Servais (il/le)@discuss.tchncs.de to Casual Conversation @lemm.eeEnglish · 24 hours agoAnti-nostalgia thread: what are y’all happy is gone and hope never returns?message-squaremessage-square101fedilinkarrow-up178arrow-down11
arrow-up177arrow-down1message-squareAnti-nostalgia thread: what are y’all happy is gone and hope never returns?Servais (il/le)@discuss.tchncs.de to Casual Conversation @lemm.eeEnglish · 24 hours agomessage-square101fedilink
minus-squaresimple@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·22 hours agoDial-up internet. I would open a website and go do something else for a minute until it loads, then fight with my parents when they pick up the phone when I’ve been downloading something for 3 hours.
minus-square5714@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·22 hours agoWe had very late internet infrastructure upgrade, so at the end we had a bluetooth dial-up internet router in the early 2010s…
minus-squareiii@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·22 hours agoInternet over bluetooth is a crime against humanity
minus-squareBigou@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up7·22 hours ago@simple@lemm.ee Minitel was even worse. But then, Minitel was a French exclusivity. @Servais@discuss.tchncs.de
minus-squareTaewyth@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·13 hours agoobligatory quick Sylvqin video (in french though) I haven’t known the minitel but I guess that the novelty of BBSes compensated the loading time
Dial-up internet. I would open a website and go do something else for a minute until it loads, then fight with my parents when they pick up the phone when I’ve been downloading something for 3 hours.
We had very late internet infrastructure upgrade, so at the end we had a bluetooth dial-up internet router in the early 2010s…
Internet over bluetooth is a crime against humanity
@simple@lemm.ee Minitel was even worse. But then, Minitel was a French exclusivity.
@Servais@discuss.tchncs.de
obligatory quick Sylvqin video (in french though)
I haven’t known the minitel but I guess that the novelty of BBSes compensated the loading time