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carpathiaman@reddit

What protocols do you think they'd use? Kermit? Xmodem?

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But you could overclock it, right? It was only 4.77 out of the box. And it ran much faster when you defragged with Norton pretty much every day. Big fun to watch the character-based display show your files being moved.

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Necessary-Warthog577@reddit

de mémoire non, c'est le 8088 qui tournait à 8 MHz

j'adorais le parquage des têtes du disque dur

il fallait attendre 1min pour le test des 640 kb de mémoire vive

et le bruit du boot était détonnant

j'avais un HDD de 20 Mo dessus et j'utilisais doublespace sous DOS pour avoir l'impression de gagner quelques Mb !

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FunboyFrags@reddit

I remember when a screen of plain text, displaying one line at a time over a 300 baud connection, was literally the most exciting thing in my childhood.

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mwehle@reddit

I remember the whine of the 300 baud modem picking up and giving a carrier signal, then placing the phone into its receptacle and the teletype clunking away one character at a time, line by line, being the most exciting thing ever. And then when we got access to CGA monitors!! OMG.

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miner_cooling_trials@reddit

Amen. I recall my parents dialling into BBSes and I got to play some text based adventures as a kid. I still remember that an orc stole my loin cloth

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stoobie3@reddit

1200 baud here, but just as exciting. I was hooked, and have stayed hooked ever since

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orion3311@reddit

2400 baud here...saame.

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NorCalFrances@reddit

Text based Compuserve. I never went through a commercial ISP like that, I went straight from BBS's to dialing directly into a local university's mainframe. But it really was all still pretty exciting to be honest to connect to faraway systems *and* still have local processing ability.

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aakaase@reddit

Hell yes. I didn't go to University immediately after high school in the 90s so I missed out.

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NorCalFrances@reddit

I hung out in the university's basement "data processing" department and eventually weaseled the modem bank phone number and a login out of someone. I probably used it for a decade, until DSL was widespread.

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aakaase@reddit

Good for you, that's great... Do you remember having to set up a "SLIP connection" instead of PPP? I remember before Windows 95 there was some program called Trumpet Winsock for Windows 3.1 you had to use. By the time I was dialing up (early 1996), I was using Windows 95 with PPP so that was outdated.

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NorCalFrances@reddit

The the full networking stack was the hardest part to find even after WFW 3.11 - for a short while people were getting it from the floppy in the back of a certain library book that included a copy of Trumpet. Thanks for refreshing those neurons!

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canthearu_ack@reddit

Damnit,

Now I gotta try that out.

Have a 486-DX2 at 66mhz I could chuck windows 3.1 on, then Trumpet winsock and hook it through a DOS ethernet driver to get a TCP/IP stack running on windows 3.1. Back in the old days, Trumpet would drive your modem, but with modems being a bit of a impossible to use technology, you can also point trumpet to the DOS packet driver of an ethernet card and TCP/IP over that instead.

Then use netscape and visit the retroweb or something that can grok it.

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aakaase@reddit

OMG, i completely forgot that obtaining software was hard before the means of obtaining software easily existed. 🤯 And I also forgot those poly pockets in the back of computer books that had floppies or CDs at the time!

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vacuumCleaner555@reddit

I used delphi. They were pretty good. But weekdays until 6:00pm had surcharges of $9/hour via sprintnet and tymenet. I wanted them to continue the text service way beyond the point that they did but they were looking to discontinue their vax system.

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maokaby@reddit

In my country internet was so expensive that I never used it. But we had unmetered landline phones, so end up with hundreds of private BBS and fidonet network. I also had a fidonet node, and a BBS, running on OS/2 3.0 Warp, it was so cool for me, a teenager. Felt like I am a part of something big and important.

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SomePeopleCallMeJJ@reddit

Actually, I'm pretty sure Compuserve wouldn't have technically been an ISP at the time I'm assuming that photo was taken (early '80s?). They had their own proprietary services and didn't allow users to branch out beyond their walled garden and onto Internet until the very late '80s.

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Current_Yellow7722@reddit (OP)

Post it!

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ksuwildkat@reddit

Ah yes back when getting on the internet together was "safe" for a marriage.

"Honey what is ASCII Art?"

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