BREAKING: News May Soon Be Read ON THE COMPUTER

just mind boggling. look at that technology. so fascinating. i could sit all day watching one of those 12" screens and its green text.

That's almost as bad as me spending 45 minutes loading up a 30 minute youtube.

I can't wait til I get the internet

Considering the average modem speed in 1981 was 300bps, I'm estimating the entire daily paper was about 135KB.

Common computers in 1981 only had around 4KB to 64KB of RAM. The daily paper wouldn't even have fit in memory on most of them. You would have had to view articles separately and then printed them or saved them to cassette tape or maybe floppy disk if you were cutting edge. A floppy might have held around 175KB at that time, depending on which computer system you had.

Just the html of the first page of this thread is 112KB, without any pictures, icons, avatars, etc.

The GLP webserver generated it in 5 thousandths of a second, and it downloaded to my computer, across a distance of over 1000 miles in about 1 second, including pictures.

ah but here's the question.
If you were left alone on a remote island, in some woods, with just a hatchet. How long before you could send me an email?

whats a computer?

video killed the radio star.... so why not... next thing are those freaky 3D plasma hologram computers that you can role-play in....

Somebody has infiltrated the fandango rangers. This stuff is not as sexy as satanic moloch worship at the Bohemian Grove, or bunga bunga parties at bildergberg, but it should have been kept secret anyway.

Them 'ole rangers are going to have to work twice as hard to save our asses now that the Illuminati have some backside intel about how the F.R. corps gets the backside intel.

Never managed to learn DOS.

old computer stuff is interesting as a marker of time gone by.

If only somebody would create a NEWS collecting organization to inform the folks on matters of importance

Last Edited by Big Duke6 on 07/31/2013 07:03 AM

What's the internet?

It is a series of tubes, Al Gore took the initiative to invent it in the 1990s. But it got boring for him, so then he invented global climate change. He has two mansions. One of them is in the top 10 of largest private residences in north america. The other is an ocean front California vista. He has a couple of private jets to get around.

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"Das Internet ist für uns alle Neuland."

The internet is a novelty for us all."

Best quote from the clip:

"We don't expect to ever make any money by posting our news on the internet"



Last Edited by PIR on 07/31/2013 08:10 AM

Oh these days I so remember.... :)

I got my first computer is 1979.....

and had my first run in with the govt in 1983 after hacking the long distance networks.... for free LD calling codes.

I was the kid that ended up on TV back in 1983... hehehehe

Thankfully THEN there really was no laws on the books to deal with what I had done... not to mention I was 13 years old and it kind of embarrassed them that a 13 year old broke their LD calling cards... If I recall the LD nets I hacked where named at the time U.S. Sprint, TelTek and it was either MCI or I simply have forgot the third at this point.

And yes, I did end up with a life in the IT field... :)

The tools I used for my mission at the time was:

1. Atari 800 with Amdek Color Monitor

2. Hayes "Direct Connect" 300 Baud Modem (might have been the 300/1200 at that point, can not remember)

3. Private Telephone line, supplied by parents... (thanks mom)

4. Some printer (brand can't remember) that printed on a brown roll of paper (looks like paper towels)

5. Atari Basic Language Cartridge

6. A day at school while my computer ran my hack

7. My Brain


So... here is my "old school" hack.

I would dial the LD Network 800 access number (US Sprint for example) and then try a 6 digit code (yes, LD network access codes were old 6 digits then... hehe)... I would then enter the "destination number" to connect to as the local COMPUSERVE telephone number... because Compuserve was NEVER busy... always a carrier... well if my modem connected I knew the 6 digit code was good and printed it on the printer... if the code was no good it would never connect to compuserve....

when done with one 6 digit code advance it one digit and then do it all over.

I would come home from school with 50 - 200 new LD codes every day.

It was my handing them out to people at school to make free calls from the pay phone that finally caught up with me... ahahhahahaah

I guess being 13 I had not developed enough common sense on the concept of "stay off the radar".

Ohhhh the fun times.....

Maybe one day I will post a story on here (old school old time hacker) about all the crazy shit I did as a kid ... oh how I miss my Rainbow Box, Red Box, Black Box and other "experiments" that we (myself and other hacker kids) would build to exploit shit. :)

For example, do you know that there are MORE touch tone frequencies (DTMF) then you have on your telephone pad... most people only know about 0-9 and # plus * THERE ARE MORE :) Few people know about the A,B,C,D touch tones.

Additional touch tones get you access to "other" functions of the networks... like taking over trunk transfers and other fun features...

at least it used to... ahem. I am a good boy now.

Other old hacks here will remember the "big networks" of the time... CompuServe, The Source, Down Jones, etc.. all National Dial up services...

The BBSes were another story.... started my first BBS in 1982 and never looked back. I ended up with a VERY large BBS with over 64 telephone lines (ran software called MajorBBS) and had a national chat upline called WORLDCHAT.

On man... so many memories....

Makes me think of another story... "Some Kid", not naming any names, decided to give his Dean of Students at his private school a "present". Gave him a brand new digital clock for his desk... well his "present" has a special gift inside it.... a mini FM transmitter. :) So after the gift was received and placed in said office "Some Kid" could sit outside against the wall of the building listening to "music" on his "walkman" and get the direct scoop on the Deans "Planned Raids" of lockers and other things. Seems "Some Kid" always seemed to be able to warn "Other Kids" of pending locker raids and other "anti-kid operations" by said "Dean" because said "Dead" always held the meeting in his office with other involved "Anti-Kid Operatives"...

LOL... needless to said the Dean could never understand why so many of his operations were failures.... eheheheheh

Oh the good ol days..... sigh.

I remember being in seventh grade and had a computer in the class with that old fashioned phone modem. It felt like we were so advanced! LOL

LOL And the advertising industry.

I lol'd out loud a that!

Shit, have we got the infamous 'Zero Cool' among us?

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Don't worry about it, its surely just a fad that will pass.

BREAKING! ATARI introduce home entertainment system based on you television using a, what we call, 'joystick'

start a new thread! that will be epic.
i was right along with you there and yes im aware of the ABCD dtmf frequencies..

i remember waiting for the new issue of PHRACK when it would ping pong through all the BBS's and fidonet..

Sign me up if they ever start doing video on this internet thingy.

apparently there's this new fandagally thingymabob called a 'mouse'

I bet those keyboards still work.

What kind of sorcery is this?

Last Edited by Cat_Carel on 08/07/2013 11:54 PM

LOVE this video

@ 11:57
if possible get a 28,800 modem .. it's well worth the investment. LOL

i remember first on the internet at 9600

had a gateway through a BBS i subscribed to with 10mb of disk on their server

i could jump through and use LYNX or PINE or TIN (web, email, usenet) and download a file to my little virtual disk and then download later through my modem while i slept.

Last Edited by Anubis on 08/08/2013 12:12 AM

"Of the estimated 2 to 3000 home computer owners in the Bay Area..."

Wow.

It's incredible to look at how vastly different the world was just 32 years ago.

Pin request and 5*.