1995 thread?

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Look Jim, its this new Internet thing my son told me about!

>>58535203
Thats not Dial-up speed.

I had dial up when I was younger.

You have to remember that the internet wasn't as feature rich back then and files themselves (like images on webpages) where small in resolution and file size.

duke nukem was just shared with friends on floppy discs (it was only about 6-8 ), another example is dark reign demo which was released in ~1999 was only ~16 megs
Mp3s were a thing back then, but typically on dial up you needed 3-5 minutes of time PER megabyte, programs that let your stop/pause/resume downloads were popular back then.


Later when broadband was a thing (speeds still mostly measured in kilobytes) movies became popular to share and trade.
700mb DIVX rips is what I traded on IRC years before bittorrent was a thing.


How 'rich' the internet is with multimedia and services grew organically along side the increase in household connection speeds to the internet.

>>58535203
>hit up Runescape for a few hours each week
>play random flash games that my friends found
>binge browse Worth1000 close to the end of the month to use up whatever pitiful amount of data we have left
>keep in touch with the gf through email
>only play singleplayer games

Looking back on it, I miss how much of it was simple and innocent, before goddamn social media and globalists infested the web.

>>58536012
>runescape
>19995

unreliable testimony thread

>How did you survive
>How do you remember that you survived

year namedropping thread
muh 1993
muh 2000
muh 2007
muh 2010

"It was innocent because I was at the time and I guess I really didn't think about that because I didn't think at the time"

"at the time" bonus awarded, press CTRL+W to claim

150 posts of turbo nothing

things kinda suck today because they aren't like how I remember things 20 years ago which will always be good because I only remove the bad

>>58536110
spbp

>>58536070
>How did we survive in the time of Dial-up Internet?
I was stuck with dialup until 2006. Believe it.

>>58536269
suck my fucking dick you fucking retard

>>58536269
Special Pharmaceutical Benefits Program?

>>58535203

Still better than 1960s internet...

downloading metallica new shit on napster at 2.3kbps.

one song at a time, over the course of a couple days. Kinda impressive how the fuck I managed to fill 10 or 20gb of a music library on such speeds.

>>58536296
Fug, me too. I remember it taking a week to pirate Photoshop CS2.

tfw no cable internet service where i live

tfw 3g internet connection

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>>58535203
>How did we survive
We left the house and did stuff with people.

>>58535203
>1995
I had dial-up until 2011

>>58535486
>he copied that floppy

>>58537305
your music library was the effort resulting of several years back then.

I was just born!

>>58535203
It was not that bad. Websites were simpler.

I could stream audio with a 56k.

I had no problem downloaded game demos. usually 4-8 hours overnight.

>>58535203
>How did we survive in the time of Dial-up Internet /g/?

I really doubt the majority of /g/ was around at the time.

most people on /g/ will never know the joy of hearing your dad announce that we were getting a 2nd dedicated landline for internet use.

>>58537351
Ew

>>58535203
You could still game. I used to do 4 player Doom death matches, and Quake was fun when you matched up in Heat.net

It was just less graphically intensive and porn required some imagination. Groups were more tightly knit and overall it was a more welcoming, anonymous, fun place to be.

>tfw looking at hentai with your friends at the library pc

>>58537504
>porn required some imagination

there are pornsites up until today which are still almost exactly the same as they were back in 1995 you dolt. Some of them didn't even change the interface much.

Full 56kbps is actually fast considering how the web was built back then. Sites are bloated as fuck now.

The only bad thing about the 90s Internet was stumbling onto Russian sites that spam you with CP popups. The Internet back then had massive amounts of CP. Now it is indexed by Google and "safer" to use.

>>58537548
you know that you really liked that random bitch when you decided to live that 20 sec BJ clip downloading overnight.

>>58537578
Yeah Gmail now is definitely slower than my experience in the past with earthlink + Eudora

>>58537578
I know what you mean

Seems like every site requires a few megs of javascript libraries just to load.

Nigga, my dial is still up. I live so far out in the boonies that Bush is still president here. We didn't get phones until 2 years ago. Have you guys tried this AOL? It's amazing. I have to get offline. I'm out of hours for the month.

>download Metallica song
>takes 3 days
>listen to it
>It's a fucking remix
>get used to it
>listen to original
>prefer the remix

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>>58537642
>Download Metallica song
>Is actually a zip file
>Has CP in it

>download morrowind
>takes a week
>It's a .mds file
>rule it out as scam
Daemon tools lel

>>58535203
You enjoyed more what you downloaded.

>>58537642
haha yes

>>58535203
The cancer that was real media

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>>58537642
>download Metallica song in .exe format
>takes a week
>finally done
>it's BonziBuddy

>>58537844
Yup it's the paradox of choice. When people have more access / more options, they are ultimately less than happy than if their choices had been limited.

>>58537449
>It was not that bad. Websites were simpler.

Yeah I remember reading one of the super mario games was like 100kb total?

56k speeds are tolerable when web pages are like 2kb and only require 1 network request (nobody was using CDNs or 3rd party analytics)

Also because of monitor resolutions being e.g. 800x600, many gifs were like 20x20 resolution, so tiny file sizes

>>58538626
800x600 was goat

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>>58538553
BonziBUDDY
1999-2008
“My greatest dream is a world without jews.”

>>58535203
>And what would /g/ be like in 1995?

PNG FUCKING REEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>58535203
>Would we have a primitive Yahoo Geocities page with shitposting aplenty back then?

You'd have a newsgroup on Usenet in the alt* hierarchy. Like alt.2600. Or alt.fan.karl-malden.nose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWq4DWfrpu8

>>58538553
Hadn't realize Cortana was a thing even back then.