I’ll have to say, needing to deliberately “call” in for the internet was kind of nice vs today when just about everything around you is connected doing almost whatever it pleases all the time.
When “going online” was an evening activity, not a necessity of life
Hey are you off the phone??? I wanna get online!!!
-Shouted from a different floor where the PC was
Hey get off the phone I want to look at saucy pictures of, um, shut up it’s my gravy magazine okay
Going offline is my weekend activity. Time to pile up the firewood for winter.
Although it sucked so much if you were downloading something like a large (for the time) game and had call waiting or someone picked up a phone in another part of the house. 3 hours down the drain.
Download Managers were a god send for that reason.
Definitely, but there was a time before them. A dark and evil time when your world could be destroyed by a guy calling to sell gutter cleaning services.
Or your mam deciding to call her sister for 3 hours even though she just saw her.
It took a very long time to get counter strike
Holy shit. I completely forgot about download managers.
I had one, I forget its name, but it was a firewall AND download manager. Bizarre combo if you ask me but it was pretty cool. Its logo was a lightning bolt I think.
Second house line was a game changer. Literally. It let me play Quake online.
In the 2000(s) messengers used to warn you not send phone numbers to your chat correspondents. now without giving out your phone number you can’t use those messengers
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
you’ve got mail!
AT codes are still used in a lot of places.
Now I want to set that up on a guest network so they have to listen to that sound before it lets them connect 😂
