Let's love the '90s

[lupi]

After first look through only 2 of the images I couldn't place, and one looked to be a still from a romantic dramady type film so could probably get that with a short search. Think the most difficult ones would be the couple images from music videos as you either saw it or not, no real lasting pop culture with those to help them become more widely known.



http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/01/showbiz/gallery/90s-nostalgia-photos/index.html

 

[Newbian]

Dial up ftw... oh wait the nightmares you mean.

 

[Skel]

Dial up ftw... oh wait the nightmares you mean.

I still hear the sounds of my modem connecting.

 

[lupi]

What do you mean, dial up was great. No one had cells, beepers not nearly as popular as old films may make you believe, and your phone line would always be busy. Never have to worry about getting called in!

 

[Sonikku]

Two good things about dial up:

-The modem had a speaker which you could cripple in device settings to turn off the screech
-The internet was free and open and practically untapped by corporate control and the majority of people on it were intelligent techies you could relate with.

 

[Newbian]

What do you mean, dial up was great. No one had cells, beepers not nearly as popular as old films may make you believe, and your phone line would always be busy. Never have to worry about getting called in!

Until they messaged you on icq.

 

[Newbian]

Two good things about dial up:

-The modem had a speaker which you could cripple in device settings to turn off the screech
-The internet was free and open and practically untapped by corporate control and the majority of people on it were intelligent techies you could relate with.

Not to mention animated backgrounds and auto-play midi's was where it was at. :awe:

 

[John Connor]

I remember when I got my first laptop and immediately connected that sucker to the Internet via Dial-up. I think I picked Juno as my service provider. I quickly learned about ebay and the SETI distributed computing application that I installed as a screen saver.

Ever since circa '05 I have had Comcast. I can't see using dial-up anymore with the weight of web pages now a days. It would take you a good 5-7 minutes to view one damn page as it was downloading.

There are free dial-up providers to this day. They give you like an hour or something. I had to use one to grab some networking drivers for a PCMCIA card in an old HP netbook that must have been made in '98. It had no USB so I couldn't transfer the LAN card via USB or CD drive. So I used my FTP and a free dial-up provider to grab the drivers. Once I had the LAN drivers I was able to have full speed Internet, but finding a browser that worked in Windows 98se was hell. I used that old HP netbook as a router monitor. That is until the damn cat knocked it on to the floor and it stopped booting up. Now I have a Dell Mini 910 and it works for my Teamspeak and my DDNS server. Awesome little bastard it is. Thinking about getting another.

 

[cronos]

Until they messaged you on icq.

"uh oh"

 

[Mayne]

early adopter of Rogers@Home. still had a backup free dialup just in case.

 

[edro]

Bring back dancing baby and hamster dance!

 

[thebestMAX]

I had a highy advanced "voice pager" but all the damn thing ever said was "Call the answering service". I could never convince them of what is the point of having a voice pager if I still have to call in.

Cant remember my first dial up provider but it was like 3 hours a month which was plenty.

 

[master_shake_]

oh the 90's...

before the dmca and nsa mass surveillance...

how did they catch terrorist back then?

 

[IronWing]

oh the 90's...

before the dmca and nsa mass surveillance...

how did they catch terrorist back then?

They used police resources to look for terrorists instead inspecting geezers' underwear.

 

[IronWing]

55 photos with a page load for each one? The 90s were never worth that.

 

[Possessed Freak]

Z modem protocol for the win!

 

[Nograts]

I remember the 90's...porn was easily 100 times better than it is now.

"Heeere it comes...get ready! Ohhh! I see a nipple! Is that!?...wait no thats a mole...okay here it comes.....NNIIIIPPPLEEE!"

 

[SKORPI0]

I remember the 90's...porn was easily 100 times better than it is now.

4K porn >>>>>> grainy VHS porn. :awe:

 

[Nograts]

4K porn >>>>>> grainy VHS porn. :awe:

It wasn't the quality that made it better, it was the suspense of the download.

 

[mooncancook]

Good old DOS games to SVGA to hardware accelaerated 3D games all in the 90s. Golden times for pc gaming.