mr_daemonSo, 86box has gotten General Modem Emulation in 4.2, and you can absolutely dial up with SLIP to access the internet over SLiRP, and it absolutely works.
Dialog Boxes you have not seen in Quite Some Time, volume 5.
Kata đ@mr_daemon For some reason, I kept this screenshot from 2000-07-12. Probably because I was so hyped that I could be online for 4 hours (!) and download 40 MBs (!), as this was our first flatrate internet access. đ I think this was it (german article from May 2000): https://www.pcwelt.de/article/1125263/sonnet-flatrate-fuer-79-mark.html
I donât remember why it shows 115.200 bps on my shot. Was this ISDN channel bonding (we had that for a while)? Or was it a modem and thatâs just the speed of the serial link? No idea anymore how any of this worked. đ€
Bart Allen@movq @mr_daemon that's really awesome you kept that. In 2002 my family jumped straight from 64k to 10Mbps coax baby! Still loved explaining it to my parents "You mean we can be on the phone at the same time as using the Internet?!"
@barryallen2023 @movq When I moved to broadband from 56k v90 dial up, just having the internet "be there, always" took some time getting used to.
This is a thing I think of often. Like how when I first got on at 28.8 bauds, "I think I'm going to go SURF the INTERNET today!" was an event that you prepared for.
It felt like a grand adventure. No wonder I got hooked to the idea of computers talking to one another.
@mr_daemon Absolutely, going online was so special. Talking to computers on the other side of the globe? Whoa.
I tried âsimulatingâ the experience 2 years ago (got the idea from https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2022-07-01-oldcomputerchallenge-v2-rtc.html). While it didnât spark a lot of nostalgia (the novelty is long gone; I even included the modem dial-up sound in my setup, which was cute, but it doesnât mean anything anymore), itâs still an interesting experience. Makes you realize how much time you spend online doing ânothingâ. 20-30 minutes a day to send/receive messages/emails and looking up infos was more than enough. đ€
@movq I did have a moment trying this where I was done doing the online thing on my Windows 98 VM and thought "Oh yeah, better disconnect", which is an old reflex I hadn't felt in quite some time, and highlighted this.
In the late dial up era, most of my time online was hours spent playing MUD/MUCK systems (text MMOs, more or less) while going through my GetRight download queue very slowly, one megabyte at a time.
Both are similar, yet different to today, somehow.