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Skeleton Ape posted: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. Yeah, the service is definitely better than satellite. Then again, smoke signals would be competitive with satellite. Our service wasn't bad, but it really was best-suited for places that couldn't get anything else. While I worked there I kept my DSL at home because it was faster and more reliable than our own service.
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Literal stacks of HDDs for all the stuff from torrents.
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Yeah I literally have no other choice. DSL would be great, people a couple miles away from me are getting 12 Mb for half of what I'm paying.
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Skeleton Ape posted: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. The first generation CD-Rs were about $2.50 for a single blank, and the burn would fail about 60% of the time. The other guy talking about dancing on one leg as a tribute to the optical media gods for a successful burn was accurate.
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# ? Dec 20, 2015 05:55 |
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Had a 300 baud modem hooked up to our Commodore 64 to dial up local BBS servers. Had one of these bad boys, too: And a third-party fan which sat on top of it to keep it from literally melting down.
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# ? Dec 20, 2015 06:01 |
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1.3 fo life
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Had a 300 baud modem hooked up to our Commodore 64 to dial up local BBS servers. Had one of these bad boys, too: that pic doesn't do it justice, those things were like 18" front to back and weighed 15 pounds did you have a disk-nothcher so you could use both sides of the disk? good times Hot Cosby has a new favorite as of 06:14 on Dec 20, 2015 |
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Hot Cosby posted:that pic doesn't do it justice, those things were like 18" front to back and weighed 15 pounds That, and the interior mechanics were such a Rube Goldberg affair that we actually had a program that would make it play music. The motors and heads would vibrate to actually sound like a fuzzy midi speaker.
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# ? Dec 20, 2015 06:13 |
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This thread reminded me of my old favourite back door (heh!) porn site TheHun.net. It was literally just a yellow page with links to short porn clips and collections of photo's but the site promised smut without any annoying pop-ups so it was cool by me.
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the function keys
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Nude Bog Lurker posted:1.3 fo life I got the kickstart upgrade with my harddisk controller&harddisk. I think according for inflation and currency change it was about 600 bucks maybe for those. Man, this poo poo was expensive. Especially considering it was obsolete 2 years later.
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*BOIINGG* https://youtu.be/Sd9nOtX-CJg
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Gaz2k21 posted:This thread reminded me of my old favourite back door (heh!) porn site TheHun.net. you had the Hun and I think the other was Pornzilla
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Police Automaton posted:I got the kickstart upgrade with my harddisk controller&harddisk. I think according for inflation and currency change it was about 600 bucks maybe for those. Man, this poo poo was expensive. Especially considering it was obsolete 2 years later. my parents got the A500+ literally a day before commodore announced the A600 my poo poo friend gave me grief about it until he realised that his A600 was a trash computer for babbies, loving rekt
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Nude Bog Lurker posted:my parents got the A500+ literally a day before commodore announced the A600 I got the A2000 '87 because the salesman was *very* insistent of it being more future-proof because of the expansion slots. The time the A500+/A600 were around, that ship has already sunk for Commodore. I remember getting the A1200 years later, going "Oh." and exchanging it for a 486.
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my original windows 95 cd. still not too scratched
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The Goatfather posted:
I waited in a line at Computer City at midnight for that. I'm pretty sure I still have it, mine is the blue upgrade CD though (not at home or I'd check.) I also picked this up: Wifi Toilet has a new favorite as of 02:55 on Dec 21, 2015 |
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The Goatfather posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kemivUKb4f4
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what was that NES emulator that was also all about poop for some reason? nesticle or something? MUDs were fun and I think a few are still around for some horrible reason.
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screenshot where I owned Thresh
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Cult of the Dead Cow's Back Orifice r00t
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http://www.heavensgate.com/
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http://www.ilovebacon.com/ is still active. Along with Zip drives, there was SuperDisk which could read 120MB discs or regular 3.5" floppies.
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Does Shareware still exist like it used to where you were drat well expected to pay if you used it beyond the trial period, or is it just mostly paid versions and "free, this is totally free, but PLEASE donate via Paypal"?Bagarthach posted:I waited in a line at Computer City at midnight for that. I'm pretty sure I still have it, mine is the blue upgrade CD though (not at home or I'd check.) I also picked this up: Did the plus disc have video files of Buddy Holly by Weezer and the Rob Roy trailer on it? I seem to remember some MS extras disk I had for W95 that included those.
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# ? Dec 21, 2015 04:40 |
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Whitehouse.com introduced many old rear end middle school librarians to Internet porn
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Bagarthach posted:
I still use Forte Agent. The NZB indexers don't grab everything and they always get shut down. Plus if you are looking for older stuff or concert bootlegs it's priceless.
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karma_coma posted:what was that NES emulator that was also all about poop for some reason? nesticle or something? Nesticle. THANKS SHITMAN
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JediTalentAgent posted:Did the plus disc have video files of Buddy Holly by Weezer and the Rob Roy trailer on it? I seem to remember some MS extras disk I had for W95 that included those. The Buddy Holly film clip came with every copy of Windows 95 in the "Fun Stuff" folder, iirc.
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Homer J. Fong posted:Whitehouse.com introduced many old rear end middle school librarians to Internet porn Bill Clinton's Black Project
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Nooner posted:jacking off to the ladies in their underware in the SEARS catalog It was a Land's End catalogue for me. And yes, before you ask I am white and from the Midwest.
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# ? Dec 21, 2015 06:00 |
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Also Buddy Icons Hotline Client Escape Velocity
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Also: EDIT: Excel 97 space simulator!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6nY0QkG9nQ Unlike the rest of the Office Easter Eggs, this one actually worked for me defaultluser has a new favorite as of 06:34 on Dec 21, 2015 |
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JediTalentAgent posted:Does Shareware still exist like it used to where you were drat well expected to pay if you used it beyond the trial period, or is it just mostly paid versions and "free, this is totally free, but PLEASE donate via Paypal"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAb3uVpf_v0
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Can people be computer relics?
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# ? Dec 21, 2015 06:35 |
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I can't believe no one hasn't mentioned AOHell. Also, does anyone remember Cheetachat?
B.H. Facials has a new favorite as of 06:38 on Dec 21, 2015 |
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Can people be computer relics? Is that the guy who keeps showing off his donger?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEOCElJ8-44
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