figmentPez
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Ooooh, I had no idea that nerdy carved candles exist. How much are they? $60 Oh, well, that's still out of my price range, but not nearly as much as I would have guessed.
They've got a cool collection: BMO from Adventure Time, Koroks from The Legend of Zelda, Calcifer from Howl's Moving Castle, Oogie Boogie from The Nightmare Before Christmas. Most are cheaper than the Jiji candle.
figmentPez
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Turing Tumble, marble powered computing:
figmentPez
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Buckle up and get ready for a tale of some serious nerdity:
JaidenAnimations "Pokemon sent me to Japan!"
JaidenAnimations "Pokemon sent me to Japan!"
figmentPez
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Knurling
Awww yeah, I wanna grip that bad boy.
Phrasing! Boom!
In that case you might want to take some ibuprofen for your knees.
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Dave
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Dave
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Bullshit. Millennials didn’t have dial-up modems did they? That’s a GenX thing, too, right?
GasBandit
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figmentPez
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for a second, i couldn't remember what thread I was in, and was bracing myself for the epic fail.
I was on dialup until well into college, and even then it wasn't proper broadband I went to, it was a 4g cellular hotspot.
My area of Florida in fact didn't get proper broadband until *checks calendar* last week.
GasBandit
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And even then, for most of those, it'd just be "that noise that my parents' computer made sometimes."
Hmm...
First personal computer that I actually OWNED was either late 1991 or early 1992, paired with a v.34 modem (28.8/33.6).
Broadband of any kind was not really available (without cable) in my area until 2003, I can't remember if I signed up with SBC Yahoo DSL then or waited until 2006 when U-Verse came out. Either way, it's been broadband of one form or another ever since.
--Patrick
First personal computer that I actually OWNED was either late 1991 or early 1992, paired with a v.34 modem (28.8/33.6).
Broadband of any kind was not really available (without cable) in my area until 2003, I can't remember if I signed up with SBC Yahoo DSL then or waited until 2006 when U-Verse came out. Either way, it's been broadband of one form or another ever since.
--Patrick
figmentPez
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That puts my younger sisters as Millennials, and I guarantee you that they both know the modem noise as something they used to connect to the internet. They were in their mid to late teens by the time we got our first cable modem.
We were far from the last area to switch over to broadband, too. When I was having an LDR in my mid twenties the woman I was dating was using dial-up. She wasn't a millennial, but I was ~25 and the oldest millennials were 23 at the time! There are millennials who were adults, living on their own, and using AOL dial-up because broadband adoption took so long in some areas.
Dial-up was in use for a lot longer than you seem to think it was.
GasBandit
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Some sort of internet is not the issue here - it's when you moved over from dialup to broadband. I had "internet" in 94 - on a 28.8 kbaud modem. But cable modems weren't really available in my area until after 97, and even then, I didn't get one til around 2003.
figmentPez
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Please keep in mind that this is a millennial:
That's Clint Basinger of Lazy Game Reviews (born in 1986). That shelf of old software isn't stuff from before his time, it's mostly stuff that he grew up with. He absolutely knows the sound of dial-up internet, from first hand experience, using it while he grew up downloading shareware from BBSes.
That's Clint Basinger of Lazy Game Reviews (born in 1986). That shelf of old software isn't stuff from before his time, it's mostly stuff that he grew up with. He absolutely knows the sound of dial-up internet, from first hand experience, using it while he grew up downloading shareware from BBSes.
