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    redrocketman said:
    Fuck I miss late 90's to early 2000's computing/internet.

    I having to be quick with the internet because we had to pay it per hour and nobody could use the phone while browsing it. Oh, and using a search engine provided by the local university because Google and Yahoo weren't things a lot of people heard of where I did live at that time

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  • squirrelz said:
    I having to be quick with the internet because we had to pay it per hour and nobody could use the phone while browsing it. Oh, and using a search engine provided by the local university because Google and Yahoo weren't things a lot of people heard of where I did live at that time

    I should mention that phone was like only way to communicate with friends - no chat apps made sense as you were paying by time unit and not for data transmitted.
    "At least you had unlimited data and speed for every hour you paid". Well yes but actually no. I was ing 50MB flash animation for THREE HOURS. Hoping nobody would pick up phone as that stops all transmissions and you have to start over again.
    "You didn't had 56k modem?". I had, but that's theoretical maximum which works in labs, in reality it was easily less than 10kb/s. Yes, lower "b", not "B".
    "Well, you could just resume when you connect back". Nope! It was in time when IE4 was widespread and it was not uncommon to find web server which simply didn't ed resuming of s. So it always started again from zero. Imagine if you were ing several gigabytes of video nowadays on "slow" connection (so it takes like 5-6 hours) and after every hiccup had to start again from scratch. That's how it was back then. Or Youtube always loading videos from start with no way to seek. And interrupts were quite common back then, some recoverable, some not.
    Also there was no cloud, most of your friends still used floppy discs, CD burners were quite new and expensive technology. USB was useless, it was often faster and easier to burn CD, which also could handle much more data (700MB compared to 64MB or 128MB of your expensive flash drive).

    Also yes, there was one fixed phone located entirely in our kitchen while ONLY computer (did I mention how expensive they were?) was in first floor. You had no control about family picking phone, you had to train them to always ask if you are connected or not before picking up phone. If your Win98 (later WinXP) installation broke, you carried whole PC to local weirdo which was only one knowing what to do (insert CD you didn't have, fill in shady CD key and click next). Computers were magic for most of people back then, even young ones. Something you couldn't simply fiddle with because there was no one to help you. Add language barrier as in my country most people were taught Russian language at school (or had relatives in ), so progress was even more delayed.

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  • redrocketman said:
    Fuck I miss late 90's to early 2000's computing/internet.

    anytime i hear major brands or services that are set in the 90s like old garfield strips i always think of this polaroid-esk picture of a texas sunset along a 4 lane state route & a bnsf track.

    never knew why

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