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I 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 upg
by sgarland 4mo ago
I 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 4mo 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 4mo 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 4mo 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 4mo agoin 2003?
- doublerabbit 4mo 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.