The announcer wandering through that chat hellscape is hilarious! Funny how my memories of chatrooms as a 13/m/ny are almost all warm and fuzzy yet this video dredges up so many feelings of being confused or frustrated by actually trying to use those damn things.
I remember Compuserve was pretty expensive in the '80s up until they started offering a flat rate in '97. Before that they would charge an hourly rate depending on what baud rate you connected at. $6/hr for slow 300 baud and $12/hr for 1200 baud. This on top of what you had to pay for the phone call to connect. I only remember AOL starting when they were charging a flat monthly rate of about $15/mo. You still had to pay whatever it cost to call the local access #. Prodigy was the 3rd popular service during that time, they charged a flat rate of around $10/mo, of course again on top of what you had to pay to call the local access #. Local BBSes were really where it was at before the Web became more popular in the mid '90s. Chatrooms, games, access to FidoNet & Usenet groups. This guy was shocked by the different Usenet groups that were available back then. I can't imagine what he would think of what is available on the internet now.
The dial-up days. I remember in order to d/l a program back then you'd start it at night before you went to bed and checked the progress of the d/l the next morning. If you were lucky and didn't loose your connection you might have downloaded it fully. Another fun caveat with computers back then: if you had any issue with your computer hardware tech support would tell you it's a software problem and software tech support would tell you it's a hardware problem. Does anyone remember having to install drivers for peripherals, e.g. printers? 😠
17:38 The lobby was pretty much dead since you were automatically put in one when you entered chat. People would then search the room list and go where they wanted. There was rarely discussion in lobbies.
The announcer wandering through that chat hellscape is hilarious! Funny how my memories of chatrooms as a 13/m/ny are almost all warm and fuzzy yet this video dredges up so many feelings of being confused or frustrated by actually trying to use those damn things.
People today would lose their minds waiting for the 1995 internet to load 😂
Absolutely!!
I remember Compuserve was pretty expensive in the '80s up until they started offering a flat rate in '97. Before that they would charge an hourly rate depending on what baud rate you connected at. $6/hr for slow 300 baud and $12/hr for 1200 baud. This on top of what you had to pay for the phone call to connect. I only remember AOL starting when they were charging a flat monthly rate of about $15/mo. You still had to pay whatever it cost to call the local access #. Prodigy was the 3rd popular service during that time, they charged a flat rate of around $10/mo, of course again on top of what you had to pay to call the local access #.
Local BBSes were really where it was at before the Web became more popular in the mid '90s. Chatrooms, games, access to FidoNet & Usenet groups.
This guy was shocked by the different Usenet groups that were available back then. I can't imagine what he would think of what is available on the internet now.
What about GENIE? about $6 per hour too.
The dial-up days. I remember in order to d/l a program back then you'd start it at night before you went to bed and checked the progress of the d/l the next morning. If you were lucky and didn't loose your connection you might have downloaded it fully. Another fun caveat with computers back then: if you had any issue with your computer hardware tech support would tell you it's a software problem and software tech support would tell you it's a hardware problem. Does anyone remember having to install drivers for peripherals, e.g. printers? 😠
17:38 The lobby was pretty much dead since you were automatically put in one when you entered chat. People would then search the room list and go where they wanted. There was rarely discussion in lobbies.
Ah! Fond memories of dialup Internet, newsgroups, chat rooms! Fun and frustrating times.
It's amusing to see how slow things were when clicking on anything back then.
This man probably din't survive
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The basic content hasn't changed much 😂