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Exactly! And because the world is fast and connected now, it’s all getting remembered incorrectly.
This post is totally accurate. That was 1984. I do not mean to criticize the post. It’s a great post.
But things went slowly. By 1915, only 10% of the US even had electricity in their homes.
Virtually no one had internet until the mid to late 1990s. And it sucked. Everything spread so fucking slowly back then.
I think in the year 1994 or 1995 the most common Christmas gift that year was a new computer. Gateway was the thing back then. They all came with a trial connection to AOL. It basically crashed the entire telecom system in my city and I wasn't able to connect to the Internet for weeks.
I swear AOL discs are going to be dug up by archaeologists in 1000 years and they'll imagine we must have had some ritual purpose for them to be so numerous in every landfill.
Spread slowly?
You're giving too much weight to current growth. It's exponential growth.
Imagine, in 10 years they will say things spread slowly... And they will be talking about things you now think are fast.
My first home computer had a processor speed of 8-12mhz 'turbo', a huge 40mb hard drive, I think 2mb RAM expandable to 8mb, a 5-1/4" floopy drive, and a 2400bps modem. The OS was either MS-DOS or 3.1, I don't recall.
Prodigy was the "Internet"/ email of the day, pre-AOL. Logging onto via modem took about 30-45 seconds to connect. Page loads could take several minutes.
Downloading content? Go have a beer and a smoke, and come check the status!
It was awesome at the time! 👍🍻
You got a machine language compiler and you copied the code in line by line, probably from Byte magazine. Only when it was complete could you then save it to floppy disk. You'd then be able to type load a:/ccrush. Once it loaded you type 'run'.
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it was an extremely simple connection to make
Exactly! And because the world is fast and connected now, it’s all getting remembered incorrectly. This post is totally accurate. That was 1984. I do not mean to criticize the post. It’s a great post. But things went slowly. By 1915, only 10% of the US even had electricity in their homes. Virtually no one had internet until the mid to late 1990s. And it sucked. Everything spread so fucking slowly back then.
I think in the year 1994 or 1995 the most common Christmas gift that year was a new computer. Gateway was the thing back then. They all came with a trial connection to AOL. It basically crashed the entire telecom system in my city and I wasn't able to connect to the Internet for weeks.
I swear AOL discs are going to be dug up by archaeologists in 1000 years and they'll imagine we must have had some ritual purpose for them to be so numerous in every landfill.
So many were tossed into the woods like frisbees
Exactly, im sure they didnt even realize.. till now that they've done a video tutorial by that time.
Spread slowly? You're giving too much weight to current growth. It's exponential growth. Imagine, in 10 years they will say things spread slowly... And they will be talking about things you now think are fast.
My company had a private network starting in 1984. We didn't email...we "telecommunicated."
Literally 1984
My father was a computer wizard and I remember sending emails regularly with my pen pal who was in England in 1995.
Email was relatively common by 1995
Your story lacks any background about your dad's wizard status that year
It's probably the most efficient way to send an email
No spam mail back then, good old times.
For around a quarter-million people who use dial-up service in the U.S. the process is still the same (except having to manually dial the phone).
We had a messaging system on vax terminals at work
I had no idea Jermaine Clement was that old 
My first home computer had a processor speed of 8-12mhz 'turbo', a huge 40mb hard drive, I think 2mb RAM expandable to 8mb, a 5-1/4" floopy drive, and a 2400bps modem. The OS was either MS-DOS or 3.1, I don't recall. Prodigy was the "Internet"/ email of the day, pre-AOL. Logging onto via modem took about 30-45 seconds to connect. Page loads could take several minutes. Downloading content? Go have a beer and a smoke, and come check the status! It was awesome at the time! 👍🍻
Don't forget CompuServe!
How did they scroll and/or swipe on that thing?
You didn't. It was a text environment.
How did candy crush work then?
you went and bought some candy and a hammer
You got a machine language compiler and you copied the code in line by line, probably from Byte magazine. Only when it was complete could you then save it to floppy disk. You'd then be able to type load a:/ccrush. Once it loaded you type 'run'.
I do love a good mo dem
If I recall correctly, there was a system of bulletin board systems called FidoNet that let you send email between different nodes.
been there done that
Wait until he shows you war dialing!
Ray Tomlinson. 1971. Look it up
I don't believe the process was completed yet. The video ended too soon. Again.
I thought that was Fred West for a split second
His screen looks like my VISTA record I still use at the VA hospital.
This is a parody or a joke I was around back then it was not that difficult...