the internet in 1995

[SagaLore]

Only 963 dollars in todays dollar what a Deal. First unboxing video?

POKE,PEEK 🙂

sprites! 😀

 

[bradley]

Stewart Cheifet was a Harvard law geek on the vanguard of the home computer/Internet revolution who never figured out how to capitalize on it. I wonder what ever happened to him?

 

[rivan]

I prefer this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmnlkLc1Foc

My first computer was a C=64; got it in '83, right after my parents divorced.

Had a tape drive (later upgraded to disk, woop!) and a 300 baud modem. I connected to a BBS in Leavenworth, KS run by a friend of my dad's. As I was starting to learn my way around, we moved to rural Missouri and because literally everything was long distance for us, the modem didn't get used again for years.

 

[brianmanahan]

Had a tape drive (later upgraded to disk, woop!) and a 300 baud modem.

1541 AWW YEAH

i unfortunately never had a modem on mine though 🙁

 

[cronos]

With USR modems, do you remember the "bong" sound when it made an X2 connection? There were two standards: Kflex and X2. X2 was USR exclusive and worked better than KFlex. They later unified the two with V.90.

I thought the two "bongs" were the 33.3 sound, and then there's a "beep" or "click" (or something else) that marked the X2 connection.

I'm squeezing my brain here trying to remember it. It's really scary how you remember some things very clearly but yet completely forgot other simple things happening at the same time (this is probably the sign of getting old? D🙂