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In other news, Blockbuster has cancelled all late fess and will no longer charge extra for rewinding the tape. 

AOL chat rooms...The Shag's( and OnlyFans) ancestors.

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Early in my career I had a higher-end Nokia phone you could connect (with the right adapter) to the phone port on a laptop.  Dial in to your ISP and bam.  Wireless internet.  Wonderous times.

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She's light brown with big thighs, and standing five foot seven tall
If she don't call me it's okay, I'll hit up SexyEyez02
Sophomore at TSU, and she run track, that's what it do
I'll send a note to my girl Crystal, she ShootiNStarr99

 

1 hour ago, Iceman said:

AOL chat rooms...The Shag's( and OnlyFans) ancestors.

I put on my robe and wizard hat

My personal memory was Prodigy.  Got a new Packard Bell computer for law school in 1992.  In the package of materials was a CD Rom like this:

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I distinctly remember reading the booklet that came with it, explaining what it was for, and I actually said out loud to myself as I tossed it all in the trash, "Internet?  Sounds like a scam."

I was either an idiot or a genius in that moment.  Most likely a healthy serving of both.  Took me a couple more years before I figured out this "email" thing that was on offer.

On 8/12/2025 at 9:38 AM, Brisketexan said:

My personal memory was Prodigy.  Got a new Packard Bell computer for law school in 1992.   "Internet?  Sounds like a scam."

I was either an idiot or a genius in that moment.  Most likely a healthy serving of both.  Took me a couple more years before I figured out this "email" thing that was on offer.

 

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My first wife's parents were 100% convinced AOL was "the internet" & not merely a portal TO the web.

I brought a compudyne 386 with me to undergrad in 1997. After a year on my own, I realized that a cell phone was better than a land line and not much more expensive so I picked up a shiny new sprint pcs account and it’s half flip phone. 

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My first credit card hacking experience saw that ahole charge $300 of compuserve to my cc.

I remember AOL dial up. I've been in technology since the early 90's, and in those days, we were selling customers T1's (only 1.5Mbps) for $2000 per month. Now you can get a gig connection for under $1000. 

I remember in college mid 90s that you could go make a pot of coffee while waiting for the dial up to get online.

Hook’em!!!

9 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

I brought a compudyne 386 with me to undergrad in 1997. After a year on my own, I realized that a cell phone was better than a land line and not much more expensive so I picked up a shiny new sprint pcs account and it’s half flip phone. 

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Yeah. It was a hand me down. 
 

in high school, we were taught basic computer literacy using HyperCard, lotus 1-2-3, and ClarisWorks.

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I used Internet America for my first isp. They were Texas based. Think I was rocking a 14.4 connection. When I got 28.8 it was amazeballs.

If you were ever at a business convention in a hotel then you never gave up the analog line if possible.  Took so many tries to get a free line that you tried to stay connected for the entire convention if possible. 

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The OG one-handed typing tutor!

Like you weren't busy looking for the best ASCII erotica...

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1 hour ago, Longhornstampede said:

hands swerk GIF OG one-handed typing tutor!

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1 hour ago, Surly Bevo said:

Chalk this up as another thing I thought died years ago. 

According to Rocket Money, you're now down to 16 monthly subscriptions.

ahhhhhhh the days when the internet was new and Rush was writing incredibly stupid lyrics about it

riff still slams tho

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17 hours ago, Woodrow Call said:

I remember AOL dial up. I've been in technology since the early 90's, and in those days, we were selling customers T1's (only 1.5Mbps) for $2000 per month. Now you can get a gig connection for under $1000. 


You can get an eight gig per second connection for 150 dollars. 

6 Trs-80's were in our computer room in the school library. That shit was like working with a hammer and chisel. 

On 8/12/2025 at 6:48 AM, Mother mopar said:

Wonder if that cuts down on the board traffic. 

Definitely. @Armybrat has to go to the library to post now. 

33 minutes ago, Iceman said:

6 Radio Shack Trash 80's is were in our computer room 

In HS, I couldn't get into the computer classes because you had to be good @ nath (algebra, trig etc) & I'm still not proficient.

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On 8/18/2025 at 1:22 AM, Hornius Emeritus said:


You can get an eight gig per second connection for 150 dollars. 

Not a bi-directional pipe dedicated fiber. You can get a consumer grade, switched connection for less. 

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