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Internet and Nostalgia (pg. 4)
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Akridrot
Are the people with 3 digit ICQ numbers out there? Or less? :wtf: |
As far as I remember, I tested it back in the time, and the lowest number I got was 1001.
| quote: | Originally posted by jdat
Thankfully my e-p3n0r has grown now!
And I rebooted the thing under 24 hours ago. :eek: |
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I barely get a fifth of that :( What's your connection?
(although I've forwarded the ports properly today for the first time :D)
ps.: utorrent ftmfw :D |
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| beats and beeps |
| I got the internet 1 week before i registered on this website, with this account. |
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| Subey |
| I remember I was in Res during my first year of university and this nice east indian guy (who loved the grateful dead) told me to take ANY computer course just so I could get internet access. |
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| igottaknow |
remember webcrawler? i always liked their logo
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| DigitalPhoenix |
| quote: | Originally posted by fbgdavidson
I can also remember those 5.5" floppy discs. Had some on my Dad's old 286! Can recall him not buying an Intel Pentium laptop because apparently the early Pentium laptops ate up the battery too fast :wtf:
Ah the Commodore 64....my grandfather had one of those, with the Flight Simulator game and Harrier Attack ran off cassette tapes :stongue: I loved those games as a 5/6yr old in the late 80s! |
I was 9 or 10 when all this went on...and colors for programming or text were either green...or orange.. :D |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigitalPhoenix
Commodore 64 |
I had completely skipped all mentions to C64 in this thread!
That was my 2nd computer (the first being a XT :p), and I loved it! |
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| Psy-T |
traxinspace & computercontrolled (or it's older domain which i can't remember atm)
was anyone else a member on either of those? |
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| Psy-T |
| oh and hyperreal of course! |
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| fbgdavidson |
What about Amiga Workbench :stongue:
Also read a hilarious thread about BBSs on another board I use, shame I can't post the link as you need to be a registered user and have 180 posts to read the forum... |
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| Tranc3 |
I started back in 1992 (think it was 92, maybe 93), I was just a kid (1992...8 years old) and used one of those free internet access for 10 hours floppies they sent in the mail. Can't remember if it was Compuserve or AOL. The connection was through a computer at my dad's office. Sometimes he would take me with him, and I would go wander through the other offices in the building. I remember I got onto a computer, loaded the software, erased the disk, and then downloaded as many games as I could onto the floppy so I could play them at home. Which reminds me of the original Wing Commander, that game is quite possibly the most awesome game I have played, ever. First comp was a 386sx, 20 meg hard drive.
| quote: | Originally posted by jdat
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Lucky bastard.
My connection gets 40KB/sec. My neighboor's unsecured wireless network, however, nets me internet access in the range of 3900 KB/sec, although typically it's about 400KB/sec. It's hard finding people with upload speeds in the thousands of kilobytes per second, or in the case of BT, several people whose combined upload speeds are thousands of kilobytes per second. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Psy-T
oh and hyperreal of course! |
Hey, I remember that one! |
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| Tranc3 |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigitalPhoenix
I was 9 or 10 when all this went on...and colors for programming or text were either green...or orange.. :D |
I remember in 3rd grade I programmed my first computer, I think it was an Apple IIc. One of my friends had a book on programming graphics through BASIC, even animations. It was basically typing into the computer "I want this block on the screen to be this color, and to move in this direction this far after this much time has passed since the beginning of the program." |
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