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Now that I think about it, my first visit to the Internet was on a 486 (though I’d been using the same machine to access BBSes beforehand). I guess that’d be th

Now that I think about it, my first visit to the Internet was on a 486 (though I’d been using the same machine to access BBSes beforehand). I guess that’d be the same for a bunch of people here.

BobMcBob 5y ago
Yep, same here. Rocked a Packard Bell 486DX2 66mhz, with 8MB Ram, and a 400MB HDD. Came with a 14,4kbps modem that I upgraded to 33.6kbps. BBSes from the free newspapers is what got me "online" and eventually I was able to PPP over WinSock to get my Windows 3.11 on to the REAL internet. I miss those times. Nothing like spending hours downloading a few early MP3s in 94-95, and having to play them back at 1/2 or 1/4 quality because the 486 couldn't keep up (and even then running out of cache 60-70 seconds in and paused for it catch back up).
- kingcharles 5y ago
  > Nothing like spending hours downloading a few early MP3s in 94-95, and having to play them back at 1/2 or 1/4 quality because the 486 couldn't keep up (and even then running out of cache 60-70 seconds in and paused for it catch back up). LOL. I used to have to decompress them into 40MB WAV files to play them. My whole hard drive was 50MB.
- justsomehnguy 5y ago
  Am486DX4/100 couldn't run 44k/Stereo, but at 22k it would play it in a ... single mode (Win9x with WinAmp) and at 11k you could even try to do something easy, like writing text in Notepad. Though I preferred to just play MIDIs and do my things.