Sorta OT: Comcast v. Century Link

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  1. Strenuus

    Strenuus Well-Known Member

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    I remember when it took an hour to download a song on 56k.

    Hell, I remember 14.4k baud.

    Hell, I remember sunlight!
     
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    Ha, yeah I was excited to get some fancy USRobotics modem and dial up the local board. Mp3 came out and it was so revolutionary having 97% of the quality at 5% the size. WAV file's were huge! My computer had 4MB ram and an 80MB HD, which was an upgrade. Now my cell phone is a thousand times faster.
     
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    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    It's a trip. I remember when anti-skip on CD players were the THING.
     
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    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    Yes, I do. I'm not much of a TV guy, my "good" TV is a 5-year old 47" Vizio, but even on my non-state of the art hardware, I like the HD quality. In fact, I ONLY watch the HD channels.

    BNM
     
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    ROTARY PHONES!!!! :MARIS61:
     
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    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    It has wires.
     
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    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    POTS - Plain Old Telephone Set.

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    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    There's already a generation of people who maybe have never seen one.

    Or a payphone.

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    At any rate, I am the best thread de-railer since a mixum thread!
     
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    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    You young whippersnappers! My first REAL computer was an IBM PC with a 4.77MHz 8088 processor and 256K of RAM and two 5 1/4" floppy drives. I upgraded the shit out of it with a 8.0MHz NEC V20 processor, 640K of RAM a 20MB HDD and 1200 baud modem and thought I was hot shit!

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    The incredible machines took up my whole dos drive!!! :MARIS61:
     
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    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    A couple years ago, I was talking to one of the guys on one of my rec league teams and he asked me how long I'd worked in the high tech industry. When I told him I started working at IBM in 1984, he laughed and said he was born in 1987 - and he was one of my older teammates. Fucking kids!

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    Sedatedfork Rip City Rhapsody

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    I had a Commodore Vic 20. That's right! 20KB ROM, 5 KB RAM (expandable to 32KB)
     
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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    It is FiOS. We're out in Hillsboro :grin:
     
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    In 1991, when I was 14, I wrote a top-down dungeon crawling RPG on an unexpanded VIC-20. I created a program to save the levels to disk in DAT files, so the main game read the levels off disk and only kept a 5x5 grid in RAM. I had shops, monsters, and a 30x15 maze... in BASIC. .. in 3583 bytes.

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    It was the second nerdiest thing I've ever done.
     
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    Sedatedfork Rip City Rhapsody

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    Sounds rather creative (and nerdy) *scared to ask what tops it*
     
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    BlazerCaravan Hug a Bigot... to Death

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    I designed and professionally published a collectable card game (like Magic The Gathering, but with anime characters) in 1996.
     
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    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    Go for it. Like all the other providers, they'll try to jack up your prices when your contract is up, and you'll have to threaten to leave to get their special "customer loyalty" pricing, but other than that, I don't have any complaints about the quality of the service. I actually had the same installer both times I moved and he was really good - and even on time, but that may have just been the luck of the draw.

    BNM
     
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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    What are your internet speeds currently?
     
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