56k.rip - The full 1996 dial-up experience

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• jade52@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  MUH CHILDHOOD

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• nek0d3r@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I spent WAY too much time playing the minesweeper lol

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• j_elgato@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yes, certainly these emotions I’m now feeling are articulate, proportionate, and completely manageable…

  God, I want a Zima for some reason.

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  • rabidhamster@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Best I can do is a Josta.

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Only rich people had 56k in 96

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  • rozodru@piefed.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    my parents bought me a 56K modem in 97 for christmas. it was my ONLY christmas present that year.

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    • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Damn man. You were cool. What happened that now you’re one of us here on Lemmy?

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  • darreninthenet@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This doesn’t feel right, we had our first ADSL line in the uk in 1998 and we were in a student flat share!

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    • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      DSL requires a short distance to the phone switch, and splitting one faster line would be cheaper than four phone lines.

      DSL didn’t really come to a lot of the US because things are so spread out here.

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  • adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    iirc the first usr x2 and k56flex modems weren’t out til 1997

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    • GenosseFlosse@feddit.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Then you discovered that the other side was still running on a 28k modem, and you never really got 56k…

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• daychilde@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The modem is simulating a relatively late protocol. I started at 1200 baud with BBSes in 1987. I have used 300 baud, which takes a while to give you a screen of text. I used to be able to give you the general actual connection speed - because it depended on the quality of the line as to what you actually got. heh.

  A pretty nice site. Not 100% accurate, but not bad. Feels more like around 1994 than 1996 to me.

  Also a bummer that they didn’t actually make the windows moveable, but that’s a quibble and a lot of work. I also tried to see if I could get commandline, but i"m very unsurprised they didn’t - that would hve been a lot more work :)

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  • MaskedNybbles@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Many of the windows are moveable—just not all.

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• inari@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That cometlink website somehow feels too well-done for 1996

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  • adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    the ‘computer’ booted up way too fast, too.

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    • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not enough hard drive clicking noise either.

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  • daychilde@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think it’s trying to be like an AOL/CompuServe type instead of a standard ISP, which back then would not have had nearly that much information.

    I think it’s sort of like… a passing generalization, like how accurate a ren faire is or a theme park. heh

    It wasn’t really quite like that, but this is close enough to give folks not around then a general taste of it. :)

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• BruisedMoose@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I am only slightly disappointed that there isn’t any RIPscript.

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