This, Kids,

"Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura" (sundowne36) 08/06/2013 at 12:33 • Filed to: Internet

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Is how we had to connect to the net back then.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 08/06/2013 at 12:36

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Gads, the wait in the "connecting" phase. So true.

crown victor victoria > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 08/06/2013 at 12:36

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They will never know these soothing sounds

Agrajag > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 08/06/2013 at 12:39

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"GET OFF THE INTERNET I NEED TO USE THE PHONE!"

"But Mooooommm."

Decay buys too many beaters > crown victor victoria 08/06/2013 at 12:40

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Or the joys of picking up the phone in a house with one phone line, while someone is using the internet.

Hermann > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 08/06/2013 at 12:40

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WHO THE FUCK PICKED UP THE PHONE? I WAS DOWNLOADING A WALLPAPER OF THE NEW CORVETTE

PRBot II > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 08/06/2013 at 12:40

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Can you do that later? I'm waiting for a call.

Saracen > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 08/06/2013 at 12:40

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I so don't miss those days at all.

Mosqvich > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 08/06/2013 at 12:41

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Ah I remember going from 300 baud to 1200 to a scorching 9600 and finally a blistering 14.4 baud modem. It took all that power to keep my BBS up and running!

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 08/06/2013 at 12:41

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This is how I connected...

Gamecat235 > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 08/06/2013 at 12:41

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And before AOL... there were BBSs.

sliding-sideways > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 08/06/2013 at 12:43

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I remember getting a bunch of those AOL trial discs that would give you 100 hours of AOL for free. Those were simpler times.

Frank Grimes > crown victor victoria 08/06/2013 at 12:44

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The sounds were amazing!

Victorious Secret > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 08/06/2013 at 12:49

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Right in the childhood

crown victor victoria > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs 08/06/2013 at 12:53

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Prodigy Online 4 lyfe!

Anybody remember this game?

I was obsessed. It probably cost my parents $500 for me to sit there and wait for those cheesy bitmaps to load one line at a time.

That game has gotta be recreated somewhere....BRB jumping down the intertubes

crown victor victoria > crown victor victoria 08/06/2013 at 12:56

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HOLY FUCKSWORD, IT EXISTS

http://www.vintagecomputing.com/madmaze/

It only works in IE but IT IS HERE IN ALL ITS GLORY FOR FREEEEEE!!!

Party-vi > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 08/06/2013 at 12:57

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LOL @ OLD PEOPLE

Huh...can't figure out how to post this from my iPhone...

crown victor victoria > crown victor victoria 08/06/2013 at 12:59

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BEST DAY EVAR

Rainbow > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 08/06/2013 at 13:01

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Mazarin > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 08/06/2013 at 13:01

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And FUCK ALL if the line your computer was calling was busy.

crown victor victoria > sliding-sideways 08/06/2013 at 13:11

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Believe it or not, they still support that install app. They don't distribute the discs anymore but there's instructions on how to burn your own in their help pages

http://help.aol.com/help/microsite…

In other news, JEEBUS YOU GOT PROBLEMS IF YOU NEED THIS FOR ANYTHING

crown victor victoria > Party-vi 08/06/2013 at 13:12

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YOU DAMN KIDS come here and help me with this

crown victor victoria > Decay buys too many beaters 08/06/2013 at 13:13

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ncasolowork2 > Decay buys too many beaters 08/06/2013 at 13:20

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That always incited rage because that would frequently boot me off the internet.

punksmurph > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 08/06/2013 at 13:29

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I started working at 16, by 17 I was helping pay for DSL internet when Verizon first offered it to us. It was the best $150 a month for 768KB ever.

Decay buys too many beaters > ncasolowork2 08/06/2013 at 13:32

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Yes, that always got in the way of me playing Starcraft when I was a child.

ncasolowork2 > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 08/06/2013 at 13:34

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Library offered a freenet service. 30 minutes per day. Somehow we managed to get 2 accounts. I figured out that if I disconnected after 29 minutes i could dial in and get another 30 minutes it wouldn't actually disconnect me after 1 more minute. This allowed me to get 2 hours a day. I frequented a Sci-Fi MUD that basically ruined my computer programming class because I figured out how to telnet in from school.

Bonus points to anyone who has ever used telnet.

promoted by the color red > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 08/06/2013 at 14:03

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I used that well into 2005...and my family lived in a DSL area.

William Byrd > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 08/06/2013 at 16:56

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Anyone got any extra CDs? I'm almost out of time.