Posted on 10/15/2006 10:03:05 AM PDT by MotleyGirl70
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Do people still use AOL anymore? They are the worst ISP, IMO.
are you sure that the first part is from 93? there is no GUI on the computers, and I know windows 3.11 and AOL 1.1 (which had a GUI) was around at that time.
well I take that back I do see some kinda GUI but I don't recognize the OS
Haha...I remember the AOL floppy disk sent in the mail that said 15 hours free. We just bought the lightning fast 386 and sat there in wonderment as the internet dialed out slowly, then the digital tone and static, then the long wait for the handshake, upload-download, etc.. We possessed the same awe as our forefathers that travelled miles to see their first factory and saw the billowing smokestack dirtying their drying laundry as a source of great pride.
I was listening to Rush and wished I could access Compuserve but didn't know the address (duh?) so I chatted in the AOL rooms.
Good memories! Thanks.
I also recall playing the old shareware Duke Nukem and Commander Keen.
I remember what a pain it was to dial in and then when someone tried to call me, I'd get booted off and it would say "Good-bye."
My first computer was a $3000 (rip off) Packard Bell. It was super slow too.
DW had a Packard Bell 286 prior to marriage. I think our 386 was a Compaq.
Remember the days of DOS.
My first computer in 1994 was a Packard Bell with 4 mg ram and 300 mg hard drive, and a 3600 baud modem. I think my first ISP provider then was Prodigy. Went straight to the games, then to the porn section. LOL.
But even before that, like 2 or 3 years earlier, there was some service that sold a dial up connection and if you didn't have a PC, gave you a monochrome terminal with a keyboard. It was like $16.95 a month, maybe the service was GEnie or something, I can't remember. It had all kinds of stuff but took forever to download even minimal data, so it must have been a 300 baud modem. Gave it back after a month.
I remember when we got our first computer and we would get booted when the phone rang. Also, the early chat rooms were anything BUT chat. They were all out uncensored warfare! Loved them!
Any MSTies remember this skit?
Mike: You might wanna be careful, hi everybody, welcome to the Satellite of Love! You're just in time to see ol' Crow here log onto the Information Superhighway! Why don't you tell us about your system there, Crow?
Crow: Oh, you know. It's just a multimedia package, nothing special. A 90 mHz. Pentium with 32 megs of RAM and a quadruple speed NEC CD-ROM, Soundblaster 16 multi-CD sound card, I threw that in... And a Courier v.24 38 Kbaud modem.
Servo: And you think that'll make you happy, huh?
Crow: Yeah! Accessing SLIP server... Entering my IP address... Okay... Crow@biteme.com... Hahaha... And... ENTER!
Servo: Huh? "Server timed out, try again"?
Crow: Oh. I can read, thank you! Must've typed the wrong parameters...
Mike: But soon, you will be merging onto the Information...
Crow: That's right, Mike! I'll be pulling out into the Information Superhighway... and... uh... traffic... well, uh...
Mike: Looks like it locked up, huh?
Servo: "Looking for UART at FX1050"? What does that mean?
Crow: I DON'T KNOW!!! I must've configured my com ports incorrectly. You know, I'll just assign my modem to a different com port and get back into my SLIP server and... uh...
Servo: Woah!
Mike: Locked up tight!
Servo: "Looking for UART at FX1050."
Crow: I CAN READ!!! Don't you think I can read?!
Servo: Gee, sorry!
Crow: Alright! Okay... I'll try this... "LET ME ON THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY YOU STUPID LITTLE..."
Servo: "Still looking for UART at FX1050."
Crow: LET ME ON THE INFORMATION SUPER HIGHWAY!!! I WANT ON THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY!!!
Mike: We'll be right back! Careful with that! Calm down! Calm down!
"The Internet is for Porn
The INternet is for Porn..."
Great, now that song will be going through my head...
S-100 with CP/M -- 64 Meg of memory, dual 8" floppies. Wordstar and Visicalc and BASIC.
Only $10,000. And I had to write all my own accounting software.
Do you all remember this typical conversation on the old chatrooms and forums:
A "Married with Children" classic moment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ19lhZf6mE&mode=related&search=
My brother had an IBM-clone PC in 1983 that he hooked up to his B&W TV. Everything was written in code by him and that was what he considered fun. It was so annoying getting to the point where you could make a picture of a man using 0s and 1s that I swore off computers until 1991.
That is beautiful!
Thanks!
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