90's internet vs modern internet

Waiting 15 minutes for 30 seconds of porn to download.

I don't think I could go back to that to be honest, when you're used to downloading a full length hi def adult film for every tug you just can't go back to the low res previews.

I get what you mean though, go my old n64 out the other day. And to be honest, it was more fun than any game I'd played in the past 5 years.
 
I didn't mind the low quality porn back in the day as I was only young, it was sharing my porn collection with a mate that makes me laugh, giving him a stack of 20 odd floppy disks at a time, full of poorly compressed JPEG images. Good times.
 
Ghosteh said:
I didn't mind the low quality porn back in the day as I was only young, it was sharing my porn collection with a mate that makes me laugh, giving him a stack of 20 odd floppy disks at a time, full of poorly compressed JPEG images. Good times.
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Floppy disks, aren't exactly aptly named now are they?

:p
 
I remember my first ever 56k connection, was simply stunning :p

Lycos/Yahoo chat :D and the likes.

Also remember my friend getting his at the same time, he went for a cheaper service, and it was very hit and miss actually dialling in as it was so busy, sometimes you would have to attempt to connect multiple times (redialing the number like 10-15 times before you were able to connect) and it was limited to like 2 hours before you were booted off and you had to reconnect :p made downloading stuff a nightmare for bigger files.
 
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It was a bit later than the nineties but i remember some guy downloaded HL2 + steam etc on a 56k, took him weeks, good on him as well, that's dedication.
 
loved the modem connecting sound and prepaid internet cards :D

aside from that i pretty much hated everything lol
 
Having just had sky FTTC installed I vote modern internet :)

Also with the introduction of broadband online gaming came into its own. I remember playing BF2142 on a dial up connection, and while it was certainly fun, broadband made the game.
 
Ahh the old days of 56K... I originally started to use the internet on my Dad's PC's back in the late 90's but only for playing old Shockwave games, and we originally started out on BT before then moving to AOHell in late 1999.

It was really from 2001 onwards that I really started to hammer the internet with downloading... wow to think how many hours I wasted just waiting for a 20MB file to dowload (or having to start again from scratch sometimes because of the 90 minute timer!).

One of the memories I remember was when I started playing Runescape and hating it whenever I accidentally cleared the browser history or when they updated the game because I had to wait like 10 minutes for the game to re-download/buffer the updates!

The good ol' dial up modems will be something that I will always remember - them funny dialing tones & getting told off by my Mum because she couldn't use the phone/recieve any phone calls while I was on the internet lol :D

Always downloading at 4.10kb/s.... that is something that I will never miss, as already mentioned - the hours I wasted while I waited for a file to download is madness.

When I finally managed to get 512K broadband back in early 2004 and then being able to download at 60kb/s, it was like a god send - and I never looked back! I'm currently on BT's WBC connected at 11MB and downloading at 1.1MB/s, and loving every minute of it :)

Liam
 
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Agreed. There was more mystery to it - not it's just common place and EVERYONE has access.

Still, I do like the internet - however the internet of dial up generation was more exciting to me. As getting a 9600 baud modem to connect was a challenge in itself, and getting online was awesome!

I still remember using telnet and BBS services, as well as pc anywhere - connecting to another PC! OMGLOL!

Then again the 'net only really started to come around when I was in my late teens so seeing it evolve has been fun - I think I just accept the way it is now. It's almost exploded beyond control... almost.
 
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I also remember having a 400mhz Celeron and a 2x CD Writer. Took 45 minutes to burn a music cd, haha.
 
Just downloaded the Windows 8 CP ISO. Took <15 minutes on my newly upgraded 60MB Virgin line (cheers Usain).

Apparently this would have taken 223 hours, 48 minutes and 34 seconds on 56k, assuming a 20% overhead from normal browsing.

Geocities or not, new Internet takes the crown for me. :)
 
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I also remember having a 400mhz Celeron and a 2x CD Writer. Took 45 minutes to burn a music cd, haha.
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Oh yes! And getting bloody MSCDEX.exe to load in higher memory and configure all the IDE drives to master/slave etc... great fun! :D

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I preferred the underground'esq / unofficial environment that the 90's offered.
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Yeah - it was almost an exclusive club - I liked it when people said "what's the internet?". Now every pleb is on it.

Sure it does offer access to huge amount of info - and info that everyone is entitled to. And this is progress - progress is good. However... sometimes too much information, and information in the hands of ignoramuses should be limited ;)
 
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