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This, I was one of those in 56k era. My dad walked to bathroom to piss at 2am and still saw me in front of computer, and boom! cut the rj11 wire into 10 pieces.
by Existenceblinks 5y ago
This, I was one of those in 56k era. My dad walked to bathroom to piss at 2am and still saw me in front of computer, and boom! cut the rj11 wire into 10 pieces. Next day I bought a new wire, and this time he didn't cut the wire but put a bug on a modem splitter by slightly took off a copper inside a little, it looked like it's connected but it's not. I fixed that. Next time he just told my mom to deal with me instead .. that is a short version of the story.
- hiram112 5y agoHaha, back in those days my mother could just pick up a phone in another room, and it would disconnect my modem from the internet. Maybe that was just an issue in how my own home's POTS line was installed, but it would infuriate me so much to have to restart that HUUUUGE 30 minute / 10MB download (probably of a naughty pic), that I'd eventually just give up and read a book or watch TV.
- krallja 5y agoWe got a second phone line once we kids started doing the same thing to the parents.