The soundtrack for Quake is/was awesome. But, yeah - I really got into even heavier music than I was into already at the time and would listen to that while playing any number of multiplayer Quake mods.

The segment about Threewave CTF (with the grappling hook) really shot a wave of nostalgia through me. Aside from some really unique Ultima Online guild skirmishes, Threewave CTF for me takes the cake for best multiplayer experiences I've ever had ; and to lesser extents Doom 2 over dialup and WoW.

we stilll use dialup to connect ot a lot of remote pc's at work.

#vivalahandshake

All I remember from second life on my shit computer and I think it was Dialup... maybe not. But all I got out of the game is I had to grow some hemp, the stage I left at it was all about growing hemp and starting a fire or something.

Not really a game for me anymore though, not into that sort of thing.

eff that.. mice are still on dialup.

Cheese.>> ^kymbos:

Since when did mice get wifi?!? We have to do something!>> ^Praetor:
"clearly the cat was distressed. taking pleasure at watching innocent animals suffer is intolerable."
I think every mouse in existence is staring at you speechless right now.

Wait a minute... People keep going back to porn because it "isn't working"? It doesn't "actually satisfy"? Ahh yes, as opposed to intimate sex with a loving partner, which you engage in one time and then you're completely satisfied and set for the rest of your life. ...Oh wait, she didn't intend to imply that? I don't think that porn viewing and a healthy mutually respectful and loving relationship with an actual human being are by any means mutually exclusive.

I hit puberty just as dialup internet was becoming available in my hometown. My family were early adopters and got internet service pretty much as soon as it was available. As you might imagine, I grew up with rather free and easy access to internet porn, and I browsed for quite a lot of it. However, I think that in examining my own experience as objectively as possible, I believe that I was able to self-police or direct my exposure away from the sorts of porn that I would agree are potentially damaging; for example violence, rape, or demeaning behavior (although definitions of each of those vary a lot). But in any case, I think that the reason that I was able to achieve this self-direction was though good parenting. If these things concern you, talk to your kids about it, and explain why. Provide them with the framework they need, and you'll probably be surprised at how well they react.


And just for one more anecdote, I thought I'd contribute a story that exposes just how much of a nerd I am. When I was a sophomore in High School, I was into math. I was taking trigonometry with mostly seniors and a few juniors. I had a complex graphing calculator, a Texas Instruments TI-85, with a roughly 2.5 inch by 3.5 inch screen. On the internet, you could download programs that would overwrite the basic "operating system" of the calculator, and allow you to load programs that people coded up in assembly language compatible with the machine's Z80 processor.

One such program was an image viewer. The calculator normally just had a 2-color liquid crystal screen; each pixel was either ON (black) or OFF (white). This viewer program allowed the screen to be treated as grayscale by adjusting the contrast/brightness values sent to individual pixels, as opposed the the screen as a whole as per usual.

What did I do with this program? I loaded it up with porn, of course. All softcore nudes, mostly Pamela Anderson as I recall. So, with the correct button presses to get into the assembly loader, I had a very low-resolution porn image browser. Being a sophomore, I thought that I could gain some "street cred" with the upperclassmen by showing off my porn. And, as you can probably guess, they immediately turned me in to the teacher just because it would be fun to watch me squirm. Fortunately, my teacher was very cool about it. He said: "I don't want to see it, I don't want to know about it, and if I ever hear anything about it again in the future, I'll be highly displeased". That was enough to get me to delete the program from the calculator.

The segment about porn on (the oh-so ubiquitous) cellphones brought that episode to mind.

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>> ^KamikazeCricket:
You do know that YouTube did not exist in the 90s, right?

You don't need to be in the 90's to be able to use dialup. I'm sure if you get an old modem and the right connection you can hook up a dialup even today.

If they fixed the awful networking in the original (well, it was out when most people still had dialup) and made it playable online at a decent pace for co-op... sign me up!

>> ^JiggaJonson:
If they wanted to drop big big cash on something tech they should invest in bringing broadband internet to rural/small urban parts of America.

Rural America is happy with their dialup America Online, thank you very much.

In reply to this comment by JiggaJonson:
If they wanted to drop big big cash on something tech they should invest in bringing broadband internet to rural/small urban parts of America.
Rural America is happy with their dialup America Online, thank you very much.

>> ^Entropy997:
As far as broadband deployment, I think that's great. However, Internet connection speeds need to be improved. There should be a forced switch to a minimum 5 megabit connection.
Supposedly the national average is 2 megabits, but that is a lie. The average HARDCORE GAMER on Steam has a .766 megabit DSL line, according to Steam surveys.
We invented the Internet. We should be in the top 5 countries in the world for connection speeds.
Japan's national average is supposed to be 50 megabits. Ours isn't even actually 2.

Japan is smaller than California with more than triple the population density. If you live in a major US city, you can get a 50Mb pipe. They can't roll that kind of infrastructure into fucking Liberty, NY and expect to even approach breaking even, let alone profit. There just aren't enough customers.

On the other hand, cable here is 7Mb. I imagine most US broadband is well over 2Mb and the average is just being dragged down by people who don't see any reason to upgrade from dialup.

>> ^CaptainPlanet420:
>> ^Kagenin:
Guess the sun has set on my first sticky'd post. Thanks again for all the kind words and support. I'm really glad that people enjoyed this piece, and I like how the discussions have gone.
Hopefully, this won't be the last... but the next one may come for a while.
My girlfriend and I have had do move back into her Mom's place, and it's too far off the beaten trails to get DSL. I'll be looking into other broadband options, but there are a few coffee shops with free WiFi that I'll be mooching off of in the mean time.
Thanks again folks, the support means a lot to me. Let's hope this prop gets flushed down the drain with the conservatives' dreams of taking the white house for a third consecutive term.

Good luck on that dialup buddy, I'm with ya. Hopefully when you're outta high school you can afford some BB.


Thanks, Ass. I can afford my broadband. AT&T won't upgrade their rural-area lines to support DSL service.

And I'm in College.

>> ^Kagenin:
Guess the sun has set on my first sticky'd post. Thanks again for all the kind words and support. I'm really glad that people enjoyed this piece, and I like how the discussions have gone.
Hopefully, this won't be the last... but the next one may come for a while.
My girlfriend and I have had do move back into her Mom's place, and it's too far off the beaten trails to get DSL. I'll be looking into other broadband options, but there are a few coffee shops with free WiFi that I'll be mooching off of in the mean time.
Thanks again folks, the support means a lot to me. Let's hope this prop gets flushed down the drain with the conservatives' dreams of taking the white house for a third consecutive term.


Good luck on that dialup buddy, I'm with ya. Hopefully when you're outta high school you can afford some BB.

L0LZ0RS!!!1!

I admit I was being deliberately provocative. Mainly because every time this issue has been raised by the Sift Gods lately, it's been shot down like a cold stone zeppelin with lead boots on Jupiter. And while I am very much in favour of involving the community in decision-making processes, I am against pandering to those with a vested interest in preventing change.

That, and I'm grumpy because a Bell Canada / Rogers Wireless snafu has left me without DSL for a week and I'm now surfing on 56k dialup. Eeeurgh!

By the way, I think the best method of shortening the queue time would be to tighten it by an hour every day for as long as necessary. For a Code Warrior of Lucky's gargantuan stature, that should be a snap.