I can still hear every sound including the error at the end...

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  ALL I WANT TO DO IS LOOK AT PORN YOU STUPID FUCKING COMPUTER!

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  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Back in my day, porn was found in a magazine someone ditched along a forest path and that’s how we liked it!

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    • RavenFellBlade@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How common was this? That was precisely how I discovered porn. Found a Hustler magazine on a trail I used as a shortcut between housing developments on my paper route when I was 11. Then found a whole stash of them in another part of the woods near a tree fort I built with some friends.

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    • thorbot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      this is my porn origin story, found a crusty old magazine in a sandrock lean-to that was clearly a person’s hidey hole. we buried it in shame after it seared into our memories

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    • NaoPb@eviltoast.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Haha, exactly! And with plenty of pubic hair so you’d still have to use your imagination.

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  • ramble81@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I remember you had to pick and choose what images you wanted because of how long it took to download. Thumbnails were critical and nothing more of a cock block then the image getting corrupted part way through.

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• Jikal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And you could tell from the sound if it was gonna connect at a good rate too

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• ExLisper@linux.community ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What the internet was like? Glorious! No stupid internet points, no followers, no tracking. Just random content. Good times…

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  • son_named_bort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There was even a friendly purple ape named Bonzi Buddy who helped me surf the web. Couldn’t have something like that these days without spyware.

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  • pHr34kY@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You never saw IE6 running on Win98 with a dozen toolbars installed, did you? The place was infested and you actually needed to know what you were doing.

    Antivirus would be pinging constantly back in those days. I haven’t had my AV detect anything since the early 2000s.

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    • ExLisper@linux.community ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Now you have catphishing, ransomwere, lot’s of different types of scammers and your credit cards can be stolen from some random e-commerce site. You also need to know what you’re doing.

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    • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Remember when we all suddenly needed personal firewalls after that one virus that kept shutting down the PC with 60 seconds notice.

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaster_(computer_worm)

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  • WashedOver@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The ICQ, AOL and MSN chats were a big focus then. I can still hear those notifications too. It was a simpler time before psychology was brought into hijack our attention.

    They have done a excellent job of that with the latest generation of the web. It’s too bad we have lost much of the soul of the early web in the process…

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    • Chekhovs_Gun@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A/S/L?

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• froh42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Oh my, that dad is young. The bwong bwong bwong came later with the faster transmission speeds.

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  • Retrograde@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well to be fair the boy is asking the father, not his grandfather :)

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• Arghblarg@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Young whelps! I could debug my programs by putting an FM radio beside my rig and listening to the interference :P

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• perishthethought@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m old but I don’t know what the “bwong bwong bwong” is. Anyone?

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  • ramble81@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I believe that part was doing a sound quality test to ensure the data rate could be reached. If the line quality was bad it would connect at a slower rate since it was based on frequency.

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    • FrenLivesMatter@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yup, and whether the modem on the other side was able to reach the same data rate as well.

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  • thorbot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    BWONG BWONG BWONG rrrrrrrrrrrrr EEEEEEEEEEEEE kCHHHHHHHHHH eReReReReR

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  • NOPper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Are you old enough to have had dialup?

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    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I am and I’m drawing a blank. I remember kchshchshchchchchch eeeeeedle eeedllllllllle, then some croaking and various phone sounds, no bwongs though.

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  • pedz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s a specific 56K protocol. There were a few different types of 56K modems and they did the last part of the handshake differently. One did the “boing boing” and another common one had more of an ascending tone at the end of the handshake.

    You can hear the boing boing one at the end (1m54s) of that example www.youtube.com/watch?v=xalTFH5ht-k

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• ares35@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  half the time it sounded like this..

  bzzzzzt...... bzzzzzt...... bzzzzzt...... bzzzzzt...... bzzzzzt......

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• voodooattack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not a shitpost tbh. Too true.

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  • thorbot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    the drawing is pretty shitpost level, its just the same 4 frames copy pasted

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    • kamenlady@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The boy’s mouth changes though

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• FrenLivesMatter@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Needs a Spongbob style “5 minutes laturrr” voiceover between the 3rd and 4th panel.

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• m3t00@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Imagined that cartoon progressively downloading while I sipped coffee. The image size told the browser how much space to leave for lagging graphics. Text browsers were best over dialup untill mbs speeds arrived. Cable modems eliminated the modem speaker since they were never used for human frequency range

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  • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSKBRWoGvL0

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