How Long

"Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection" (itsalwayssteve) 06/20/2016 at 13:55 • Filed to: fuck your mustache

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How long until the hipsters give up their high-speed internet for 56k for a “More authentic and pure internet experience, bro.”

It’s only a matter of time until some jackass builds an app that converts instagram photos into ASCII art and slows LTE and WiFi down to 56k speeds. On purpose.

Some things are obsolete because they deserve to be, assholes.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection 06/20/2016 at 14:01

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56k is too mainstream. It’ll be 14.4k.

Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection 06/20/2016 at 14:08

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Rebuilt 56k modem with new internals. People would buy that.

Wacko > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 06/20/2016 at 14:09

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crap i remember BBSs and 9600k

then i remember thinking 14.4 is fast, then 28.8 then 56k.....

Chinny Raccoon > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection 06/20/2016 at 14:09

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There is something to be said for testing on low bandwidth connections, not everyone has the fat pipes that exist in developers’s offices. Looking at you Google Maps.

yitznewton > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection 06/20/2016 at 14:12

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With vacuum tubes. But what if the modem ends up running on Voice over IP?

yitznewton > Wacko 06/20/2016 at 14:13

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Prodigy on 14.4 yo

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection 06/20/2016 at 14:14

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If our Corporate Internet Overlords had their way, we’d still be using that equipment. Their entire argument against the FCC changing ‘broadband’ speeds to 25Mbps was that 4 was fast enough. Greedy mutherfuckers.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection 06/20/2016 at 14:27

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My 1983 TRS-80 Model 100 laptop had a 300 baud modem built into it. That’s right, 300 baud. 0.3k. You could also hook it up to acoustic couplers that would attach to the handset of a pay phone so you could transfer that important news article you just wrote to the head office about “Why buy a Chrysler K-car when this blender-powered Model T is the same price?”

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 06/20/2016 at 14:27

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14.4k? Well look who’s Mr. Speeddemon...

2400 baud FTW!!!

Mattbob > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection 06/20/2016 at 14:35

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Photos to ASCII art? ask and you shall receive. http://picascii.com/

Sam > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection 06/20/2016 at 14:37

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I only use a rotary dial phone, because I’m a purist and need to be physically involved in the act of driving.

With-a-G is back to not having anything written after his username > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly 06/20/2016 at 15:15

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I’ll slot myself into the list right here at 2400. Any more old timers takin’ it all the way back to 1200 and 300 bps, feel free to post after me.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch 06/20/2016 at 15:50

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I’ve checked the dimensions, and a 2.5" SSD *will* fit inside an eight track cartridge. I fully intend to build an eight track hot-swap at some point.

TooLazyToNotBurner > With-a-G is back to not having anything written after his username 06/20/2016 at 15:52

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First modem I used was on a C64 to hit up local bbs at 300 baud. Cutting edge for sure.

Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 06/20/2016 at 15:53

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I’ve seen N64 cartridges turned into external hard-drives.

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection 06/20/2016 at 17:03

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The dial tone sound of connecting to the internet is just as important as exhaust noise on a sports car after all.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > With-a-G is back to not having anything written after his username 06/20/2016 at 17:23

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Actually that’s not the slowest. My earliest modem memories was with a 1200 baud modem used with an Atari 1040ST.

ranwhenparked > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection 06/20/2016 at 22:27

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Are we sure some of them aren’t doing it already?

coqui70 > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection 06/20/2016 at 23:27

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Screw them hipsters! I’m loving my fiber-to-the-house gigabit service that actually pushes almost that fast (have seen 900 mbps). However the rebirth of BBS isn’t all that bad - only hardcore techies will maintain text-only flame wars and make ascii art memes.