Very nice!
Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't the lights of the icon computers light up for transmitting and receiving?
DialUp95 – A 90s inspired nostalgia hit
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#32Very nice! Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't the lights of the icon computers light up for transmitting and receiving?
Yes, in the Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP notifications area of the taskbar - https://www.computerhope.com/issues/pictures/windows-98-task...
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#33i don't know if its the mandela effect but the sound is not accurate.
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#34i don't know if its the mandela effect but the sound is not accurate.
I think it varied by modem model and maybe also the type of telephony system in your country. This sounds faithful to what I used to hear in the UK.
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#35i don't know if its the mandela effect but the sound is not accurate.
Sounds totally accurate to me.
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#36I’ve tried to explain my kid how we went online back in the days. Need to show this to her.
About 15 years ago I gave some networking courses at a local education center, it was all young kids (18-20 years old). When I told them that the speed we got back in the day was 4 kilobytes per second (56k on a good day), they didn't believe me at all.
I remember using a “high-speed” 14.4 kbps modem. I mean, these were thousands of bits per second, really insane. Faster than many LLMs.
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#37So good. But 31kbps? Wow. You guys were spoilt. 28.8 is the best we got and on a very good day when the lines were nice and dry. I think he even nailed the link upgrade sound on the modem.
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#38So good. But 31kbps? Wow. You guys were spoilt. 28.8 is the best we got and on a very good day when the lines were nice and dry. I think he even nailed the link upgrade sound on the modem.
My first interaction with the internet was an old Windows 3.1 machine with 14.4kbps modem, then we upgraded to a Windows 95 machine with 28.8kbps and later we swapped out the ISA modem for a PCI 56kbps modem. Then ADSL came along and the rest is history. Presumably the modem in this example is a 33.6kbps V.34 modem which had a slightly lower sync negotiated due to a poor line.
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#39Re: DialUp95 – A 90s inspired nostalgia hit
#40I don't know if this was an indian thing but we'd get a dopamine hit type tone at the end and that's not present in this audio.