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AOHell didn't take any time to load, and no one was streaming music on 28.8.
by devin 3mo ago
AOHell didn't take any time to load, and no one was streaming music on 28.8.
- romanhn 3mo agoI was definitely listening to RealAudio radio stations over a 14.4 connection.
- sgarland 3mo agoI was gonna say, we absolutely had streaming music. Did it suck? Yes, but it was novel, so it was acceptable. I had a 33.6 connection that my ISP eventually upgraded to full 56K, which I discovered by noticing that the dial-up handshake sounded different. Man… I sound old.
- jamesbfb 3mo agoYou’ve unlocked a memory for me! I had that same experience when I heard a different series of squeals than normal only to realise the modem had negotiated something faster than 31.2!
- Ylpertnodi 3mo agoI turned my squeals off. Got a phone bill. Turned on the sqeals. Dialler.exe was calling the Seychelles. That was back in the days when my telecom let me off the bill (7* my monthly income at the time) because 'You have a virus".
- doublerabbit 3mo agoReminds me of a time that on the weekends my parents would drive to my grandads who had a computer. My grandad was a television screen writer and I had discovered Habbo Hotel, so win win. Of course hormones being all the rage at 17, I decided to look at porn and printed it out so I could show it around at school. What I had done was downloaded a premium rate dialler that ended costing him around £100 back in 2003. I had gone downstairs and forgotten to disconnect. He's passed now but sorry Grandad for the phone bill. I had never realised what I had done until many years later. Still, I was one of the cooler kids in school for having a HP DeskJet printed crumpled piece of paper of a naked lady.
- throawayonthe 3mo agoin 2003?
- doublerabbit 3mo agoYeah, I was 16. Dial-up was still primarily the internet, 512kb broadband in the UK didn't really hit until 2007/8. The best you had was 128k ISDN.
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- devin 3mo agoI'm taking the downvote in stride, but 14.4 and 28.8 RealAudio streaming seems like it lasted all of 3 months and then people had napster and were pulling 96k mp3s.
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- sgarland 3mo agoI had AudioGalaxy before Napster, and preferred higher bitrates (192 KBPS CBR, until VBR took off), but yes - RealAudio didn’t have that long of a lifetime in comparison.
- LeoPanthera 3mo agoI used to listen to Art Bell on the Coast to Coast RealAudio stream - from the UK! I think it was before "RealVideo" so it was still just "RealAudio" and not "RealPlayer". Or something like that.
- ErroneousBosh 3mo ago> no one was streaming music on 28.8. In 2000-ish I was streaming video on 28.8 - not very good video, but video nonetheless. Also, I'm pretty sure "28.8 Aphex Twin" was more a reference to this sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-DaFZgCcvA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-DaFZgCcvA