The 56k Modem Days!

Wiggins · 8 Apr 2009 at 08:59

Ah the joys of 56k and MSN Chat.

15min download of an MP3 when Napster was in its infancy.

antijoke · 8 Apr 2009 at 09:04

Barrysworld F T W!

Seems an age ago that I was using Napster, playing games through Gamespy, playing HL on my 56k modem.

VeNT · 8 Apr 2009 at 09:05

Burnsy2023 said:
Indeed, I spent far too many hours on Air Attack.

hehe i was in guards! did you bother with a squad?

slickback · 8 Apr 2009 at 09:57

Web 0.5 websites were full of animated gif and then bang 50 million sites would open up, for everyone you closed 10 more would open up the only option was to restart the PC.

Freefaller · 8 Apr 2009 at 10:12

I remember my 9600 baud days and BBS servers. There was something geeky about setting up modems, dial strings and so on. I remember multiplexing 2 connections together and was amazed at the download capacity of 28.8 modems! Funny thing is now we have mobile phones which can browse the internet!! Who'd have thunk it?!

Burnsy2023 · 8 Apr 2009 at 10:15

VeNT said:
hehe i was in guards! did you bother with a squad?

Nope, but that name does ring bells.

LukeTW · 8 Apr 2009 at 10:18

I remember when we used to have it, there was only one PC in the house and me and my brother would always fight over it

Black hawk down, MSN & kazza

LiaMar_QQ · 8 Apr 2009 at 10:21

gumbald said:
Move house, Warrington's lovely this time of year.

Warrington is never lovely at any time of year!! :confused:

Although i never have to complain about my net speed!

Margaret · 8 Apr 2009 at 10:41

Had an alarm that let me know when the phone was about to ring if I was on the internet. :rolleyes:

Dark_Angel · 8 Apr 2009 at 10:50

Burnsy2023 said:
Ahh, the wonders of being able to use the net and talk on the phone AT THE SAME TIME!!

Yeah! I remember my friends always used to try and call me only to get told the line is busy.

It used to annoy the hell out of them

panthro · 8 Apr 2009 at 10:54

LukeTW said:
Black hawk down, MSN & kazza

Thats nu-skool compared to what I remember using when I first got the internet!

thecremeegg · 8 Apr 2009 at 11:06

Those were the days, napster rocked

Used to try and play online doom and always failed miserably. We were with compuserve at first then moved to virgin so we cud pay monthly and not have huge bills. Only ever got 28.8k though as our phoneline couldnt handle the speed apparently

elroberto · 8 Apr 2009 at 11:27

dangerstat said:
fap....................................fap fap fap.............................fap.............................fap fap fap........................................fap fap fap fap........................................fap.............fap........................fapfap.....................................fapfapfapfapfapfap

And then the horror when you saw the evidence that it was a ladyboy....followed by a bit more fapfapfap of course!

JudgeC · 8 Apr 2009 at 11:31

My first modem was on the C64 (Circa 1986) and if my memory serves me correctly was 1200bps down & 300bps up.
Used it to connect to Compunet (Edit: Not compuserve, that was way later - Doh) and play MUD.

J.B · 8 Apr 2009 at 11:43

I remember being compltly amazed that my friend who had BB before anyone else could download a song on Kazaa, start listening to it and it would be finished downloading by the time the song had played.

hybrid · 8 Apr 2009 at 11:45

ahh i remember using loads of AOL disks just to get my free hours lol.

They were the days

Gimpymoo · 8 Apr 2009 at 11:46

My dial-up modem was not even 56k

33.6 I had.

For anyone who did go for 56k in its twilight years, did you go with 56k Flex or X2?

I stayed with the 33.6 untill I got Broadband as the cost of a new dial up modem could not be justified with the "real life" increases going from 33.6 to 56k.

For the record, my ISP (Diamond Cable) only supported the K56 Flex standard.

Napster for the win

although nowadays it is a BIG fail of course.

medley · 8 Apr 2009 at 11:52

One of my mates went round computer fairs and bought about 5 different modems. All because he wanted a 180 ping on CS. He was sick of lagging around with 500 and it was unplayable. One of his mates asked the guy 'will this give me good ping?' Haha.

Solaris · 8 Apr 2009 at 11:53

Check it out now....

Worlds fastest home internet connection is now 40 Gigabits a second....

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/07/worlds-fastest-.html

I've heard stories of people shipping data accross england on punch cards before the net. Those were the days....