This is thread where we reminisce about internet connections of the olde dayes.
― kenan, Sunday, 10 June 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)
Nowadays I get, like, 3 megs a second, depending on some factors I don't understand. My first modem was 300 baud, and I was thrilled with it.
― kenan, Sunday, 10 June 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)
Our dial-up connection used to get cut if somebody phoned us.
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 10 June 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)
It took me three days to download my first celebrity sex tape - now these young'uns get it immediately. Just ain't fair.
― milo z, Sunday, 10 June 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.caisse-frigo.fr/images/carte_baud_zoom.jpg
― bobby bedelia, Sunday, 10 June 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)
It took me three days to download my first celebrity sex tape
Which celebrity, may I ask?
― kenan, Sunday, 10 June 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)
Paulette Goddard.
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 10 June 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)
Monsieur Baudot
― Michael White, Sunday, 10 June 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)
and then there's Baud
― bobby bedelia, Sunday, 10 June 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)
I'd much prefer talking about bawds.
bawd a complicated word of uncertain history. First attested 1483, "lewd person" (of either sex; since c.1700 applied only to women), probably from baude-strote "procurer of prostitutes" (1362), which may be from M.E. bawde (adj.) "merry, joyous," from O.Fr. baud "gay, licentious" (from Frank. bald "bold"). It would not be the first time a word meaning "joyous" had taken on a sexual sense. The O.Fr. word also is the source of Fr. baudet "donkey," in Picardy dialect "loose woman." The second element in baude-strote would be trot "one who runs errands," or Gmc. *strutt (see strut). But OED doubts all this. There was an O.Fr. baudetrot of the same meaning (13c.), and this may be the direct source of M.E. baude-strote. The obsolete word bronstrops "procuress," frequently found in Middleton's comedies, probably is an alt. of baude-strote Bawdry "obscenity" (c.1374) is probably from O.Fr. bauderie "boldness." Bawdy is 1513, "of, pertaining to, or befitting a bawd;" usually of language (originally to talk bawdy).
― Michael White, Sunday, 10 June 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)
baudy
― kenan, Sunday, 10 June 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)
Due to board time restrictions, I would log in as soon after midnight as I could for three days straight, to d/l each of the 3 discs for "Space Quest III"
http://www.downloadcentral.dk/images/screenshots/1145-1.jpg
only in BEAUTIFUL 4-COLOR CGA!
― kingfish, Sunday, 10 June 2007 19:11 (eighteen years ago)
GAH, one time my boyfriend and buddy argued in some one-up e-penis++ debate about who started out with the LOWEST BAUD. Like, to impress me. It was the stupidest ramhorn-battling human equivalent I've ever witnessed.
― Abbott, Sunday, 10 June 2007 19:48 (eighteen years ago)
i'm in the middle of watching hackers
"yo check this out guys, this is insanely great, it's got a 28.8 bps modem!"
― sleep, Sunday, 10 June 2007 20:35 (eighteen years ago)
My website was something like http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dungeon/9989/index.htm and I spent HOURS getting it ready.
It was also in the day where you could hotlink to people's photos and they couldn't do anything about it. I had an Angelfire account and used it to store photos which I linked on my Geocities. I remember the day that they fucked it up so you couldn't do that anymore. Worst day ever.
― Will M., Sunday, 10 June 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)
I tihnk my fave from Hackers was "I need a handle! I need to be elite!"
― Will M., Sunday, 10 June 2007 20:40 (eighteen years ago)
"You're in the butterzone now, baby!"
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 10 June 2007 20:41 (eighteen years ago)
I seem to remember that the inclusion of a USB bus is considered really amazing in hackers.
― jim, Sunday, 10 June 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)