Dialup

[Jack]

I miss my broadband connection :9:

[Keyser Soze]

welcome back to 1995

[Goatweed]

christ, you dont have broadband where you are now?

[Galt]

I didn't use the Internet for any given amount of time until '96

[Jack]

Assuming that Comcast isn't too busy to come and install it, I should be able to be online 24/7 again this week.

I called 2 fucking weeks ago to schedule a damn appointment. Fucking lazy assholes.

[Goatweed]

comcast is teh suck, good luck getting decent speeds with them.

[Jack]

Supposed to be 3Mbit down, 256k up.

Had good speeds at the old house which is only 2 blocks north of this one.

[Goatweed]

better knock on wood!!

[The Jays]

I didn't use the Internet for any given amount of time until '96

anyone who used the computer at home prior to 1997 was probably a dork, loser, virgin, or all three

[Jack]

I think I got my first home PC in 1997. Before that I would use the schools.

[HedCold]

i had a computer in 93, was using aol in 95/96. aol only gave you like 500 minutes a month before they started charging more

[Sir O]

I got my first computer around 89ish...a 286 with a 2400 bps modem. It was awesome.

[Keyser Soze]

i had a mighty mo 300 baud modem on my commodore 64 but i dont recall the year. the only online services those days were BBS, Compuserve soon after, then Prodigy, then AOL.

[Galt]

I didn't use the Internet for any given amount of time until '96

I didn't use it at home, I used it at college. I ignored it for the first two years of college, but then I heard you could plagerize a bunch of stuff and see naked chicks for free.

I didn't get a computer at my home until '00

[IrishAlkey]

2001

I win.

[Gooch]

anyone who used the computer at home prior to 1997 was probably a dork, loser, virgin, or all three

or needed them as part of their chosen profession.

[diceisgod]

or psuedoboard persona...

[Jack]

I got cable installed today.

There are only 2 bad things that came out of the experience.

#1.. The cable guy hit on me. I had to take 2 showers after he left to feel clean again. The worst part about it, is that he looked like the pictures I have seen of The Jays.

It all came about when he was filling out the paperwork. He had been really nice, put the cables exactly where I wanted them, and I asked him how much I owed. He looked down at the sheet and said there was no charge. Odd.... I was told that there would be a 40 dollar installation fee due on installation. Then after about 4 seconds of awkward silence that seemed like 5 minutes, he goes "How about dinner and a movie"..

I kinda laughed it off and I could tell he knew I was rejecting him. I signed my name, he left and I showered twice. I never felt so dirty.

#2 is not so bad. I have to run cat 5 from where the modem and router are, all the way up to where my computer is now so that I can have a good connection. I am using a wireless B card but it is just way to slow and unreliable for me. I need hard wired.

Wireless just isn't quite fast enough for me yet.

[Gooch]

or psuedoboard persona...

Pseudo



Hick

[Goatweed]

so where are you goin' to dinner with him?