Thread 107045104

I remember when we used to disconnect from the internet every night.

the terminally online unemployed ruined the internet.
Change my mind.

I turn my router off every night. It's probably a chink botnet anyway.

>>107045104 (OP)
IME and all that jazz aside, how would your computer remain connected if you turn it off?

>>107045104 (OP)
epic media controls on the keyboard

>>107045104 (OP)
I still do o_o

>>107045193
do you remember that era of Compaqs?

I do still turn off my desktop PC at night when I go to bed, why exactly wouldn't I?

>>107045104 (OP)
>hide desktop icons
>autohide taskbar
>"it's now safe to turn off your computer" as the wallpaper
Fun times.

>>107045104 (OP)
Ill never understand why those old computers needed primed using an anal defibrillator. Its not just being able to turn on your computer without getting a prostate exam every time

>>107045125
Phone posters.

>>107045266
And the amount of times a Compaqs I had to fix. Don't miss those days.

>>107045104 (OP)
I remember when telescammers try to call you and you lose internet connection.

>>107045440
Indians*

>>107045309
The government literally knows the exact color of the shit we take in the morning but this thread pretends for some reason they're totally hidden

>>107045104 (OP)
>I remember when we used to disconnect from the internet every night
actually not an issue since my Dad was as big of a nerd, if not an even bigger nerd than i am. We had an AT&T satelite with a line just for internet and for him to run his giant at&t unix box on wheels bulletin board system. The satelite dish was ~5ft wide, i dont know much about it desu it was mounted on a pole 100ft from the house. We had a seperate line for the house phone

>>107045104 (OP)
i remember when we didnt have a choice

>>107045125
we were always the core of the internet

>>107045440
phone posters, i.e. normies didn't create the problem, they just aggravated it.

>>107045787
now we're cooking, here's the root of the issue.
browns from the east and "content creators" from eastern europe, hungry for money.

>>107045266
i was an eMachine man myself.
t. poor

>>107047989
Sometimes my mom was expecting a call from someone she didn't want to talk to so she had us dial up and play games for the rest of the night to get the line busy.

>>107045104 (OP)
I had two phone lines so it didn't interfere with the main line but internet was billed by the hour in the early days sp couldn't stay on all the time. nor was there any reason to unless you wanted to receive email in your client immediately.

>>107045266
clones were for mom and pop normies. real O/G/s built their own IBM compatibles. I was pulling apart and assembling 386, 486 and pentiums as a kid.

>>107045125
Newfag

>>107045266
>do you remember that era of Compaqs?
I remember all beige computers, even the keyboards and mice.. I remember the time before usb.

>>107045104 (OP)
'member when internet appliances were a thing?

>>107050470
The pizza key would make a nice super key.