The post on spyware, triggered some of my few remaining brain cells on how it used to be to go "online". In the days before the now relatively sophisticated internet and high-speed connections, us early 'pioneers' had to struggle with dialups to BBS's for entertainment.
Sure this was in the day of Windows 3.x, 5 1/4" floppy disks (that were actually floppy). If you had a smokin' hot 1200 baud modem, you could dial up a BBS (Bulletin Board system) to play games with others, get news stories, or download images not viewable in realtime of course. So when you wanted to get porn (presuming someone was so inclined), you had to go by a 1 line description of the picture, roll the dice, download and hope after a 20 minute download, you got something of interest.
Games were ANSI graphics and or word based (door games).
Anyway, it is some interesting history. Here's a wiki link to give you more detail on the (not so) good ol' days. Makes me wonder where we'll be in another 10 years.
486sx baby 4mb ram !!!!! we have come a long way.... came with DOS 5x something and I had to install DOS 6 that came on the "real" floppy disks - I am talking about the gian flexible ones that held 700kb.
I still remember days of playing Doom/Doom2 via a 14.4 modem , how about Civilization, Duke Nukem, I can go on for ever . . .
486sx baby 4mb ram !!!!! we have come a long way.... came with DOS 5x something and I had to install DOS 6 that came on the "real" floppy disks - I am talking about the gian flexible ones that held 700kb.
I still remember days of playing Doom/Doom2 via a 14.4 modem , how about Civilization, Duke Nukem, I can go on for ever . . .
anyone remember telnet or gopher ???
last time i used telnet was in 1998 to check my college email....
Commodore 64 (as in 64 KB of RAM - yes kilo) and a daisy wheel printer.
ahahaha...I had one of these back in like 1983 or so. My first real computer was a laptop sporting a 386 and 2400 BAUD modem. Had my first online account with Prodigy sometime around 1993 or so. Man...that was some slow shit but you didn't know it then. I think I moved to AOL about a year later then some smaller ISP about a year after that.
ahahaha...I had one of these back in like 1983 or so. My first real computer was a laptop sporting a 386 and 2400 BAUD modem. Had my first online account with Prodigy sometime around 1993 or so. Man...that was some slow shit but you didn't know it then. I think I moved to AOL about a year later then some smaller ISP about a year after that.
Yup, Prodigy and AOL, and the advent of 'newsgroups' alt.binaries.pictures....
And a laptop? Wow, I don't even remember when they began, I think Radioshack kinda got that rolling at some incredibly ridiculous price.
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Apple IIe I remember that - that was the 1st computer I ever used - got a book and started writing BASIC programs on it and everyone thought I was a G-d because when they all had to take computer class... I just played games that I wrote and the lab people did not say anything about it since they had to call me out of class to fix the computer for them... those were the times. That was back in Jr. High. Then in high school was basically the same story but now on IBM compatables.
I still use telnet everyday at work. I use it to go from my windows computer to my UNIX and other unix/linux based machines throughout the company and the world ... as said by HeMan " I have the power..."
but gopher... newsgoups... BBC ... wow now there is something
in 94... they gave us "computer classes" in high school, we played with Floppy disk and I remembered a game or something called "Oklahoma Trail" or something like that.
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we have come a long way.... came with DOS 5x something and I had to install DOS 6 that came on the "real" floppy disks - I am talking about the gian flexible ones that held 700kb.
