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They

  • Were better days, better days, better days....

  • Were the worst of times. F dialup.

  • Have internet on computers now?

  • Are still yelling "I'M USING THE PHONE!!1!!!!1!!!"


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Coco Loco

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"Get off the internet, I need to use the phone"


Ahh the memories :mjcry:
 

Complexion

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Its crazy how common that experience was back then.

Your folks picking up the phone to a whole load of noise as your 5kbps download while hitting up the chatroom fell to zero.
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F*ckthemkids

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TFW you were doing something and some a$$hole decided they just had to call your house at that moment. Selfish fukks.:pacspit:
 

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Seeing it visually just makes the whole digital seduction thing make so much sense:



0:00 Dial Tone (higher (leftmost) values are the receiving modem, lower are sending modem)

0:07 "Hello, I am a modem. Are you?" "Yes - I am <this type>" "Okay then let's use something beyond these basic tones" ”sure"

0:11 this tone turnd off echo suppression, which could corrupt data "I'm going to say 6 times what rate and power I can accomplish" "Okay, I will say three times what rate I can. And we'll see what match up"

0:14 "Let's test the line, and switch into full data mode" "Sounds good, I will demonstrate a random max data flow to show capacity." The click at the end is the signal to switch to full data mode

0:16 "I CAN SCREAM THIS LOUD, AND IT SOUNDS LIKE THIS" "I CAN SCREAM THIS LOUD MYSELF, AND IT SOUNDS LIKE THIS" (now they can scream together and simultaneously know what eachother sounds like)

0:23 that very small spike/click is when you stop hearing it. That's what the click would signal Both: Authentication complete. Full data floodgates opening Both: Screaming but they can now understand the other as they scream.

0:24
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Quite literally a digital mating routine.
 
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