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From: Chris Ridd on 18 Apr 2010 15:11 On 2010-04-18 20:08:20 +0100, Peter Ceresole said: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > >>> And, of course, there's still dialup. I'm back on the wet string for ten >>> days, and although it's *decent* wet string, as out here I'm using a USR >>> Courier than which there is no better dialup modem, it's still madness >>> to try Usenet (or mail) on line. >> >> Why? 10 years ago that is what everyone was using, and it worked fine! > > Only according to a very, very restrictive definition of 'fine'. I don't remember people posting DVD rips when there was just dial-up. -- Chris
From: Ben Shimmin on 18 Apr 2010 15:29 Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com>: > On 2010-04-18 20:08:20 +0100, Peter Ceresole said: >> Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: >>> Why? 10 years ago that is what everyone was using, and it worked fine! >> >> Only according to a very, very restrictive definition of 'fine'. > > I don't remember people posting DVD rips when there was just dial-up. I (dimly) remember spending *hours* downloading Netscape Communicator 4, which was something ridiculous like 15MB. b. -- <bas(a)bas.me.uk> <URL:http://bas.me.uk/> `Zombies are defined by behavior and can be "explained" by many handy shortcuts: the supernatural, radiation, a virus, space visitors, secret weapons, a Harvard education and so on.' -- Roger Ebert
From: Chris Ridd on 18 Apr 2010 15:33 On 2010-04-18 20:29:19 +0100, Ben Shimmin said: > Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com>: >> On 2010-04-18 20:08:20 +0100, Peter Ceresole said: >>> Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: >>>> Why? 10 years ago that is what everyone was using, and it worked fine! >>> >>> Only according to a very, very restrictive definition of 'fine'. >> >> I don't remember people posting DVD rips when there was just dial-up. > > I (dimly) remember spending *hours* downloading Netscape Communicator 4, > which was something ridiculous like 15MB. Noob :-) I remember when Netscape got /slightly/ too big to fit on a floppy and wondering if they'd ruined it. -- Chris
From: Ben Shimmin on 18 Apr 2010 15:47 Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com>: > On 2010-04-18 20:29:19 +0100, Ben Shimmin said: >> Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com>: >>> On 2010-04-18 20:08:20 +0100, Peter Ceresole said: >>>> Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: >>>>> Why? 10 years ago that is what everyone was using, and it worked fine! >>>> >>>> Only according to a very, very restrictive definition of 'fine'. >>> >>> I don't remember people posting DVD rips when there was just dial-up. >> >> I (dimly) remember spending *hours* downloading Netscape Communicator 4, >> which was something ridiculous like 15MB. > > Noob :-) I remember when Netscape got /slightly/ too big to fit on a > floppy and wondering if they'd ruined it. Ha, yeah, I remember older versions too -- Communicator 4 just stuck in my mind as one of my first memories of dialup taking absolutely forever to download something (whereas for mail, netnews, or telnet, it was merely a little slow from time to time, but generally bearable). b. -- <bas(a)bas.me.uk> <URL:http://bas.me.uk/> `Zombies are defined by behavior and can be "explained" by many handy shortcuts: the supernatural, radiation, a virus, space visitors, secret weapons, a Harvard education and so on.' -- Roger Ebert
From: Peter Ceresole on 18 Apr 2010 15:56
Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote: > Ha, yeah, I remember older versions too -- Communicator 4 just stuck in > my mind as one of my first memories of dialup taking absolutely forever > to download something (whereas for mail, netnews, or telnet, it was merely > a little slow from time to time, but generally bearable). Yup. And that's the essence of it. When almost all of what I did was text (email and News, principally) and I knew no better, then it was perfectly bearable. In fact Fidonet at 1200/75 or even (gasp) 2500/2500 was rilly exciting- I mean rilly RILLY. But somehow things have moved on... As they do. -- Peter |