Anyone remember old school interent?? Trading .jpegs on 28.8 modem on AOL??

Used to get porn pics from girls on AOL lol

You were born before the 1900s? You must be the oldest person in the world! Phones have been around for quite a while. ;P

....well my old school ...is even a bit older.....heheheh damn im old, but using my 2400 baud to connect to a bbs halfway across the county using free long distance from a half ass attempt at a blue box...

No doubt! And when the owner of Ebay sent emails out offering stock to ebayers early on. I bought some to help him grow, and lost all information of it thinking nothing would come of it. Haha! Boy was I wrong!

Quantum Link at 300 baud!!!!!!!!

You do realize that some of those are worth hundreds of dollars now, right ?

Red boxing payphones for free calls was fun, and that shit worked for YEARS. They were so cheap and easy to build too...

i remember having windows 3.1 on floppy disk worked great because the disks you but at walmart windows 95 98 etc were upgrade disks so put in the 3.1 disks tell the computer to upgrade the software from A drive worked like a charm took around 7 disks i think for 3.1

IBM PS2 16mb ram 64mb hd running Windows 3.0 56.6 modem and Compuserve. That squealing modem sound never goes away.

300 baud, then 1200 baud, the 2400, then 4800 and 9600 baud, followed by 14.4k, 28.8, 33.6, and 54k. I lived through and used all of those speeds. Today's broadband is glorious compared to then.

I own classified documents on floppys. Can't wait to release the data next year.

I hope everyone still has a modem in case we get blown back to the stone age. 300 baud will be the shit, again!!!

NiatsTihs

I had a program that I loved that would take a large program, say 5mb and split it to fit on 3 or 4 floppies. Then it would reassemble the program on another computer.

9600 Baud here

BBS were a great way to share files and download games.

I remember downloading Wolfenstien and it took me a better part of a week to do it.

I started late on BBS's when I was 12 or so, so that was around '92, then on to AOL.

What was great about early AOL was you could have them deliver 50 of the free trial disks to your door with fresh temp usernames / passwords. And then with a CC generator, generate unlimited CC#'s that may not have been real, but followed the correct pattern.

Back then, the system would initially only check to see if the number was a valid pattern, and they would validate the actual card after 30 days. So at 29 days, start a new account and tell all your friends your new username.

Worked for awhile. Then there were also tricks to make the system think you were in a 'free area' the whole time you were logged in. Remember, AOL's monthly plan was 4 hours free and then you pay per hour after.

I would also try this on CompuServ, eWorld, etc. But AOL had the best community for Warez.

My first computer was a Apple Performa 475, which had a 25mhz LC040 chip...no FPU. A nice processor for the time,great for Kings Quest 6 / Monkey Island II. It shipped with a 2400 baud modem, so you're looking at 1MB / hr. I later had 14.4, 33.6, and then 56.k. The 56K was quick enough to run a Hotline server for ROMs.

What really sucked me into computers then, was HyperCard. I would make games, fake OS's, and 'zines all night long. Thank you Bill Atkinson!

And we all know the dark site of the web was Usenet...made no look like church.

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This!

Yeah! Love it. Simple, gentler time.

Did anybody ever use one of those acoustic couplers that you put the phone receiver in?

I was thinking today while trying to get Christmas carols on AOL radio about that silly "You've got mail!"

It was much more appealing than those awful dissonant noises that Windows has for system sounds.

Did anybody else ever use Genie, and take part in Jerry Pournelle's board? There was some good stuff there

Well, sometimes is it!