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@alexolegimas that dial up modem sound tho--was gearing me up for smth incredible about to happen (most of time i used to get veery slow internet, downloading an mp3 in 5 mins was ultimate success in those days:)
6:08 AM · Jul 15, 2026@alexolegimas I thought this was the situation just in India, when internet started becoming a household thing. i still vividly remember burning CDs with Nero software. good times.
6:09 AM · Jul 15, 2026@huseynovecon Yes!!! Downloading mp3s of Mambo #5 on my parents giant, overheating desktop. I recently learned the reason for that sound and it's actually pretty fascinating.
6:10 AM · Jul 15, 2026@alexolegimas old school loading screens were peak: https://youtu.be/Ivj2eJeC2wM?t=178
6:52 AM · Jul 15, 2026View all
This past weekend I found myself talking to a few people about AOL CDs we'd get in the mail, and that to get on the internet you'd need to install AOL, make sure no one was talking on the phone, and then dial up that 56kbps modem (if you were lucky) to watch an image slowly load on your blinking screen. One person in the conversation, who will remain unnamed (jk it was @jasminewsun) said: Alex, I have no idea what any of those words mean. And that's when I aged 20 years in a second.
6:01 AM · Jul 15, 2026@alexolegimas @deredleritt3r You guys are babies, I was connecting to BBS's in the 1980s with my 300 baud modem https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1644
6:13 AM · Jul 15, 2026@boazbaraktcs @deredleritt3r I was still in Moldova back then and they absolutely did not have modems of any sort 😅
6:15 AM · Jul 15, 2026