-of-sight wireless setup. Just a dish-type antenna pointed at a mountain and a PoE power injector in the house. I did tech support for an ISP that used those. I wouldn't have described our service as "BLAZING FAST."
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Haha, no it's not. It's pretty drat good for what it is though, when I moved here I was pretty much convinced I'd have no choice other than satellite with data caps. I get a rock solid 8 Mb/s which is good enough for HD Netflix, I'm happy.
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