19-04-2009, 19:42
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Inactive
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Manchester, UK
Services: ClearFibre Internet, Vodafone mobile Google Pixel 4
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Dial-up nostalgia!
Ah, those were the days... 
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19-04-2009, 20:55
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#2
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Inactive
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Woking
Age: 55
Posts: 2,266
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Re: Dial-up nostalgia!
lol
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19-04-2009, 21:00
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#3
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Hello !
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Somewhere
Services: Sky, AppleTV, Netflix
Posts: 16,786
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Re: Dial-up nostalgia!
And if you were with World online or any other over subscribed ISP at the time the dialing would go on for a long time before you finally connected.
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19-04-2009, 23:23
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#4
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Inactive
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Doncaster, S. Yorks.
Age: 42
Services: TV:Sky+, BB:DRL VDSL2 40/10 with Ask4, Phone:Mobile Only
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Re: Dial-up nostalgia!
Yep...those were the days of having to reconnect every 2-hours with freeserve because they had the 0808 number Before that we were with Virgin.net before VM took them over - with the 0845 numbers... My dad would go crazy if he saw those phone bills again!
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20-04-2009, 00:34
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Hello !
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Somewhere
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Posts: 16,786
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Re: Dial-up nostalgia!
I used to be with Screaming.net.
We weren't allowed to go on the net until after 6pm as then it became free.
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20-04-2009, 01:02
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Inactive
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Woking
Age: 55
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Re: Dial-up nostalgia!
You youngsters don't know you're born.  I started 'online' back in about 1989 on BBS with my mate and his Apple Mac. Then I was able to use university computers until about 94 when I got a 28,8 modem and used compuserve. In those days there was no such thing as a lo-call number for ISPs, you had to pay full whack for a local or national number. So your ISP access number was always your 'best friend' on your BT friends and family account.
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20-04-2009, 01:20
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cf.mega poster
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Lincolnshire
Age: 37
Posts: 2,031
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Re: Dial-up nostalgia!
I first went online around 2000 (not sure, think it was around the time I started at Secondary school) with Freeserve Hometime, only allowed online between 6pm and 8am, got disconnected every 2 hours. I then moved to PlusNet on dial up in 2003, then to broadband around May 2005 as soon as it became available. So I havent been online as long as I have been using a computer.
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20-04-2009, 18:21
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Scotlands biggest region
Services: TV,Phone & BB
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Re: Dial-up nostalgia!
Being the late starter i am with computers and interweb i never had the pleasure of dial-up.I did once have a commodore 64 as a spotty 15Yr old but no internet.
NTL`s 1Mb STB was my first connection.
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20-04-2009, 18:58
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An Awesome Dude
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 4,919
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I saw this a couple weeks ago and still wonder: HAS ANYONE FIGURED OUT WHAT # IS DIALED??
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21-04-2009, 18:41
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Hello !
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Somewhere
Services: Sky, AppleTV, Netflix
Posts: 16,786
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Re: Dial-up nostalgia!
Ah, I'l always remember the days on 56k where it took over an hour to download an MP3.
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21-04-2009, 18:49
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R.I.P.
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Near Sandy Heath transmitter
Services: BT
Posts: 19,325
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Re: Dial-up nostalgia!
My sister still uses dial up!!
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