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Whatever that dialup isp was that gave you internet in exchange for you having banner ads on your desktop from them, which people very quickly learned to work around. also WebTV
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netzero?
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# ? Jan 28, 2021 03:26 |
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i had a roommate in college that played daoc 12-16 hours a day. he still went to work, and eventually graduated so i guess it all worked out
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# ? Jan 28, 2021 03:27 |
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President Beep posted:netzero? that was one of them, maybe the biggest one? the trick i found was to ctrl-alt-del right as it connected and stop the process and enjoy my 6.3 kb/sec connection and some tfc
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# ? Jan 28, 2021 06:06 |
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Achmed Jones posted:i had a roommate in college that played daoc 12-16 hours a day. he still went to work, and eventually graduated so i guess it all worked out how is that physically possible?
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# ? Jan 28, 2021 11:37 |
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Carthag Tuek posted:how is that physically possible? ajan rakenne on muuttunut
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# ? Jan 28, 2021 11:54 |
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3D Megadoodoo posted:ajan rakenne on muuttunut muttnutted but she still suckin
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# ? Jan 28, 2021 15:27 |
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:muttnutted but she still suckin
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# ? Jan 28, 2021 16:10 |
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Volmarias posted:Whatever that dialup isp was that gave you internet in exchange for you having banner ads on your desktop from them, which people very quickly learned to work around. I had one of these called "funcow". one day the internet just stopped working and like two weeks later we figured out that it was because it had gone out of business without alerting us
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# ? Jan 28, 2021 17:25 |
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I used something called freewwweb for a while
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Truman Peyote posted:I had one of these called "funcow". one day the internet just stopped working and like two weeks later we figured out that it was because it had gone out of business without alerting us funcow popped
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# ? Jan 28, 2021 18:21 |
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wasn't there a Walmart free dialup thing? something with a blue lightbulb? used that in the US in '00
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# ? Jan 28, 2021 18:31 |
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yeah bluelight. it sucked/s
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# ? Jan 28, 2021 18:32 |
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Jonny 290 posted:yeah bluelight. it sucked/s that brand dilution must be what killed k-mart
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# ? Jan 28, 2021 20:00 |
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juicero
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# ? Jan 31, 2021 07:33 |
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blackberry playbook
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# ? Jan 31, 2021 09:14 |
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that reminds me I have an HP WebOS tablet somewhere
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# ? Jan 31, 2021 09:56 |
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Volmarias posted:Whatever that dialup isp was that gave you internet in exchange for you having banner ads on your desktop from them, which people very quickly learned to work around. god I remember these. There was one that also had some referral/pyramid mechanic built into it as well, but it was so slow I just gave up in the end. swapping though free isp sample discs to min max the free 100 hours and still getting in trouble for running up a phone bill playing team fortress classic
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# ? Jan 31, 2021 11:17 |
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eschaton posted:that reminds me I have an HP WebOS tablet somewhere rotor alt detected
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# ? Jan 31, 2021 15:32 |
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No games ever actually used Blast Processing.
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# ? Jan 31, 2021 16:50 |
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:rotor alt detected impossible as if rotor doesn't know where his is
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# ? Jan 31, 2021 17:38 |
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Typing Rhino Frittata instead of Reno, Nevada
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# ? Jan 31, 2021 17:45 |
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Jonny 290 posted:impossible
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# ? Jan 31, 2021 18:47 |
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Volmarias posted:Typing Rhino Frittata instead of Reno, Nevada raccoon natural speed king. in fact, all early speech recognition, where you had to train yourself on the quirks of the software rather than the software adjusting to you. I’m endlessly annoyed by Siri and Alexa and whatnot for many reasons, but their ability to understand me is not one of them
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# ? Jan 31, 2021 20:01 |
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:raccoon natural speed king.
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# ? Jan 31, 2021 20:17 |
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there is that yeah, but even in the raccoon natural speed king days, when you knew the right command you still had to say it like 5 times before it got it
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# ? Jan 31, 2021 20:21 |
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:swapping though free isp sample discs to min max the free 100 hours and still getting in trouble for running up a phone bill playing team fortress classic resubmitting the aol cd request form like 25 times and then having the mailman knock the door and ask my mom about it
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# ? Jan 31, 2021 21:59 |
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Progressive JPEG posted:resubmitting the aol cd request form like 25 times and then having the mailman knock the door and ask my mom about it
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# ? Jan 31, 2021 22:13 |
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"uh yeah, kid. Here about the AOLs again. Here's five bucks - go see a movie for a couple hours"
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# ? Jan 31, 2021 22:41 |
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Best Bi Geek Squid posted:"uh yeah, kid. Here about the AOLs again. Here's five hours of internet - go look at the space jam website or something"
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# ? Feb 1, 2021 17:04 |
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:juicero https://twitter.com/ivankatrump/status/715648874346520576?lang=en
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# ? Feb 2, 2021 05:26 |
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Volmarias posted:Whatever that dialup isp was that gave you internet in exchange for you having banner ads on your desktop from them, which people very quickly learned to work around. Agile Vector posted:that was one of them, maybe the biggest one? the trick i found was to ctrl-alt-del right as it connected and stop the process and enjoy my 6.3 kb/sec connection and some tfc this was definitely Tritium.
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# ? Feb 2, 2021 05:27 |
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lmao. of course.
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# ? Feb 2, 2021 05:28 |
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hashtag healthy yall
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# ? Feb 2, 2021 06:45 |
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lol alexa's parsing of speech is skill developers having to implement a giant list of every possible permutation of a sentence
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# ? Feb 2, 2021 09:33 |
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i used to be able to tell alexa "turn on the living room" and the living room lights would turn on. then i got another echo dot, and put it in the living room, so i named it 'living room' and now when I say "alexa turn on the living room" it says "livingroom doesn't support that". now i have to say "alexa dim the living room lights to 100 percent" for it to work
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# ? Feb 2, 2021 15:07 |
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:i used to be able to tell alexa "turn on the living room" and the living room lights would turn on. then i got another echo dot, and put it in the living room, so i named it 'living room' and now when I say "alexa turn on the living room" it says "livingroom doesn't support that". now i have to say "alexa dim the living room lights to 100 percent" for it to work The russians used a lightswitch
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# ? Feb 2, 2021 15:14 |
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:The russians used a lightswitch Well actually, light switches are outdated and can cause fires, furthermore Chumbawumba4ever97 didn't spend a fortune building Alexa themselves but were actually approached by an ad offering it for $99.95, and
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# ? Feb 2, 2021 15:45 |
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children are even more efficient
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:The russians used a lightswitch The Americans used a clapper, but I suppose a person who wants to use Google for turning the lights on or off has no use of their hands.
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