
We remember when this was all fields, and lived a furtive life of dial-up modems and dodgy newsgroups. Tell us about how you came to love the internets.
( , Thu 22 Mar 2012, 11:56)
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there's more than enough stories here from my vintage of usenet, text-based irc and telnet. Even if I could remember accurately. (Mind you Mosaic was a fucking good browser compared to some of the shit that's been doled out since then!)
This story is about when I finally got ADSL.
For many years I lived in an area that was too far from the nearest DSLAM, had shitty copper wiring and the landline was basically dodgy.
So for many years all I could rely on was a 56k modem (eventually upgraded to V.92 then ISDN) for all my nefarious web-surfing episodes.
Now I regularly used my mums uni account (T1 no less) to download & burn/zip what I had to - bear in mind in those days a 256Mb usb key was absolute luxury. Barring those useless fucking BENQ slide-out ones which were next to useless.
We eventually moved and I got our 1st broadband account.
Ohh. The glut.
My first taste was downloading a 1Mb pic of Marg Helgenberger.
*Snap*
Like that.
Oh happy days.
Several terabytes of movies, music, tv-shows, archives, debs (as an apt mirror for more than a couple of distros) , executables, pr0n and youtube vids (amongst others) later here I am.
I regularly use over my 100 Gb. bandwidth.
Moore's Law. Pfft.
( , Sat 24 Mar 2012, 6:35, 4 replies)

How do you manage that?
( , Sat 24 Mar 2012, 11:50, closed)

"movies, music, tv-shows, archives, debs (as an apt mirror for more than a couple of distros) , executables, pr0n and youtube vids (amongst others)"
( , Sat 24 Mar 2012, 12:09, closed)
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