Do people still use AOL anymore? They are the worst ISP, IMO.
are you sure that the first part is from 93? there is no GUI on the computers, and I know windows 3.11 and AOL 1.1 (which had a GUI) was around at that time.
Haha...I remember the AOL floppy disk sent in the mail that said 15 hours free. We just bought the lightning fast 386 and sat there in wonderment as the internet dialed out slowly, then the digital tone and static, then the long wait for the handshake, upload-download, etc.. We possessed the same awe as our forefathers that travelled miles to see their first factory and saw the billowing smokestack dirtying their drying laundry as a source of great pride.
I was listening to Rush and wished I could access Compuserve but didn't know the address (duh?) so I chatted in the AOL rooms.
Good memories! Thanks.
I also recall playing the old shareware Duke Nukem and Commander Keen.
My first computer in 1994 was a Packard Bell with 4 mg ram and 300 mg hard drive, and a 3600 baud modem. I think my first ISP provider then was Prodigy. Went straight to the games, then to the porn section. LOL.
But even before that, like 2 or 3 years earlier, there was some service that sold a dial up connection and if you didn't have a PC, gave you a monochrome terminal with a keyboard. It was like $16.95 a month, maybe the service was GEnie or something, I can't remember. It had all kinds of stuff but took forever to download even minimal data, so it must have been a 300 baud modem. Gave it back after a month.
Any MSTies remember this skit?
Mike: You might wanna be careful, hi everybody, welcome to the Satellite of Love! You're just in time to see ol' Crow here log onto the Information Superhighway! Why don't you tell us about your system there, Crow?
Crow: Oh, you know. It's just a multimedia package, nothing special. A 90 mHz. Pentium with 32 megs of RAM and a quadruple speed NEC CD-ROM, Soundblaster 16 multi-CD sound card, I threw that in... And a Courier v.24 38 Kbaud modem.
Servo: And you think that'll make you happy, huh?
Crow: Yeah! Accessing SLIP server... Entering my IP address... Okay... Crow@biteme.com... Hahaha... And... ENTER!
Servo: Huh? "Server timed out, try again"?
Crow: Oh. I can read, thank you! Must've typed the wrong parameters...
Mike: But soon, you will be merging onto the Information...
Crow: That's right, Mike! I'll be pulling out into the Information Superhighway... and... uh... traffic... well, uh...
Mike: Looks like it locked up, huh?
Servo: "Looking for UART at FX1050"? What does that mean?
Crow: I DON'T KNOW!!! I must've configured my com ports incorrectly. You know, I'll just assign my modem to a different com port and get back into my SLIP server and... uh...
Servo: Woah!
Mike: Locked up tight!
Servo: "Looking for UART at FX1050."
Crow: I CAN READ!!! Don't you think I can read?!
Servo: Gee, sorry!
Crow: Alright! Okay... I'll try this... "LET ME ON THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY YOU STUPID LITTLE..."
Servo: "Still looking for UART at FX1050."
Crow: LET ME ON THE INFORMATION SUPER HIGHWAY!!! I WANT ON THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY!!!
Mike: We'll be right back! Careful with that! Calm down! Calm down!
"The Internet is for Porn
The INternet is for Porn..."
Great, now that song will be going through my head...
The first computer we had was an IBM PCjr. All those DOS commands, that brings back memories.
We used to sit around and play King's Quest all the time. You had to actually write out what you wanted to do in command lines, and the little dude was made up of like twelve pixels.
Funny.
1-800-Be-A-Geek
I remember the terms "internet" and "information super highway" being used ala VHS vs Beta. I'm guessing "internet" won out because Algore invented that one.
I remember the terms "internet" and "information super highway" being used ala VHS vs Beta. I'm guessing "internet" won out because Algore invented that one.