Ahh, I remember my first internet experience with Dial-up AOL. Those clicks, beepings, and static sounds while connecting was music to my ears.


Come to think of it. AOL created Dub-Step.

I miss parts of the 90s but I certainly don't miss dial-up... although it's fun to think about a time when "being online" was special and took effort and sacrifice. Remember when you had to choose between using the phone and using the internet?

I thought that by 1995 these things were pretty easy to see. It doesn't seem like much foresight to me.

It was clear that it wasn't a fad, but it was dial-up at the time (or ISDN if you were fancy) unless you were at a university or a specially connected business so imagining streaming TV and phone would have seemed like wishful thinking. I doubt that those kids actually predicted it, but someone did. That person probably knew about emerging ADSL and cable internet.

I was playing quake over dial-up by 1996, so I agree, not foresight. By 1995 it was just reporting on what currently existed.

<sigh>

I am officially old now, aren't I?

>> ^Gutspiller:

I thought that by 1995 these things were pretty easy to see. It doesn't seem like much foresight to me.

In 1995, I was in college! I used SLiRP and TIA with Windows 3.1's Trumpet for dial-up Internet (was still using local BBSes too). My university only had three POPs, and I was hogging one!