Enforcement of 14 yr old restriction

[Jadyreen1282]

So what was the original topic?

Someone complained about chanting girls...
Someone complained about POP Warner girls...
Someone complained about FD being garbage this year...
Someone complained about MNSSHP not being priced...
Someone complained about Mousekeeping stealing their candy bar...
Someone complained about ROL being postponed...
Someone complained about the crappy Norway movie being replaced by Anna and Elsa...
Someone complained about the Dessert Party being too expensive...
Someone complained about construction at WL...
Someone complained about Le Cellier's filet not having mushrooms...
Someone complained about BOG ADR only...
Someone hates Stitch...
Someone hates Ellen...
Someone misses 20,000 leagues...
Someone complained about blah blah blah... I LOVE THIS BOARD... so much stress and so little beer.

 

[ssreward]

AOL and Compuserve were by the minute up until 1996, and you couldn't get on, because of busy signals.

Once I discovered chat rooms, I racked up some serious bills back then.

I never had a problem getting online w/ dial-up...only busy signal involved was for the poor person trying to call my house - probably why my mom got my own phone line around the same time, lol!

 

[ssreward]

Someone complained about chanting girls...
Someone complained about POP Warner girls...
Someone complained about FD being garbage this year...
Someone complained about MNSSHP not being priced...
Someone complained about Mousekeeping stealing their candy bar...
Someone complained about ROL being postponed...
Someone complained about the crappy Norway movie being replaced by Anna and Elsa...
Someone complained about the Dessert Party being too expensive...
Someone complained about construction at WL...
Someone complained about Le Cellier's filet not having mushrooms...
Someone complained about BOG ADR only...
Someone hates Stitch...
Someone hates Ellen...
Someone misses 20,000 leagues...
Someone complained about blah blah blah... I LOVE THIS BOARD... so much stress and so little beer.

Roflmao...luckily I'm covered on beer!!

 

[Magpie]

I never had a problem getting online w/ dial-up...only busy signal involved was for the poor person trying to call my house - probably why my mom got my own phone line around the same time, lol!

Our dial-up worked great, too... I still remember the sweet sound of the modem screaming, every time I dialed in!

 

[KristinU]

As long as we're still way OT...anyone else old enough and early-adopter enough to remember literally placing the telephone handset into the modem, as in two circles on it - one for the earpiece and one for the mouthpiece?

 

[ParrotBill]

As long as we're still way OT...anyone else old enough and early-adopter enough to remember literally placing the telephone handset into the modem, as in two circles on it - one for the earpiece and one for the mouthpiece?

The first modem (modulator-demodulator). It's called an "acoustic coupler." All modems turn data into sound waves and back.

 

[Magpie]

As long as we're still way OT...anyone else old enough and early-adopter enough to remember literally placing the telephone handset into the modem, as in two circles on it - one for the earpiece and one for the mouthpiece?

Sure! And I remember telling all my friends not to call whenever I was planning to try to spend the next six or eight hours downloading something. Because if they did, even if I didn't pick up the phone (!), the download would get cut off and I'd have to start all over again.

I also remember innocently asking a store owner why I would buy the game from him when I could just download it? And he gave me a VERY clear and memorable lesson on where the money goes and how, if I wanted to see more and better games, I needed to actually buy them, so that the game developers could afford to make them. I know it seems obvious in this day and age, when "pirating" is a household word, but it was a brand new concept to me back in the late eighties!

 

[TiggerBouncy]

As long as we're still way OT...anyone else old enough and early-adopter enough to remember literally placing the telephone handset into the modem, as in two circles on it - one for the earpiece and one for the mouthpiece?

Oh yeah... My modem was a whopping 110 baud. The 300's seemed lightening fast. Then they came out with 2400!!!!! Imagine almost 24 times the speed of my first modem, LOL. Got 2 of those 2,400's and started by own BBS - 2 phone lines for dialing in. I was part of the FIDONET network.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet

We could send emails to people around the world! (Took a few days to work it's way over). Played a bunch of cool play-by-net games. You would put in your "orders' anytime during the day, and at night the network would all reconcile. There was some starship game where each FidoNet hub represented a system as I recall. My system was constantly at war with one in Chicago (we were based in Boca Raton, Florida).

Those were fun days.

 

[chelynnah]

Our dial-up worked great, too... I still remember the sweet sound of the modem screaming, every time I dialed in!

Yes, who can forget this

 

[jkstewart1800]

What about Disney Quest? Any one had experience with "dropping kids off"?

 

[jcvalenti]

I'm only 35 but I feel so dated, lol - I remember when AOL charged by the minute, probably about '92

I must be ancient. I'm 44 and when I started going "online", it required dialing a number on the phone headset and then putting it in a coupler so my computer could log in to the BBS. Somehow I was 10 years old but could figure out how to determine if a local access number was a telephone charge or not (Dad would kill me if I racked up a 30 minute charge call), and then handshake the session and get online. Of course, that was about 1982. 7 years later, in undergrad (which I was paying for, even though I was only 17 - amazing considering we're talking about whether 14 year olds can be let out of sight), we had Telnet terminals to access "The Internet" (this was pre World Wide Web and HTML). THAT was incredible. Even then, though, the idea you could stream HD movies on the fly with no latency ... wow. Can't wait to see what's doin' when I'm in my 60s.