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Written by Inverse Phase on 2024-11-28 at 23:25

Was Prodigy an online service, a band, a rapper, a Pokémon series, a Star Trek series, or something else?

Since I have nothing (sorry, I mean EVERYTHING) to do on Thanksgiving, I'm premiering my "online in '89" talk from @demosplash on YouTube in ~2 hours (8pm EST):

https://youtu.be/hUeNciQWysI

[#]BBS #modem #dialup #AOL #Prodigy #minitel #videotex #teletext #history #online #internet #ANSI #ASCII

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Written by krl on 2024-11-29 at 19:01

@inversephase @demosplash obviously a rapper. because the band is called The Prodigy xD

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Written by krl on 2024-11-29 at 19:02

@inversephase @demosplash those who downloaded the wrong songs from Napster know this discrepancy :p

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Written by krl on 2024-11-29 at 19:02

@inversephase @demosplash ... on dialup, so you need 20-30mins per song

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Written by Inverse Phase on 2024-11-29 at 19:30

@krl @demosplash I am indeed old enough to remember that and more (see in the presentation where I mention spending 7-8 minutes to download a single GIF at 2400 baud)

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Written by krl on 2024-11-29 at 19:52

@inversephase @demosplash guess I was lucky that I started using the internet in '98 with 33kbauds (but that remained until 2004)

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