Mom thought I was doing the binaries too much LOL. Using ACDsee and some other program to sort and view pics LOL. Setting the computer date back so I could keep using the pic viewer LOL.
Newsgroups are still around... some people even use those over torrents to get software but you need a server with high retention.
Anonymous Coward User ID: 802395 10/25/2009 3:56 PM
Wouldn't all the "old" laptops have dial-up capability? Mine is an IBM 2004 (manufactured in 2003). CONDEMNATION without INVESTIGATION is the HIGHEST form of IGNORANCE
Anonymous Coward User ID: 777226 10/25/2009 3:57 PM
Now THAT's what I'm talkin' about.
THANKS. I had started a list like that already.
Remember the old Internet Yellow Pages book thst had lots of listings? Back in the day.
I had a composition notebook half filled with hastily scribbled addresses.
Anonymous Coward User ID: 802591 10/25/2009 3:59 PM
Mom thought I was doing the binaries too much LOL. Using ACDsee and some other program to sort and view pics LOL. Setting the computer date back so I could keep using the pic viewer LOL.
Newsgroups are still around... some people even use those over torrents to get software but you need a server with high retention.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 730810
EPIC.
Yes yes. You were on the bleeding edge of electronic pr0n. Remember how cool it was to be one of the first to upgrade to 9600 baud? You'd hear the modem relay click and race over to see what they were doing on the BBS.
Yes, chat mode was also cool. ALL HAIL THE SYSOP!!
this might be the main driver for people to keep the older os like windows xp as we could source modems with xp drivers but vista and win7 might run in to trouble The retired thread killer
... Setting the computer date back so I could keep using the pic viewer LOL.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 730810
I am using the relic Win/Me, way back to 2001! Dial-up has been my only access to the web, although it surely does have its shortcomings...no youtube, no other videos either. 32bit OS doesn't get you far nowdays with Win/Me.
As for setting the computer date back, I'd be afraid that it would bring back some kinks that I'd rather not see again. :) Spare me the hassle!
Looks like there is close to an even number of us folks still on dial-up...almost a 50/50 split.
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 667270 10/25/2009 4:11 PM
Wouldn't all the "old" laptops have dial-up capability? Mine is an IBM 2004 (manufactured in 2003).
it should, just look for a phone jack on the side.
Thanx!
Quoting: Kat Mama
If it does have the jack, you just need another phone line cord with a duplex jack to hook up your phone as well. If you are running XP then there is a Wizard for helping you setup for dialup. I mentioned NETZERO before, they offer free dialup, you just have to put up with all the extra ad's and slowness, but this is an easy way to try dialup for free and as has been suggest a good backup if you loose your other internet service. Just search for NETZERO on the web and you will get all the info you need.
this might be the main driver for people to keep the older os like windows xp as we could source modems with xp drivers but vista and win7 might run in to trouble
Quoting: bill shitters
Well let's see...have windows 95,98SE, and ms2000 full versions on disc...guess I'm set.
Anonymous Coward User ID: 654301 10/25/2009 4:17 PM
Last Edited by KunG Fu GriP on 10/25/2009 at 4:29 PM 'Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction - the things that constitutes real success - is not in earning as much as you can but in preforming as well as you can something you consider worthwhile. Whether that is healing the sick, giving hope to the hopeless or adding to the beauty of the world or saving it from a nuclear holocast...' Willam Raspberry.
Well, whatever you guys decide to do, please have the closest glper to central OK come by and show me how to use it. So now I know what I have to do. I have to keep breathing. And tomorrow the sun will rise, and who knows what the tide will bring in.
A lot of mobile phones have modem capability. Mine does and it's quite a few years old (Motorola).
If you have a cable to interface between the computer and cell phone, you could probably find the software to use it as a modem. The greatest gift you can give anyone is the example of your own life working. -Orin
Anonymous Coward User ID: 795089 10/25/2009 4:40 PM
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