My Girlfriends parents still use it. Her dad actually got broadband turned off at his place, as he thought it was too fast for his computer heh. He liked the excuse of taking his time on the computer!
Thankfully it's been quite a while, but it seems like there are some around...when Valve pulled that Portal 2 stunt, there seemed to be a few users on the Steam forums who were using dialup.
" My Girlfriends parents still use it. Her dad actually got broadband turned off at his place, as he thought it was too fast for his computer heh. He liked the excuse of taking his time on the computer! "
lol at that. i just foudn that funny.
no, i don't think there are a lot of people who use dial up. a relative just upgraded to DSL he had dial up. christmas he was saying how it was horrible because of everything being having to take a while to download. poeple were like get DSL. i have DSL.
I do tech support for several ISPs. I assure you, there alot of people that use DU still. Mainly in areas where there is no access to high speed and other rural areas of the US. I cant speak for other countries of course.
Kind of. We only got high speed DSL where I live a few years back and the best we can get is 1mb. I'm fucking exstatic at that though and don't really need much more then that. Short of 720p+ I can stream pretty much every video on a website with no need to que the player, I have no problems playing games online and I can download most game by just leaving my computer on at night while i sleep and have it ready for me to play the next day.
" I do tech support for several ISPs. I assure you, there alot of people that use DU still. Mainly in areas where there is no access to high speed and other rural areas of the US. I cant speak for other countries of course. "
Exactly, it's more for those users out on farms or on very low incomes.
Oh man I remember playing Starcraft and Rainbow Six on my 21.6k connection. Good times, good times. We would have to forward our home phone number to my dads cell phone because the internet took the phone line, then if someone picked the land line up it'd be all like, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING I'M ON THE INTERNET AHAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! GREAT YOU JUST DISCONNECTED ME!"
" I remember that god awful soul crunching noise that the modem would scream out. Terrible... Terrible... "
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Clicked for nostalgia, ah! I still remember how the tune goes. Someone should really write lyrics. Id be pretty stoked. "
Same here, gave me some serious flashbacks to listen to it. man 56k sucked, took me several years to convince my parents we needed a high speed connection
Clicked for nostalgia, ah! I still remember how the tune goes. Someone should really write lyrics. Id be pretty stoked. "
Yes, this :D
Although, I have no idea how writing lyrics for it would work, since it's not exactly very musical. But I'm sure someone creative and awesome could give it a shot.
Huh. That's not how I remember it. First you'd call and get a bust signal. Then 1 minutes later you redial and get another busy signal. On the third time it would ring and then the connection wouldn't establish so you'd hurry and hit re-dial after you're dropped so you didn't lose the line. And then you'd sit and pray that finally this would be the time it would connect. And then you'd rejoice as you could finally reach the World Wide Web. And then five minutes later someone would call, call waiting would cut in and your connection would drop.
I'm sure plenty people use Dial Up on Giant Bomb. There are still a lot of rural area's that have no access to high speed internet, and are forced to endure 56k speeds.
Doesn't dial-up and basic cable/DSL (which is like 50x faster) cost the same nowadays :/ ? Most computers, even from mainstream OEMs don't include dial-up modems anymore.
Currently U.S. Broadband penetration is around 60% (on a household basis) so there must certainly be some people. They are just taking 5 mins to load this thread and give up I guess XD
" Doesn't dial-up and basic cable/DSL (which is like 50x faster) cost the same nowadays :/ ? Most computers, even from mainstream OEMs don't include dial-up modems anymore.
Currently U.S. Broadband penetration is around 60% (on a household basis) so there must certainly be some people. They are just taking 5 mins to load this thread and give up I guess XD "
No dial up can be had for less than $10 a month. And many places just can't get cable or DSL. And satellite might as well be very, very expensive dial up.
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