It's giving me anxiety about waking my parents up

Yeah but once I am connected I can do this... https://m.primal.net/LttC.jpg Then when I try to open the internet, I can do this https://m.primal.net/HiQh.jpg

What about these 😂 https://dl.vanderwarker.family/sounds/effects/AIM_Sounds/

A beautiful cacophony

😂

Good memories

😂🫂🫂🫂🔥

The struggle was real

you can still get dial up service from sdf.org ☎️ not sure why youd want it, but still fun.

Mom, hang up! I’m playing UO!

You mean, we are old :P

I will never forget Compuserve

₿leeeeeeeeeeeeep ₿looooooooooooooooop Grrrlrlrrrrrrrrlllrrrrrlllrrrrrrrrrrrrr

I am still hear 14.4 dial up modem squelch. 1GB HD desktop. The university Doom nerds were losing their minds

Someone picked up the other line and now I got to start the process all over again.

holy shit, what a time!

Those who can’t … let em learn

The realist pain ever. I always needed at least a few attempts..

28.8kbps

A simpler age… as long as no one picked up a phone receiver while your real-player wasn’t in the middle of buffering

Beeeeep… krrrrrrrrrrshhh… ksh ksh ksh… Deeeeeeeeee-doo-weeee-ooooo… screeeech-bzzzz… Ka-ksh ka-ksh… bee-beep-beeeeeeeep… krrrrrrrrshhh! That unmistakable blend of static bursts, rising whistles, and jagged screeches, as if two machines were fighting just to shake hands 🦾

I miss that sound.

Straight out of an horror movie

Maaa, dont pick up the phone!!!

ISDN with Link Aggregation in europe with 128 kbit/s didn't make any sounds though.

Loud and clear! https://media.tenor.com/kHjDl-ynJVgAAAAC/oldman-old.gif

Oh, bad flashback...

I did dial-up tech support for too long. That sound is burned into by brain.

🤣

You mean: biiiiiiii... biru biru biru biru.... biiiii..... ?

Right on. https://v.nostr.build/YZMgCIw495nIjMrE.mp4

1995 here we come :D

I dialed in to BBS’s on a C64 using a 1200 baud modem.

Never used Windows with a modem.

One of my earliest memories is using my gradfathers dial-up computer back in the mid-90s.

That and encyclopedias. 🤙

Caught the last glimpse of it in the early 2000s but even in modern times in some rural areas in The United States Dial Up is still common.

And that’s not a cup holder, it’s where my AOL startup CD goes!

Ahhhh misspent youth

Piiiiiiiiiiigrghrhrhhrhrhrhhhghfgh…piiiiiii

Netscapeeeee

I do, and it's fuzzy and warm.

i can hear this picture but im still in my sexual prime, make no mistake

Nostalgia

Feeling old!

rhymes with my tinnitus