kersplooshMA to Engineering · edit-22 years agoThe sound of a dialup modem, picturedimagemessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up135arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
arrow-up135arrow-down1imageThe sound of a dialup modem, picturedkersplooshMA to Engineering · edit-22 years agomessage-square4fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
minus-squareshitasslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agoAs someone too young to really have used dialup this is really cool! Curious if 4800 bps was fast at the time?
minus-squarekersplooshOPMAlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 years ago4800 bits/s was fast when it came out in the 1980’s, but it was quickly obsolete. I remember getting a 28.8 kbit/s modem in the mid-90’s and thinking it was hot stuff.
minus-squarePootlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoHell bud, we got it up to 56 kb per second. Internet porn was mainly pictures at that time.
As someone too young to really have used dialup this is really cool! Curious if 4800 bps was fast at the time?
4800 bits/s was fast when it came out in the 1980’s, but it was quickly obsolete. I remember getting a 28.8 kbit/s modem in the mid-90’s and thinking it was hot stuff.
Hell bud, we got it up to 56 kb per second. Internet porn was mainly pictures at that time.