I think I must be going a little crazy..... I just heard a very distinctive dial up modem sound.... Maybe 9600 baud.
No radios are on....so it wasn't something sending packet or aprs.
But that's not the crazy part .... No one else in the room heard it, I was the only one.....
It wasnt loud, and didn't last very long. For the life of me I have no idea what would have made the sound...
So I heard the #dialup#modem noise again tonight....this time it was coming out of a game my grand daughter was playing. She said "yes I was playing the game the other day". To which I asked why didn't you tell me when I asked about the modem sound? Then I got the answer we all knew was coming...... "What's a modem sound, that's the lagging sound in Roblox"
Mystery solved. I just didn't know to ask the right question.
What does 'being online' mean to you?
In the 90's, it meant #dialup modems and all the noise and slowness that came with it.
In the early 2000's it meant HSDPA via my #Nokia phone over IrDA or Pop Port, at varying speeds from 9600 baud, to around 42 Kbit.
Later, DSL.
These days it's anything, but in my head, I'm not 'online' unless I'm in a browser.
It's a weird psychological thing I think, because in the 90's, after dialing up, you'd open a browser to do well, most things. Fewer email clients and things existed as programs back then, at least that I had access to, so 'The Internet' was such a purposeful action you had to take.
These days with always on connections, it's just there, and it's part and parcel of what we do, but if I actively stop and think about it, 'online' will always mean browser.
Obviously even this post is 'online' and I know that in my head, but it doesn't compute in the same way.
To some of you born after a certain point, this likely makes no sense at all.
Anybody know of a reputable source for a Windows 95 (sp2) ISO (and license key) or a vm image that will load in kvm/qemu, if such things are possible (the reputable bit).
I've got my dial up internet setup working and want a realistic OS to run with it. I'd go with Windows 3.11 but I really can't be doing with feeding a VM floppy images to do the install...
almost 9 years later and I'm still passing around Casey West's "Durable Communication" post as the gold standard on advice for leading distributed teams. (Any #perl folks know if cwest is out here in the Fediverse somewhere?) http://caseywest.com/durable-communication/
Espechally since that #uC is easy to obtain and relatively cheap (compared to a #Pi0 / #Pi0W which were used for the #DreamPi#Dialup adaptor and are still not widely available at #MSRP)...
@CenturyAvocado No it isn’t - the #PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) is the network as a whole. #POTS is the method of accessing that network that uses copper.
Calling it the #PSTNSwitchOff is like calling a #dialup shutdown the “Internet Switchoff”.
The network itself isn’t going - just a common way people have used to access it.
I can’t be the only one who remembers Seganet. When I had a #Dreamcast back in the day, before broadband was available, I subscribed to this #dialup ISP.
It was… fine. I mean it was dialup so it was basically the same as the service I had already been using. I wanted it because it had #SEGA in the name! Can you blame me?
We Americans like to laugh at the load-times of old #8bit micros from across the pond, but it's not that different than loading a shockwave game over #dialup, and not much more expensive.
When I started calling #dialup#BBS systems around age 11, I used the handle "POTPURI". A shortened form of "potpourri." The reason for the shortened spelling is that I first used it when playing Summer Games on the #C64 with our family. I wanted to come up with a funny name and thought of the line from the #WeirdAl song "I Lost on Jeopardy" that said, "I took potpourri for one hundred and then my head started to spin..." but the whole word wouldn't fit into the character limit. This was incredibly funny to 10/11 year old Matt.
#introductions We cobbled together a free-to-use dialup ISP out of trash and spare parts. dialup.world is composed of four modems for simultaneous connections delivering speeds up to 33.6K.
This is currently a bunch of USR Sportsters hooked into Linux, but we are currently working on setups with Cisco gear, as well as some musings in 56K, other weird dialup appliances, and retro networking.
We also supply dialup access to the WebTV Redialed project (http://webtv.zone/) which means if you dig your WebTV out of storage and hook it into a phone line, it just works with no modification needed on your part!
I invite you to watch our bad ideas become reality.
"All these moments will be lost in time, like droplets of a liquifying rubber foot wearily tracing their path down the underside of a 30 year old modem."