Kids these days will never know the struggle

[Sakeenah]

I remember it well. Kids today don't know what slow internet is. And that horrible screeching sound when connecting.

Yes the sound was horrible
I always say to my kids " when I was your age the internet went skaweeerureeweert"

 

[Revoltingest]

Dial up modems?
Pbbbttttt!
That's so modern.
I remember (in the 60s)....

 

[David1967]

Yes the sound was horrible
I always say to my kids " when I was your age the internet went skaweeerureeweert"

Sounded like some prehistoric predatory bird about to attack.

 

[The Kilted Heathen]

This thread: (@2:52)

 

[Rival]

 

[Sakeenah]

when this has an actual ring of truth to it..

 

[Flame]

I still remember covering our old computer with multiple blankets trying to hide the sound of it when I was trying to play Quake in the middle of the night.

 

[David1967]

Dial up modems?
Pbbbttttt!
That's so modern.
I remember (in the 60s)....

What is that?

 

[Revoltingest]

What is that?

As I recall (twas long long ago), it was called a "teletype".
We used it for access to a mainframe computer somewhere.
We could write & run programs. That's it.

 

[YmirGF]

Never mind that, I remember the sound when you used to load computer games off cassettes (and computers had 32KB of RAM)

Yep. Remember when a "big" game took about 10-15 minutes to simply load? Arrrgghhhh.

 

[YmirGF]

You had it easy. My first job used 8-inch disks. My first computer used cassettes, then 5 1/4" disks.

My first used a tape casette. Disks came the following year. Single-side, doube-density. I remember cutting them and poking another hole to use them as double-sided. Worked like a charm. Also remember drilling holes in 3-1/2 " floppies to make them 1.44MB. Ahhhh, the old days... Now I look at a USB stick and thing, "Oh crap, it only has 64GB!"

 

[bobhikes]

I remember once my step father was downloading this film called 'Pitch Black' on dial-up, so we all had no internet for like days. Then when it finally downloaded it was just two hours of a pitch black screen

My first modem was a 300 bit modem. For software updates I would have to call California at night and leave the connection open till morning. I had to pay 9.95 a month for the connection and usually had a $300 plus dollar phone bill.

 

[Revoltingest]

Yep. Remember when a "big" game took about 10-15 minutes to simply load? Arrrgghhhh.

Imagine loading a game on a.....

 

[YmirGF]

Imagine loading a game on a.....

They had games for slide-rules? That's about as geeky as it gets.

 

[YmirGF]

My first modem was a 300 bit modem. For software updates I would have to call California at night and leave the connection open till morning. I had to pay 9.95 a month for the connection and usually had a $300 plus dollar phone bill.

Yep. Ditto on the 300 Baud puppy. My god, I think I can pee faster than that.

 

[bobhikes]

Imagine loading a game on a.....

Mine were more like this. It took 100 of them for a good program.

 

[sun rise]

Imagine loading a game on a.....

P&E deci log-log?

All the kids on this thread who don't know what 110 baud was really like and how blazing fast 300 baud acoustic couplers were

 

[sun rise]

Mine were more like this. It took 100 of them for a good program.

And a dropped tray of punched cards cause for bashing one's head against the wall.

 

[Augustus]

Imagine loading a game on a.....

Ooh, are you proper old skool with the punch-hole cards?

Did your computer look like this?

 

[Revoltingest]

They had games for slide-rules? That's about as geeky as it gets.

No games that I know of.
They weren't even useful for faux sword play.