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djfraggle t1_j6ar6gj wrote

This makes me miss BBSs. Good times.

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Buck_Thorn t1_j6as9p6 wrote

Now show what it would have looked like without ansi.sys loaded.

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Buck_Thorn t1_j6asmco wrote

---> CONNECTING TO HOST en.wikipedia.org...

--- ABORT - I know you don't want to be redirected to wikipedia.org ---

ROF,L!

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merlinsbeers t1_j6b1jtn wrote

I tried it and it says Google shut down in 2016.

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Sil369 t1_j6bces0 wrote

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mroboto2016 t1_j6bhr1e wrote

I think I've got a 300 baud modem in a box with my Atari 800 XLs.

Dang, now I've got to get a ladder to get them off the loft.

I've still got a sealed AOL box.

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djfraggle t1_j6brtj1 wrote

Replying to RedtheGamer100 (#1,567,908)

Somewhat of a precursor to the internet. People would set them up on their computers and you could call them on your modem. Phreakers knew how to manipulate the phone system to bypass toll charges, so they'd call all around the country for free.

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djfraggle t1_j6bshrk wrote

Replying to merlinsbeers (#1,568,022)

There were no actual pictures in the 80s other than ASCII art and maybe rasters. What you're talking about sounds more like Usenet in the 90s. I must've already been off of BBSs at this point and getting free AOL for a month, then cancelling.

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WikiSummarizerBot t1_j6bzk4f wrote

Replying to merlinsbeers (#1,573,552)

GIF

>The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF; GHIF or JIF , see pronunciation) is a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the online services provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite and released on 15 June 1987. It is in widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability between applications and operating systems. The format supports up to 8 bits per pixel for each image, allowing a single image to reference its own palette of up to 256 different colors chosen from the 24-bit RGB color space. It also supports animations and allows a separate palette of up to 256 colors for each frame.

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chris_4 t1_j6e2aju wrote

look at fancy pants with a color monitor. I don't think I saw a color monitor until 88 or 89. Before then it was monochrome green

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NVLVS t1_j6euc9f wrote

I remember elgoog just showing everything backwards back in the day! I used to use it in school all the time.

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n21lv t1_j6fg7j2 wrote

Now make it look like a Teletext page

P.S. My Google Keyboard's dictionary seemingly knows the word 'Teletext', which is fascinating

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kabekew t1_j6fwsov wrote

Replying to djfraggle (#1,572,363)

Yes, there were pictures! All kinds of paint programs and image formats. My handheld photo scanner saved in GIF format (dithered) but I also remember TIFF, Targa (TGA) formats, and Paintbrush (PCX) formats that could store digitized photo images.

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srh99 t1_j6g4awd wrote

Feeling lucky used to work 80 percent of the time. Now the first 2 pages are crap ads from companies that paid google for placement. How it sucks when google has such a monopoly.

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