Removed by mod
“Bwong Bwong”? You must’ve had one of those fancy 56kbps modems!
13300 baud clan representing
I remeber 9600 and 14.4k, and 28.8k.
I don’t remember 13.3.
it was similar to this card.
it should have been an ISA card too. I don’t even think my PC had PCI at the time, at least not until the late 90s.
might even still have the card in a box somewhere.
Slow. Getting one line of an image at a time…
Porn downloading line by line… you would invest 30 minutes just to decide you cancel because you’re not into her eyebrows.
In glorious 256 colors @ 800x600
Hey some websites took the effort to progressively encode the images so that they’d slowly blur into place. Of course, you’d never fully know whether an image was worth loading until the very end.
https://youtu.be/AgqEIp2YmtE?is=uJ8W8CjcOYYJY73O
Was a solid job for a few years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xalTFH5ht-k
Dial Up Modem Sounds, from 300 Bps to 56K
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDhyayQ_Rk0
Dialup Modem Handshake | Sound Breakdown & Explained [4K @ 60fps]
