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what do you miss about old school internet?

#81
TOOL460002 said:
Really? Well, im not making it up (nor discounting your experience), but I've had it that fast for years.
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You don't have a connection that does 2.4GBps or even 2.4Gbps down. At the absolute best, you have a 1Gbps NIC in your desktop, so that alone would be limiting you if you would be able to somehow saturate it.
Also, Comcast operates on DOCSIS v3.0, which has a hard MAX of 117.18Mb/s (14.65MB/s).
Also, even with SSDs, you can only get 200MB/s in theory. A couple of those in RAID0 might get you to 300MB/s in theory, with a very good RAID card behind them.
You're either lying, or just don't have a clue what you have for technology.

Go here: Speedtest.net - The Global Broadband Speed Test
Run the test
After it's done, click the "Share result" link, and paste the image here.
Here's mine, just as an example:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1242611420.png
 
#83
Someone mentioned Lycos, I totally remember that being THE search engine for everything lol

These following ones aren't really internet related but here goes...

Having to save my homework on 3 1/2 floppy disks, before flash drives, and then trekking to the local library to print it.

Also, playing Bugdom on the blue iMac G3 in elementary school. I so remember that hockey puck mouse :D
 
#84
powderfinger said:
I think you knew that when I said the internet started in the mid-late 90s, that I was referring to the time period where it became more mainstream, and families started using them in their homes.
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In other words, when it effectively ended, not started.

The only guys online back in the 80s were "nerds" like my cousin Roy sitting up in his attic
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Not true.

About the only people on the internet then were academics, industry people and other heavies. Smart people.

PSS-anytime you open something to the mainstream public, idiots will always enter the equation.
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And rapacious scammers.
 
#86
I re-ran my test. Looks like I am getting some fast speeds too...

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-Mike
 
#89
Ray Salamon said:
You don't have a connection that does 2.4GBps or even 2.4Gbps down. At the absolute best, you have a 1Gbps NIC in your desktop, so that alone would be limiting you if you would be able to somehow saturate it.
Also, Comcast operates on DOCSIS v3.0, which has a hard MAX of 117.18Mb/s (14.65MB/s).
Also, even with SSDs, you can only get 200MB/s in theory. A couple of those in RAID0 might get you to 300MB/s in theory, with a very good RAID card behind them.
You're either lying, or just don't have a clue what you have for technology.

Go here: Speedtest.net - The Global Broadband Speed Test
Run the test
After it's done, click the "Share result" link, and paste the image here.
Here's mine, just as an example:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1242611420.png
Click to expand...

Ah man... ok- so that was a massive, massive brain fart. Im going to blame this nostalgia thread and all the kb talk. I know the difference, but... wow... never mind me. I will be in the idiot corner. Carry on!
 
#91
I recall actually using unix commands to get my email and search for games to download. As well as waiting overnight for the downloads.

Honestly, I miss none of it. I'll take todays rich media content, easy to use tools and access speeds over 1994. Not nostalgic for it at all.

(edit: Actually I do miss software that actually worked out of the box, WITHOUT any net connection.)
 
#94
Bob Lee (QSC) said:
telnet

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I use telnet every day at work :)

But what I do miss is being able to browse the web without annoying ads, popups (not a problem thanks to noscript on firefox), viruses on every other page etc.

I first got on t3h int4rw3bs in 1992. Got the internet to my home in 1993 or 1994. I was so amazed with the whole deal. One of the first things that I did was to logon to IRC and ask where I could find a FAQ for Mortal Kombat for al the moves. I got an answer in seconds with a link and I was like woah...sweet!

I also miss old school html. I used to be good at creating homepages. Did it all old school way in notepad. Even created the graphics on my own. I lost interest when all the java crap and flash crap, cascading style sheets and whatnot came along. Now I could not create a passable homepage from scratch to save my life.

I also miss the dial-up noise. I remember what a huge jump it was when I upgraded to ISDN line. No more dial-up noise and it connected instantly. Even bigger jump when I went to 256kb adsl.
 
#95
Ívar Þórólfsson;10719709 said:
I also miss old school html. I used to be good at creating homepages. Did it all old school way in notepad. Even created the graphics on my own. I lost interest when all the java crap and flash crap, cascading style sheets and whatnot came along. Now I could not create a passable homepage from scratch to save my life.
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That's what I do for a living. I have immense respect for people who code a website and decide to ditch the styling altogether and just do a good markup of the content. What's a header, what's a list, etc. – browsers have default styles for that.

All of a sudden, the site is accessible! :p
 
#96
I first started going online via dial-up with a C-64 and a 300 baud modem. Does anyone remember Quantum Link? They were AOL before AOL existed.

As far as proper internet goes, I remember when ICQ was fun, when Yahoo chat rooms were creatable and usable by anyone, when CDNow was the place for music shopping online...
 

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