Post #671546
2025-06-11 16:31 UTC
Replies (20)
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@asakiyume@wandering.shop 2025-06-11 18:34
@janeishly@beige.party Read this to my grizzled husband who said, in a fake Yorkshire accent, "56K modem? Luxury! In my day we used 28K, and we didn't complain!"
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@pthane@toot.wales 2025-06-11 18:45
@janeishly@beige.party Oh yes. When the height of tech sophistication was having two phone lines so you could use the phone and internet AT THE SAME TIME!
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@cjust@infosec.exchange 2025-06-12 13:20
@janeishly@beige.party
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@TimWardCam@c.im 2025-06-23 18:03
@janeishly@beige.party 56k was seriously posh. Some us started with 300 baud acoustic couplers built into the back of just-about-portable terminals that printed onto thermal paper at 30 cps. Which in turn were seriously posh compared to the 10 cps ASR33s we'd been used to up until then.
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@swordgeek@mstdn.ca 2025-06-25 23:58
@janeishly@beige.party guilty as charged.
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@jascha@ohai.social 2025-06-26 06:17
@janeishly@beige.party
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@DrHyde@fosstodon.org 2025-07-29 00:09
@janeishly@beige.party I do not miss doing ssh key exchange over an acoustic coupler
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@mardigroan@mas.to 2025-07-29 01:48
@janeishly@beige.party Nice homage to the android's speech in Blade Runner!
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@Pineywoozle@masto.ai 2025-10-22 22:10
@janeishly@beige.party LoL I love that scene. 🥰 Nicely played.
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@simonzerafa@infosec.exchange 2025-12-05 05:29
@janeishly@beige.party Oh, very nice. I might have to come up with my own variation on your Tears in the Rain motif 🙂🖖
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@hatysa@autistics.life 2025-12-05 05:43
@janeishly@beige.party That sounds like oldish Millennial at the oldest. I’m about 10 years older than “oldest Millennial”, and the first modem I used whose speed I know for certain was 1200 bps, but the one attached to the thermal-printer terminal my dad brought home once, when I was 9 or 10, was much slower, probably 300 bps tops. I’m still at least 10 years away from a “typical” white-collar-worker retirement. I’m pretty sure you can find people 20 or even 30 years older, whose memories of early computers were “I plugged in patch cables and wired up literal magnetic core memory in my day.”
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@jamesderrick@mastodon.social 2025-12-05 09:53
@janeishly@beige.party Mine was a Gateway 2000 tower (DX2-66), originally in a black and white box cow box but close enough!
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@bgrinter@mastodon.sdf.org 2025-12-05 18:22
@janeishly@beige.party @timrichards@aus.social @Janeishly@mastodonapp.uk https://mastodon.sdf.org/@bgrinter/109528564134610705
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@fgbjr@indieweb.social 2026-01-19 13:31
@janeishly@beige.party As it happens, I did have a computer catch on fire once.
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@leoschuldiner23@linernotes.club 2026-02-27 12:40
@janeishly@beige.party Apparently we all just wanna go back where things were simpler and innocent. By the way, I remember using a 14,4k modem in the second half of the 90s 🤓
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@cptbutton@dice.camp 2026-03-28 01:47
@janeishly@beige.party "We were iron men in silicon chips in those days, never affeared to brave the most tumultous flamewar, or to take Great Kibo's .sig in vain. Always willing to ride a wild packet throughout the switching network, even if it meant having to sacrifice your best matey to Shub-Internet."
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@tbaker@beige.party 2026-04-18 14:34
@janeishly@beige.party 300 baud was my first modem.
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@dedicto@zeroes.ca 2026-06-08 05:45
@janeishly@beige.party 56K? I've joined 300-baud single-line telephone dialup BBS systems — and accessed them via landline.
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@SeismoAllegra@mastodon.social 2026-06-08 15:30
@janeishly@beige.party 300/1200 bps starting point here.
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@Netraven@hear-me.social 2026-06-08 17:48
@janeishly@beige.party and then there are even older things which have been observing since time immemorial which are better off left like sleeping gods.