Servais (il/le) to Casual Conversation @lemm.eeEnglish • 6 days agoAnti-nostalgia thread: what are y’all happy is gone and hope never returns?message-square142fedilinkarrow-up198arrow-down11
arrow-up197arrow-down1message-squareAnti-nostalgia thread: what are y’all happy is gone and hope never returns?Servais (il/le) to Casual Conversation @lemm.eeEnglish • 6 days agomessage-square142fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish37•6 days 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish14•6 days agoWe had very late internet infrastructure upgrade, so at the end we had a bluetooth dial-up internet router in the early 2010s…
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish17•6 days agoInternet over bluetooth is a crime against humanity
minus-squareBigoulinkfedilink7•6 days ago@[email protected] Minitel was even worse. But then, Minitel was a French exclusivity. @[email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•6 days 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
@[email protected] Minitel was even worse. But then, Minitel was a French exclusivity.
@[email protected]
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