I can hardly explain just how crazy warp speed this is to me. I started on my 1200 baud modem, lived through the 'what even is 56k spec'.

My ISP must've turned the #56k modem simulator on.

Pretty snowy pictures by @NuanceRhymesWithOrange

The internet is going backwards.

Doing a web search in 2025 is a nightmare: even if you tell Google/DuckDuckGo to disable AI summaries, most of the top results you get are clearly AI-generated word salads. More than in the past, I am finding myself keeping a curated list of trusted sources, wikis, personal homepages, blogs, microblogs, to fetch information from, rather than relying on search engines. People increasingly host their own stuff, because it has become easier, and digital self sovereignty is being finally seen as something valuable. Archivists scramble to hoard data that might soon disappear. Fediverse means going back from web 2.0 to email, and frankly it's great. Well, we're still being shoved in our throats modern versions of Clippy, but I guess no pain no gain.

Now please bring back BBSs and 56k modems, and the cycle will be complete. I dream of a next era of steampunk utopia where "key exchange" has a very metallic meaning, and steam computers can factorize more than 15.

#ai #2025 #google #web3 #fediverse #digitalselfsovereignty #clippy #bbs #56k #steampunk #crypto #cryptography #quantumcomputing

Au revoir le réseau cuivré que nous ne regretterons pas

Le 56K était une épreuve, l'ADSL un espoir, le VDSL une frustration, tu nous en auras fait vivre, des émotions !

https://next.ink/167166/la-fermeture-definitive-du-reseau-cuivre-debute-cette-semaine/

Quelques souvenirs pour les vieux geeks

Une journée type sur #Internet en 1999

Rappelez-vous 1999, et les débuts du web vraiment grand public. Un an avant l’éclatement de la bulle internet, les modems #56K et les PC de salon se généralisent. Il y avait uniquement 10 millions de sites internet en ligne mais certains resteront gravés dans nos souvenirs d’internautes.

https://www.blogdumoderateur.com/journee-type-internet-en-1999/

#Retro gibts dafür heutzutage noch ein Sinnvollen Verwendungszweck? #DFÜ #Modem #56k #usrobotics

Just investigating unusual traffic hitting our website, and discovered there is this US based ISP that still appears to sell 56k Dial Up internet

https://www.ee.net/dialup.php

From their about page:

“eNet Inc. was founded in 1994 to offer Internet access to the Columbus Ohio area.”

It looks like nothing at all has changed for them since

Hello,
Malgré les tempêtes à la maison, une belle tranche de vie a été dégustée :)
#Glazig #trail #56k

https://youtu.be/wuN-bW_zS0Q?feature=shared #56k

Is it just me or do images load slower than dial up on here now? what do?

@rail @yassie_j I do the latter...

If a site doesn't work on #56k or even #Iridium, I won't use it!

* with few exceptions, after all it's not feasible to wait weeks if not months for a video to get downloaded.

@dataKnightmare https://www.tariffando.it/muore-per-sempre-il-56k-linternet-lento-degli-anni-90-non-esiste-piu-per-tim/ #56K #TIM

En el último capítulo de #56k hablaron del consumo hídrico de estos macroproyectos como el de Talavera.

@CorioPsicologia @fanta

Se puede ver el directo aquí
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1794259897

Wer kann es hören? #damals #56k

#56k ja damals machte internet noch Musik.