Comcastify: The Onion is now releasing JavaScript code as satire

[Eug]

http://theonion.github.io/comcastifyjs/

With all this internet going around, sometimes you just want to experience the thrill of a long page load. Give your users the chance to enjoy a little slice of the future by slow loading your website's images with ComcastifyJS!

Gotta give them credit for being creative.

Example:

http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/12/6...a-script-that-makes-images-load-like-its-1995

And yes you young-uns, back in the old days this was actually the norm. Ugh.

 

[uclaLabrat]

That is some delicious trolling

 

[master_shake_]

I miss the old day of dithering.

When the internet was slow but equal.

 

[clamum]

Oh lawdy. I remember when we first got cable, we got about 15 kb/sec and it was glorious.

 

[Zodiark1593]

For April 1st, how about we grab a stack of old AOL cds, and stuff them into every mailbox we can find?

 

[brianmanahan]

beautiful! reminds me of my 2400 bps connection to AOL

(though i suspect it was much slower than that)

 

[MongGrel]

Hell, I remember beta testing EverCrack and having to leave the dld up all day at work just to play the next nite and it might have not been finished then.

God, I do sound ancient these days

 

[MongGrel]

beautiful! reminds me of my 2400 bps connection to AOL

(though i suspect it was much slower than that)

I seem to remember 800, I know once upon a time 14.4 was cutting edge he he.

:biggrin:

 

[MongGrel]

For April 1st, how about we grab a stack of old AOL cds, and stuff them into every mailbox we can find?

:awe:

 

[zanejohnson]

remember playing command and conquer, and Generals eventually, over dial up......as in, you dial up another pots modem with your modem?

 

[brianmanahan]

Sản phẩm này mình cũng có dùng qua 1 lần thấy rất tốt. có gì mình sẽ liên hệ mua 1 món nữa. ngày mai, nay chủ nhật chắc công ty abn5 nghỉ rùi hj

this guy must be getting static on his dialup

 

[Red Squirrel]

Haha that's great.

I remember when we went from dialup to ADSL 1mbps service. It was incredible. Then ADSL got kinda meh and the upload was especially a big bottleneck when doing offsite backups and even doing backups of my online server to my home server was bloody slow. 8/1 at that point. Then last summer we got FTTH 50/30. Literally like 1000 times faster than dialup.

Funny thing is we still use lot of 1200 baud connections at work for certain pieces of equipment. You can type faster than the characters can be sent to the end point.

 

[Red Squirrel]

this guy must be getting static on his dialup

:biggrin:

Or someone keeps trying to pickup the phone.

"Stop that!"

 

[zanejohnson]

oh god the dreaded phone pickup


and if you were the one picking it up "sqawwwwaaaaaakkkkkkkkkkkkkkkwwakkk"

 

[Printer Bandit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0

 

[BoomerD]

For April 1st, how about we grab a stack of old AOL floppies, and stuff them into every mailbox we can find?

Fixed for ancientness...:whiste:

 

[BoomerD]

Sản phẩm này mình cũng có dùng qua 1 lần thấy rất tốt. có gì mình sẽ liên hệ mua 1 món nữa. ngày mai, nay chủ nhật chắc công ty abn5 nghỉ rùi hj

BoomerD is locked and loaded...and ready for battle.

 

[zerocool84]

Leaving your computer on all night to download MP3's, those were not the good ol days.

 

[Zodiark1593]

Leaving your computer on all night to download MP3's, those were not the good ol days.

God forbig you needed to download yet another new version of iTunes at 70 MB. That was horrible.

 

[tcsenter]

It's missing the stuttery mouse pointer, the cooling fan ramp-up, the unresponsiveness of other tasks, and ultimately, that "This script has stopped responding" error notice.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Leaving your computer on all night to download MP3's, those were not the good ol days.

Haha I remember downloading a big program (at the time, basically 650MB or so) with Kazaa (or it was maybe Morpheus at the time, I forget). Since I could not tie up the phone line for that long as parents wanted to use the phone and stuff, every time I did go online I'd unpause it, then pause it back. Took like a month. Was surprised when it was not corrupted. I also had it setup to automatically dial up at certain intervals at night to resume. Unlimited dialup was also a big luxery most people could not afford, so I had to be careful how long I was on.

I sure don't miss those days lol.

 

[sdifox]

Shut up grasshoppers. I was downloading floppies from bbs at a top speed of 192cps. That's characters per second.

 

[Thebobo]

Hell, I remember beta testing EverCrack and having to leave the dld up all day at work just to play the next nite and it might have not been finished then.

God, I do sound ancient these days

What server you end up on?

Played EQ on dial up for a couple years

 

[HamburgerBoy]

BoomerD is locked and loaded...and ready for battle.

But is your body ready? When's the last time you've raped a citizen of another country?

 

[purbeast0]

i remember waiting like 10 minutes for a tit shot of jenny mccarthy (and many other celebs) to load just like that back on AOL trial disks.