Remember Dial-up?

[Stewart]

No, she has taste buds.

[TAKTAK]

No, she has taste buds.

oh yeah, them gubbins

[Stewart]

New fangeld jiggery pokery, yes.

[acrobat]

1p per min connections.... i ran up a £220 phonebill

I know, bloody nightmare I actually had even bigger than that because I started playing Everquest which in hindsight, was an incredibly stupid idea.

p.s. My pings were never that bad in CS and other shooters. I think I usually had about 250, and about 150 on a good day, and about 350 on a bad day. All of which were playable (just about). I think that was on Pipex or something, and then I went to BT which wasn't too bad as well. But some isp's weren't as good.

[tiggerai]

No, she has taste buds.

No. Standards, darling.


(and i do love acrobats avatar... makes me chortle each time i see it)

[Main]

p.s. My pings were never that bad in CS and other shooters. I think I usually had about 250, and about 150 on a good day, and about 350 on a bad day. All of which were playable (just about). I think that was on Pipex or something, and then I went to BT which wasn't too bad as well. But some isp's weren't as good.

I had the same, I remember going through all sorts of dial-up numbers to find ones that would perform ever so slightly better, and trying a couple of cheap modems too. Servers that I could get consistently good connections to were like gold...

[acrobat]

I had the same, I remember going through all sorts of dial-up numbers to find ones that would perform ever so slightly better, and trying a couple of cheap modems too. Servers that I could get consistently good connections to were like gold...

Yeah same here I think I had a really good run with my 56k days compared to most people. I did get royally spanked by the huge bills though :/

I was SO happy when telewest came along with a fixed rate dial up service. It wasn't the best speed wise but being able to leave it connected 24/7 felt like I won the lotto

[Blackmage]

1p/minute internet sounded cheap not when you got the bill at the end month

[Lee H]

I remember BBS boards, then moving to compuserv -urk and then AOL ... I know, I know.

Remember the special 0844 numbers you dialed at night and you'd ALWAYS get an engaged tone for ages as every bugger else was in the queue to get onto the world wide web.

I too ouch racked up a 300 quid phone bill, but it was split with myself and my brother so it wasn't too bad

[mycarsavw]

Anyone remember the noise on dial-up? Strangely, I miss it.

Send a fax

I'm trying to forget it thanks, althoguh I'm surprised by the number of people at work who still ask for dial up modems in modern PC's, they get very irate when they find out that new PC's and laptops don't come supplied with dial up modems anymore.

I use a dial up modem on a daily basis at work. Our facility to send and receive CHAPS, BACS and IATs relies on a dial up modem, without it, we'd be stumped.

[Parm]

Remember the dial-up noise? Of course! My girlfriend was still using it just a few months ago.

Still, I've now rectified the error of her ways. She's now using Orange broadband. Wait, maybe that's worse...

[DR]

I remember dialup - everyone talked about those US Robotic things.... the real men had these:



Smark Music Production: Equipment

Golly it was a ace piece of kit....

[Mike Fishcake]

If you miss the dial-up sound so much, I'm sure there will be an MP3 file of it somewhere so you can set it as your computer start-up sound

(all we need now is for Peter Kay or some other sub-celebrity to 'sing' the dial-up noise and we've got ourselves a TV programme!)

[G4Z]

Remember records? Remember VHS? Remember religious people? Remember black and white TV? Remember being scared of brown people? Remember cords? Remember chopper bikes? Remember beans with little sausages in them? Remember Rainbow? Remember TV ending at 12? Remember not having 1471 on your phone? Remember not having a phone? Remember your mobile phone being bigger than you? Remember having a cord connecting your remote control to the TV? Remember not having a remote control? Remember having to watch a TV prog when it was on? Remember Ascot trainers? Remember making a cup of tea in a kettle on the gas hob? Remember not being able to watch live football? Remember when pubs used to shut? Remeber phones with a dial on the front? Remember 8bit video game consoles? Remember paying for internet use by the second? Remember the country being shut on a weekend?

Moral of the story - the past was ****. Enjoy the present.

Good point well made I feel, however he is wrong about chopper bikes as they were ace.

[tiggerai]

I remember BBS boards, then moving to compuserv -urk and then AOL ... I know, I know.

Remember the special 0844 numbers you dialed at night and you'd ALWAYS get an engaged tone for ages as every bugger else was in the queue to get onto the world wide web.

I too ouch racked up a 300 quid phone bill, but it was split with myself and my brother so it wasn't too bad

Oh and the point at around 10pm when the net slowed down because all the blimmin americans came home from work and did the same thing!

[pauldarkside]

Ah the good old days, BBS, high prices, slow speeds, then eventually trying to fit that 20MB download into your one hour connection 'cause it'd get reset, having to ask friends to help download something that was too big to do on your own and you needed it before that magazine with coverdisc came out, spending nights on IRC, having to leave the computer on all night (extremely rare for me to do that these days). Miss it? Like hell I do. Noise? Nah, always used "M0" to kill it.

When I got my 512/256 installation (one of the first in my area and an engineer install was the only option) it was like being reborn - I'd never seen download progress bars move so quickly outside of a college connection. I still remember chuckling when, for example, the antivirus software fetched updates and waiting for the day when websites had video and stuff that'd demand that sort of connection - that took a while too.