Early Days Of The Internet...I Miss This

No one that lived through it needs to ever hear it again.

...although the time it took did kind of build up some mild suspense.

Did I get a 14400 connection? Shit, just 9600...try again.

My first modem was 1200 baud but I actually downgraded to 300 baud because I wanted to have the same modem as my friend for our commadore 64s'.

Not very many of the BBS's I were calling were up to 1200 baud yet anyways so the downgrade wasn't as bad as it sounds.

After that I pretty much had every speed of modem.

I miss those BBS's.

USENET was integral in the formation and evolution of today's internet.

There is a wealth of UNCENSORED information there to those who know how to look.

It can be accessed through Google...

We had two landlines back then, probably because downloading a nudie pic took 3 hours.

Modem to modem Doom was great, but you could only play with one buddy.