Wonder if you will have a form of synesthesia reading this https://www.theatlantic.com/technol...eaning-of-that-ol-dial-up-modem-sound/257816/The modem sound is forever imprinted in my brain.
Wonder if you will have a form of synesthesia reading this https://www.theatlantic.com/technol...eaning-of-that-ol-dial-up-modem-sound/257816/The modem sound is forever imprinted in my brain.
your telling me this now?!!There's actually a command you could use to silence that horrific (yet nostalgic to some) screech of a dial-up modem.
It would still make the initial dialing sound, but it would be silent after that.
someone tries to call your house.......CLICK!Is everyone off the phone? I want to get online!”
Yeah i remember. I think it was 1993-1994 when we first had internet at our house and i was only allowed to use it 30 minutes a day because it was do damn expensive back then. Usually just used it for Cheatcc to get some cheats for my games. Ha the good old days
it was usually a MB limit per month. when they bought unlimited MB plans out...and it BLEW OUR MINDS!!Were they charging by the minute? Or per MB used?
Ofcourse by mb used. But i wasn't allowed to download back then. And being on a website itself meant downloading data by itself hence why the 30 min limit my parents had put on it back thenWere they charging by the minute? Or per MB used?
your telling me this now?!!
it was usually a MB limit per month. when they bought unlimited MB plans out...and it BLEW OUR MINDS!!
Ofcourse by mb used. But i wasn't allowed to download back then. And being on a website itself meant downloading data by itself hence why the 30 min limit my parents had put on it back then
It would still make the initial dialing sound, but it would be silent after that.
"get off the internet! I'm expecting a phone call!"
i was never ever able to connect to the full 56k i don't think anyone was
I remember, and i wanted to kill him,but now......does anyone remember this? your playing someone online all of a sudden everything freezes than your modem disconnects. and than you realize...that cheating son of a bitch win nuked me!
Lucky, I only got to use it 10 min every now and then. Whereas my mom used it for hours at a time to write emails.Yeah i remember. I think it was 1993-1994 when we first had internet at our house and i was only allowed to use it 30 minutes a day because it was do damn expensive back then. Usually just used it for Cheatcc to get some cheats for my games. Ha the good old days
I work in IT and i had a customer call in because their Eudora would not work with our email server. This was a few months ago LOL.yep i remember them days. my first internet caple computer was a packard bell pentium 75. rocked a 14.4 modem. still have that pc and it still works. napster is still installed on it.
Also i still have all my e-mails i have ever received from my main isp mail account. first one was a bill from the isp i had in 1996. I used an email client called eudora for my mail and i used it up until the email encryption was not supported so i moved all those mails to thunderbird. thunderbird had an import feature that supported eudora lol.
Can't really make sense of the trial thing, can you elaborate?I remember having to get a bunch of AOL discs just for the free trials. Then i later found a way to get free internet using other ISP providers by using the free trial to get an IP, create a dial up connection with the IP and number used in the dialer the ISP provided. I was able to get free dial up for years, but the trick wouldnt work with AOL.
I work in IT and i had a customer call in because their Eudora would not work with our email server. This was a few months ago LOL.
Back when dial up was a thing ISP's would offer free trials of so many hours or days. Those ISP's were AOL, Earthlink, Netzero, and a few others. You would often get CDs in the mail or pick one up where the free magazines were in shops. The CDs contained the ISP's software which was a dialer that would provide dial up internet access.Can't really make sense of the trial thing, can you elaborate?
And why didn't that work with AOL?Back when dial up was a thing ISP's would offer free trials of so many hours or days. Those ISP's were AOL, Earthlink, Netzero, and a few others. You would often get CDs in the mail or pick one up where the free magazines were in shops. The CDs contained the ISP's software which was a dialer that would provide dial up internet access.