America Online was a internet service provider that connected via a phone line about 35 years ago. The noise in Dan's video is what you heard as it was connecting to the internet.
I remember the excitement of upgrading my US Robotics 9600 Baud modem to 14.4, the speed difference. Then to upgrade finally up to 56K, life was quick. If I can now save to buy a gig of memory and a hard drive over a 100meg.
You're incorrect. The sound at the end is it establishing a 56K (technically 52K) connection. If it was going to fail the connection then you would hear repeating tones as the modem tries to negotiate a lower baud rate with the remote modem before giving up.
and ^ why I'm getting an office ready in my camper, going to sit in the yard; read & scan old books, etc. Plenty of stuff to do without the internet. and I do think that would be the perfect way for them to self-implode from their own lack of creativity; let the enemy destroy themselves...
America Online was a internet service provider that connected via a phone line about 35 years ago. The noise in Dan's video is what you heard as it was connecting to the internet.
Ugh, I remember those. It was bad. You couldn't walk down the street without tripping over AOL trial floppies and/or CDs. They were everywhere. In cereal boxes, newspapers, your mailbox, etc.
Now for the fun. I was permabanned from AOL. Anyone remember the AOL Warez like AOHell Etc? What a blast from the past. Use to have so much fun punting, ghosting in the chat rooms, and being Steve Case Tos Advisor.
I used to have a blast with proggies. Got my first computer virus from one called AODoggPound. It played the song "another one bites the dust", which I thought was pretty cool until I realized it was talking about my computer. :/
I still have some of the 3.5" floppies that they originally mailed out for free. I also still have an old computer with a drive. It also has one of those old CD drives with a volume control and headphone jack on the front. I can easily go back in time with computers, even all the way back to my Timex-Sinclair that had the same processor as the TRS-80s from Radio Shack.
I still own all my 8", 5", and 3.5" floppies, as well as ZIP disks, CDs, Blu-rays, and old hard drives. The oldest hard drive I have that still works is from 1998. I have notebooks of printouts of web pages that no longer exist. Crap tons of data plus a whole library. I even have an engineering book that shows how to repair the old mechanical/electrical phone switching equipment. I wonder if any of that old hardware still exists.
Wow, maybe you should open a computer museum. I remember taking a class where you wire up metal panels sticking wires with jackplugs into holes in the panel. running keypunch cards through a sorter. I believe it had something to do with programming the first computers. Memory gets dim over time.
In my first college chemistry lab (Chapel Hill), we had to use a manual keypuncher to punch our lab results into IBM punch cards. It was like a hole puncher with a dial on it for the characters. Turn the dial, punch, move the card down, repeat. In astronomy class, we used an acoustic modem to dial in to the Research Triangle mainframe.
If I win the lottery, I'll open a museum, but it will have even more than the computer stuff. There will be audio stuff, old books, toys I got in the early 50s, and much more.
I have a rich cousin whose house is a museum of sorts. He actually has the same duplicate of the time machine that was used in an episode of "Big Bang Theory." It has signatures of the actors on it. I haven't been to his mansion since he bought that, as well as the robot from "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and "Lost in Space." That last one is signed by Bill Mumy, Will Robinson. I have a picture of him signing it.
You're old enough to remember Kevin Mitnick as well as the fun that could be had with phone phreaking. Great fun back then, still have my blue box somewhere. I tossed most of my old computer crap few years back, still have some though, like my old 386 gateway that I paid way too much.
I never had any of the "boxes," but I read about Captain Crunch when I was in college in the early 70s. He could whistle the codes after dialing an 800 number to cut off the other end of the call without dropping the toll free line.
I have a whole set of Phrak magazines printed out in my files. I also have 2600 over many years. I have all the old subversive texts in my files, such as "The Anarchist Cookbook." I know better than to try any of their "recipes." I took organic chemistry in college, and they look sketchy to me.
America Online. Perhaps related to some sort of white-hat system ready for the election?
America Online was a internet service provider that connected via a phone line about 35 years ago. The noise in Dan's video is what you heard as it was connecting to the internet.
A sad sound those of us from the dial-up days will never forget.
I remember the excitement of upgrading my US Robotics 9600 Baud modem to 14.4, the speed difference. Then to upgrade finally up to 56K, life was quick. If I can now save to buy a gig of memory and a hard drive over a 100meg.
yep was getting nervous just listening to it! was hard to complete homework with sketchy internet, I remember those days too well🐸
You're incorrect. The sound at the end is it establishing a 56K (technically 52K) connection. If it was going to fail the connection then you would hear repeating tones as the modem tries to negotiate a lower baud rate with the remote modem before giving up.
That's what u picked up on. I heard that alot back on the day.
For a few years now I have said that many people will totally lose it when their smart phones go dead. TOTALLY lose it.
Talk about "suicide weekend". People are going to lose it.
and ^ why I'm getting an office ready in my camper, going to sit in the yard; read & scan old books, etc. Plenty of stuff to do without the internet. and I do think that would be the perfect way for them to self-implode from their own lack of creativity; let the enemy destroy themselves...
Crap I feel old now
The number 14400 Will always have a special place in my heart
I was using it until 29 years ago and my town got an internet provider. I was user number 39 on that system.
Cool man, now I feel less old! Thanks
I know that noise well. LOL
I am aware of this. I use to use AOL since I could get free trial CDs at the bus stops.
Ugh, I remember those. It was bad. You couldn't walk down the street without tripping over AOL trial floppies and/or CDs. They were everywhere. In cereal boxes, newspapers, your mailbox, etc.
They were amazing to me, I was very poor, I didnt own a PC but i knew someone who did, and I would give them the CDs so we could get online.
This is one of the best comments on this thread. Love it. ❤️
Now for the fun. I was permabanned from AOL. Anyone remember the AOL Warez like AOHell Etc? What a blast from the past. Use to have so much fun punting, ghosting in the chat rooms, and being Steve Case Tos Advisor.
I used to have a blast with proggies. Got my first computer virus from one called AODoggPound. It played the song "another one bites the dust", which I thought was pretty cool until I realized it was talking about my computer. :/
I still have some of the 3.5" floppies that they originally mailed out for free. I also still have an old computer with a drive. It also has one of those old CD drives with a volume control and headphone jack on the front. I can easily go back in time with computers, even all the way back to my Timex-Sinclair that had the same processor as the TRS-80s from Radio Shack.
Thnx for making me feel oĺd
Lol, you and I both.
A/s/l ?
I still own all my 8", 5", and 3.5" floppies, as well as ZIP disks, CDs, Blu-rays, and old hard drives. The oldest hard drive I have that still works is from 1998. I have notebooks of printouts of web pages that no longer exist. Crap tons of data plus a whole library. I even have an engineering book that shows how to repair the old mechanical/electrical phone switching equipment. I wonder if any of that old hardware still exists.
Wow, maybe you should open a computer museum. I remember taking a class where you wire up metal panels sticking wires with jackplugs into holes in the panel. running keypunch cards through a sorter. I believe it had something to do with programming the first computers. Memory gets dim over time.
In my first college chemistry lab (Chapel Hill), we had to use a manual keypuncher to punch our lab results into IBM punch cards. It was like a hole puncher with a dial on it for the characters. Turn the dial, punch, move the card down, repeat. In astronomy class, we used an acoustic modem to dial in to the Research Triangle mainframe.
If I win the lottery, I'll open a museum, but it will have even more than the computer stuff. There will be audio stuff, old books, toys I got in the early 50s, and much more.
I have a rich cousin whose house is a museum of sorts. He actually has the same duplicate of the time machine that was used in an episode of "Big Bang Theory." It has signatures of the actors on it. I haven't been to his mansion since he bought that, as well as the robot from "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and "Lost in Space." That last one is signed by Bill Mumy, Will Robinson. I have a picture of him signing it.
You're old enough to remember Kevin Mitnick as well as the fun that could be had with phone phreaking. Great fun back then, still have my blue box somewhere. I tossed most of my old computer crap few years back, still have some though, like my old 386 gateway that I paid way too much.
I never had any of the "boxes," but I read about Captain Crunch when I was in college in the early 70s. He could whistle the codes after dialing an 800 number to cut off the other end of the call without dropping the toll free line.
I have a whole set of Phrak magazines printed out in my files. I also have 2600 over many years. I have all the old subversive texts in my files, such as "The Anarchist Cookbook." I know better than to try any of their "recipes." I took organic chemistry in college, and they look sketchy to me.
Oh that’s better!