Who Has The Slowest Connection!

POSTED BY: RahlMaclaren
UPDATED: Sunday, June 27, 2010 17:45
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I remember back in the day when I first started out with the internet having a 9.6k modem...
Nothing talked about here comes close to how painful those days were. Of course there wasn't much to download back then but you could go make a cup of coffee whilst waiting for a web page to open.

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Originally posted by Calhoun:
I remember back in the day when I first started out with the internet having a 9.6k modem...
Nothing talked about here comes close to how painful those days were. Of course there wasn't much to download back then but you could go make a cup of coffee whilst waiting for a web page to open.

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Ahhh. Fond memories of waiting ages just to read a few lines of text. No WWW as we know it today. Just pages of coloured text, ascii art and ftp downloads.
And when your page arrived you'd drunk so much tea (or coffee) that you had to go pee.
Good times.

Not to derail the topic but I also remember when Star Wars: Dark Forces was the first game to require 8mb RAM to run. 8mb!!! You couldn't even switch on a PC these days with that piddly little amount.



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lwaves wrote:
Saturday, June 26, 2010 00:33

Not to derail the topic but I also remember when Star Wars: Dark Forces was the first game to require 8mb RAM to run. 8mb!!! You couldn't even switch on a PC these days with that piddly little amount.

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Yeah, yeah! I remember them days well. Dark Forces was awesome. Duke Nukem! Doom! Wolfenstein3D! Ah the memories..

My first PC was a 386 with 2MB ram and a 256k video card... or was it a 286... so long ago. All DOS driven too :)

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when I'm back home in almost rural NSW Australia my connection is so slow sometimes I give up...though from now on I'll be a bit more patient because it's not as slow as yours...though there have been times I've endured 2-3 days with no connection at all. Which is really annoying when I'm in the middle of assignments and need to do research etc...then I have to travel for an hour and a half (including wasted time at bus stops) by 2 buses to get to uni with my none too light lap top (I'm still kicking myself for not getting a smaller one that's easier to lug) along with all the other crap I feel the need to carry everytime I go anywhere... I'm gonna start a thread about how big a bag we carry around everyday and how much of the stuff in it is really necessary.

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Well, since I've been trying to answer this since yesterday, I'd say I win!

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Well, since I've been trying to answer this since yesterday, I'd say I win!

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Bwahahahaha!
Sorry, but that's just really bad in a funny way.
Maybe you should change the 'Kwick' part of your username.



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Yeah, but Slowo just doesn't have the same ring to it! :)

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*waits another two days for Kwicko's proof*

Anyhoo, I thought of something. (Dangerous, I know.)

My status box thing says it's connected at 36Kb/s, but really runs at 3.5Kbs. Is the 36k just the speed of modem? When I lived at Poplar Bluff my connection was 6Kb/s. It can't be my hardware, right?


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