Dialup

Jack · 06-01-2004, 03:30 AM

I miss my broadband connection :9:

Keyser Soze · 06-01-2004, 03:31 AM

welcome back to 1995

Goatweed · 06-01-2004, 03:37 AM

christ, you dont have broadband where you are now?

Galt · 06-01-2004, 03:37 AM

I didn't use the Internet for any given amount of time until '96

Jack · 06-01-2004, 03:38 AM

Assuming that Comcast isn't too busy to come and install it, I should be able to be online 24/7 again this week.

I called 2 fucking weeks ago to schedule a damn appointment. Fucking lazy assholes.

Goatweed · 06-01-2004, 03:40 AM

comcast is teh suck, good luck getting decent speeds with them.

Jack · 06-01-2004, 03:43 AM

Supposed to be 3Mbit down, 256k up.

Had good speeds at the old house which is only 2 blocks north of this one.

Goatweed · 06-01-2004, 04:05 AM

better knock on wood!!

The Jays · 06-01-2004, 04:06 AM

Galt Wrote:I didn't use the Internet for any given amount of time until '96

anyone who used the computer at home prior to 1997 was probably a dork, loser, virgin, or all three

Jack · 06-01-2004, 04:08 AM

I think I got my first home PC in 1997. Before that I would use the schools.

HedCold · 06-01-2004, 04:14 AM

i had a computer in 93, was using aol in 95/96. aol only gave you like 500 minutes a month before they started charging more

Sir O · 06-01-2004, 06:43 AM

I got my first computer around 89ish...a 286 with a 2400 bps modem. It was awesome.

Keyser Soze · 06-01-2004, 02:59 PM

i had a mighty mo 300 baud modem on my commodore 64 but i dont recall the year. the only online services those days were BBS, Compuserve soon after, then Prodigy, then AOL.

Galt · 06-01-2004, 03:22 PM

Galt Wrote:I didn't use the Internet for any given amount of time until '96

I didn't use it at home, I used it at college. I ignored it for the first two years of college, but then I heard you could plagerize a bunch of stuff and see naked chicks for free.

I didn't get a computer at my home until '00

IrishAlkey · 06-01-2004, 04:24 PM

2001

I win.

Gooch · 06-01-2004, 04:26 PM

The Jays Wrote:anyone who used the computer at home prior to 1997 was probably a dork, loser, virgin, or all three

or needed them as part of their chosen profession.

diceisgod · 06-01-2004, 10:57 PM

or psuedoboard persona...

Jack · 06-02-2004, 02:10 AM

I got cable installed today.

There are only 2 bad things that came out of the experience.

#1.. The cable guy hit on me. I had to take 2 showers after he left to feel clean again. The worst part about it, is that he looked like the pictures I have seen of The Jays.

It all came about when he was filling out the paperwork. He had been really nice, put the cables exactly where I wanted them, and I asked him how much I owed. He looked down at the sheet and said there was no charge. Odd.... I was told that there would be a 40 dollar installation fee due on installation. Then after about 4 seconds of awkward silence that seemed like 5 minutes, he goes "How about dinner and a movie"..

I kinda laughed it off and I could tell he knew I was rejecting him. I signed my name, he left and I showered twice. I never felt so dirty.

#2 is not so bad. I have to run cat 5 from where the modem and router are, all the way up to where my computer is now so that I can have a good connection. I am using a wireless B card but it is just way to slow and unreliable for me. I need hard wired.

Wireless just isn't quite fast enough for me yet.

Gooch · 06-02-2004, 02:12 AM

diceisgod Wrote:or psuedoboard persona...

Pseudo

Hick

Goatweed · 06-02-2004, 02:40 AM

so where are you goin' to dinner with him?