Harley Mellifont
Johnny XmasRemember in the 90s when computers screamed every time we connected them to the Internet, and we just thought they were overreacting?
Linux and praxis: part of the resistance 🇵🇸 ☮️@j0hnnyxm4s It was me screaming as I had to connect from one network to Bitnet.
Robert Petersen 
@j0hnnyxm4s @carbontwelve they tried to warn us…but we took away their voice…
okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin@j0hnnyxm4s
The silence of the lans.
The silence of the lans.
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
RedgyVBR 🔻 🇵🇸 🇿🇦 🇹🇷@j0hnnyxm4s 90s my first personal computer was in the early 80s .
John Meadows@j0hnnyxm4s Now the internet screams at us.
Aleksei � Matiushkin@j0hnnyxm4s turns out they weren’t
RealGene ☣️@j0hnnyxm4s
AT&L0&M0
Makes the lambs stop screaming, Clarice.
CautionWIP (he/him) 🏳️🌈🇨🇦🕎@RealGene @j0hnnyxm4s Came here for the Hayes command hot talk…but it’s H1, ngdl.
Mark R. Stoneman@j0hnnyxm4s I always heard it as electronic music, sometimes sing-along.
RealFinoxy@j0hnnyxm4s I still have 28K+fax modem. Land line was taken off by operator this summer.
Faxes are still in use as backup in healthcare and pharmacy
Dave Robinson@RealFinoxy @j0hnnyxm4s
I remember the excitement of downloading at 15MB/hour. My 500mb/s fibre connection is approximately 15,000 times faster.
I remember the excitement of downloading at 15MB/hour. My 500mb/s fibre connection is approximately 15,000 times faster.
Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦@j0hnnyxm4s A computer screamed at me *yesterday*. All I was trying to do was call McDonalds to get them to fix my order, and the phone number went to a modem (probably a fax modem).
debesch@j0hnnyxm4s This is relevant
kaffando@j0hnnyxm4s
We put up with that godforsaken noise for as long as we did without even ONCE thinking "oh, my word...this MIGHT BE A WARNING!"
Not once did we consider that.
We put up with that godforsaken noise for as long as we did without even ONCE thinking "oh, my word...this MIGHT BE A WARNING!"
Not once did we consider that.
wruffian@j0hnnyxm4s
is this why conputer now screaming visually at eyes 😖
is this why conputer now screaming visually at eyes 😖
R. L. Dane 
Marc@j0hnnyxm4s to be fair, each time they successfully connected I was overreacting too.
C. Buck@j0hnnyxm4s They were trying to warn us, but we refused to listen, so...here we are.
Andrew 🌻 Brandt 🐇@j0hnnyxm4s they knew too much
MostlyTato@j0hnnyxm4s
Really, we should have got the message in the 80s when it took five minutes of screaming to load a game from tape.
Really, we should have got the message in the 80s when it took five minutes of screaming to load a game from tape.
ƧƿѦςɛ♏ѦਹѤʞ@j0hnnyxm4s
They still scream but now only bats and dolphins can hear them.
They still scream but now only bats and dolphins can hear them.
Mirco Blitz@j0hnnyxm4s It was not a scream, it was the Song of endless Information.
Enalys 
@j0hnnyxm4s
I guess they are now internally screaming at all the cringe stuff they have to process once we open our web browser.
I guess they are now internally screaming at all the cringe stuff they have to process once we open our web browser.
Bee O'Problem 
@j0hnnyxm4s we still have @scream to fill the void
Halla Rempt@j0hnnyxm4s Yup, I remember.
Simon LucyNow we just have tinnitus and ear worms.
Necromantrix 🏳️⚧️@j0hnnyxm4s they were trying to warn us.
@j0hnnyxm4s My dude. We all turned a blind eye to the Macintosh system error symbol being a bomb with a lit fuse and laughed about it.
This was always going to happen.
Daniel@j0hnnyxm4s it was my mothers scream cause she couldn’t use her phone anymore
David Revoy@j0hnnyxm4s That's what was going on?! I thought they were just trying to invent tektonik music! 
ALT43 
Maddy has MOVED!@j0hnnyxm4s Now we’re the ones screaming!
Khleedril@j0hnnyxm4s I always likened it to plunging a live lobster into boiling water... eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!