• @RojoSanIchiban
    link
    519 months ago

    When I was 12 the boobs weren’t done downloading over the 9600 baud modem yet anyway.

    • Rhaedas
      link
      fedilink
      279 months ago

      9600? Luxury.

      I started with 300 baud, where you could read faster than the letters would show up. And we liked it that way! (not really lol)

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        169 months ago

        Oh yeah, tough guy? I wrote telex over an unstable 75 baud uhf-SATCOM link running on a fleetsat from the 70’s. Pretty crappy and I didn’t like it, since I had to usually send it several times ;-)

      • @rhacer
        link
        English
        89 months ago

        I wrote my first code at the end of a 300baud accoustic coupled modem. I don’t know if the “not really” was modifying the “liked it that way” or the entire post.

      • @surewhynotlem
        link
        89 months ago

        You guys are spoiled. My modem was so slow that, when I wanted to see boobs I had to grow my own.

      • @whynotzoidberg
        link
        59 months ago

        300 baud? Psh, my dick is way bigger.

        Wait, sorry, forgot if we were discussing or swinging it around.

          • @whynotzoidberg
            link
            1
            edit-2
            9 months ago

            Dude you gotta let your fiber go

            BPS is the best in the business

            PS I got a dick like Jesus

      • umbraroze
        link
        fedilink
        39 months ago

        I once managed to borrow a 300 bps modem for my Commodore 64, and showed some of the local online services to my friend who owned the modem. (It was actually super fancy because I managed to use a terminal program that showed 80 mildly blurry characters per line.) By that time our family had a PC with a 2400 bps modem.