Growing up with Dial Up internet
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 พ.ค. 2020
- An animated story of my experience growing up with dial-up internet.
This is my first animation on TH-cam! Hope you like it!
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I'd leave the cursor on the loading bar of flash games so I could keep track of how much of the game loaded when I checked back hours later. Those were the days.
damn🤣🤣🤣
I remember having dial up in the early 2000's and trying to download the trailer to Lord of the Rings and it would take HOURS. Kids today will never know!
Or looking up an image for it to take 15-20 min loading lol nostalgic times
Kids today have a similar experience downloading a 200G game unless they have fibre of course because that would be done in like 30 minutes tops.
I remember me and my friend waiting for a Newgrounds video to load and we literally made dinner and ate it then came back
IKR, so cuteeee
I was born in the Mid Late 90’s 1997 grew up in the Millennial Era with Dial Up internet and rap DVDs 📀
The Internet was very primitive in the 90's. Websites used to be made from basic html only maybe with few css.
While loading basic text is very fast, any type of media would load ludicrously slow, that's why every developer compressed the hell out of their early 2000's flash game.
I remember using this dial up once when i was a kid and we were visiting some relatives and they had a computer connected to a phone. When i tried to play something i just got to stare at the loading screen for very long time.
Dial-up was usable up until around 2002/3 and then broadband started to become more of a need to have than a nice to have.
I actually used dial up to watch this video. It did have to be 144p and it took 5 minutes to load
I remember it took me several hours just to download the original Doom and Doom II. Now it only take me a second.
I remember having to delete my brother's baseball game so I could play Master of Orion 2 because each of the games took up almost half of the 1GB hard drive!
Relate! I thought waiting several hours for music downloads, youtube and games on cartoon network to load was normal back then. Haha we now have FTTH internet. Good ol' days
I have a certain fondness for dial-up, noisy as it was. We got our start with dial-up and when our relatives came by and made some noise, the phone would lose all cohesion with what it was getting, so gramps would have to start all over as garbage filled the browser's window. We soon got broadband and I toasted the family laptop playing Shockwave games on the daily.
Dial up internet: let me sing you a song, SHHHH REEEE AEAEAAA GNIIIIII UREEEE KAKAKA
I first got online in 1996 and yeah...this is about accurate. But that sound is weirdly nostalgic.
...and yes, I DID have my internet cut off by somebody picking up the phone. Oh, god, you dodged a bullet there if you never had to deal with that. Oof.
This is accurate I’d say. In 1995, I got my first computer. I was 20. It ran Windows 95. The computer took about 5 minutes to boot up. I’m not joking. The internet was slow in my days compared to now. I lived in an apartment on my own at that time. I had two lines. An actual phone line and a computer line. Just incase my friends called me and I didn’t want the internet to get cut.
At least in '95 though, the websites were small enough that dial-up was usable. It was mostly text with small gifs and jpgs and midis. Very little video online back in those days, from my memory. Website backgrounds were either solid colors or a small GIF tiled. Plus, I don't really remember any other options prior to around 1999. That was when cable modem first became advertised where I lived.
@@bchristian85You got cable in 1999?! We still don't get cable where i live! Satellite is the only option other than dial up where i live.
Unfortunately I didn't have it in 1999, but I remember advertisements for it in my area and my 8th grade classmates bragging that they could download an entire song from Napster in only a minute or two, something that took around 30 minutes on dial-up.@@lightyagami3492
Thanks for a trip down memory lane. I found your vid while looking for internet history info for my son. Now if you want to talk about really old, we didn't get a TV until I was 4yo, no phone line at all until I was 16yo, first cell phone at 22yo, and finally internet dial up at 24yo. I can still remember listening to Sesame Street on the radio. :)
Literally, you're a lifesaver! I couldn't understand what the dial up connection is! You gave the simplest description ❣️
Glad it helped!
my first modem was a 2.4 kbps modem (2400 baud) and internet wasnt really there yet. Only BBS where you could dialin.
But later with time I also remember how I got faster and faster modems.. my fastest dialpup was a 56k modem. It was still slow compared to today speeds but still a lot faster than previous modems.
I got my first internet connection in the late 1990s and it was so much better than the BBS (text only stuff). You could click on links and there were images! Later even animations (gif) and music. It was so cool that I remember many sites had at least one animation (usually more) and a background midi music. Sites were looking like crap back then, everyone was playing around with what was possible with HTML. Videos were not that common.. video files were very big and you could only download the videos (usually tiny, highly compressed avi files) video streaming was not there yet. But audio streaming was possible. I remember how I was listening to live radio stations around the world using winamp (shoutcast) or real player...
It was slow af but everything was new and revolutionary. Most people were happy back then (I write about late 90s and early 2000s) Today the internet is not that cool anymore. It feels just normal... and kinda boring.
Raise your hand if you used AOL. Chatting was so much fun and it was quick. I would ask for the persons pic but it would load in like 3 mins. Lol You new generation, be thankful you don’t have to be patient.
Even though I didn’t have dial up, I still relate because of our terrible internet. It took about 5+ hours to download minecraft alpha or something, and it took 4 MINUTES to boot up. The internet was pretty slow but, some of the site’s data were sent to RAM so if you used a website more, the faster it got. All of that pain, when we realised that hard drive C: was busted and ran at full speed ALL THE TIME….
Lol that's insane a minute and a half just to search something up
waiting the whole night to watch youtube video the next morning, leaving a 2min video loading on 144p going to dinner and comming back to wait another 15min for it to load, who can relate
Thank You for the Memory🖥️ I just finished watching this video with my 12 yr-old Son🤓
Used this to explain to my kids. Loved it! And you’re cooler and younger than I am so it was very helpful 😂 thank you!
Very Well Done Dude
I Love Your Anime Skills
I had 80kbps internet, now I have 10mbps, I fully understand the feeling (I think dial up was about 2-25kbps)
Sounds like you grew up using dial-up past when most people had already stopped using it. It was driving me crazy even by 2004. Hughesnet is the worst and the data limits were so low it was almost criminal. It was 250 MB/day at one point when I was looking at getting it. Satellite sucks compared to cable or fiber, but without the data limits it would have been a usable alternative to dial-up.
We managed to score a 150 GB per month data cap with our satellite internet and STILL went over two or three times a year. The arrival of fiber internet was 100x more bandwidth and a 100x lower latency; that meant games could update in minutes rather than hours, and multiplayer games could be competitive with the lower latency. While not as big of a leap as dial up to satellite, fiber was a big enough improvement that I'll never consider living somewhere without a wired connection
I grew up with dial-up, but I'm 30, so when we had it the internet was boring for kids anyway, and we didn't have to use it for homework or anything. And then... Ask Jeeves arrived!
Wasn't Ask Jeeves the first search engine you could actually ask questions to, like "how do you conjugate verbs in German"? Back then even Google couldn't understand that and you had to search using phrases like "German verb conjugation". Leading to jokes about how men Google vs how when Google - but now you can ask any search engine a question in plain English!
It’s Nice Stevie keep it up God bless!
I grow up in the early 2000’s and clearly remember when dial up was a thing I remember that it took me around five minutes to download a single 5 seconds mp3 file
Until the age of 12 (2010) I got a broadband Internet and I was like: hell! It’s time to rock!
And when my friends tell me about Steam I tried to download track mania nations forever it took me literally 3 days to download a thing that I can download today in like a 30 seconds thank to Fiber
I remember getting a Steam account in 2004 in order to download an update to Half Life. Then when they started selling other games on there I was like lol, no, I want a CD that I can hold in my hand and I don't have to worry about some online distributor going out of business! So I didn't use it for a couple years until it became mainstream, but I still have an almost 20 year account! And now I don't want to buy games on CDs because even if my PC still had a CD drive I would worry about losing the CDs and not being able to reinstall my games after replacing my PC or reinstalling Windows! Oh yeah, people used to reinstall Windows all the time back then...
Here in Post-Soviet Russia, we had the other stuff in mind, this one was called "lokalka". Basically, some computer nerds (usually a bunch of people in their early 20s living in a single or neighboring apartment buildings) decided: wouldn't it be nice if we'd arrange a local network, of course, with a fair share of services within it, like, file server, message board, game servers, probably something else, and let anyone interested use it, usually for some kind of favor. Sounds boring, but some people who actually been there these times had A LOT of fun with them (as long as maintainers knew what they were doing, which they were not sometimes).
cool video and I'm glad I don't have that sounds like some kind of nightmare, if I would hear that as little kiddo I would have nightmares from that noise
The good thing about dial up is that when you decide to go to a website and then it starts loading for a very long time, you can have enough time to do other things like making dinner spending time with friends or family or even cleaning up the house to name a few things!
Just found this channel tbh you make really good content keep up the good work 👍🏽
Appreciate it! Working on a new video, so stay tuned!
Satilite Internet sounds cool but sucks
Elon musk: I’m about to do what’s called a pro gamer move
This guy's video about dial-up is true it took one month to download Dead Island Riptide from PlayStation Network with my satellite internet and that was when my internet was reduced to 127 kilobytes per second it's an 8 GB game that took 1 month to download
Me: Just got my starlink kit.. 1/.25Mbit to 100/10Mbit
@RED SEA GAMING kilobits not kilobytes there’s a difference one kilobyte is easily to 8 kilobytes
Great stuff! 🔥
Good animation and very entertaining video. I remember dial up internet and how broad band made it so much better to use the Internet.
Yup I remember it too first had it in school then got it at home and you could not use the phone if someone was on the PC so if your mom or dad was trying to make a call they’d be like get of that computer I need to make an important call lol
This was really GREAT! THANK YOU
So here’s something… dial up internet still exists today! Just the other day, I got my ps2’s modem to connect to a server, but there’s nothing to do, because ps2 servers aren’t up anymore.
I can confirm the last time I had a dial-up internet plan was in 2019 also there are even bbx servers that you can still dial into with a telephone terminal if you want to
My very first internet connection was 33.6k dial up and that was considered fast back in 1996. I was 10 years old at the time.
I remember dial-up. Got AoL right along with it. Great times. Games back when Dial-up was the ONLY thing that was around loaded faster than 12 hours thankfully. I do remember pictures loading from the top down. Big grey box that slowly revealed a picture. My childhood.
omg same. but that was in the 2010s. yes we are that behind when it comes to tech. my first internet was a shitty usb drive that somehow conected to the internet, barely worked and had limited data
@@Gigachad-mc5qz broo, i used to have the same thing!
I remember downloading a 200MB game development tool in the early 2000s and it literally took all day. Back then you'd use a download manager so if your mom picked up the phone you could resume the download later. Now I download 1GB game updates in minutes!
Main thing that makes the internet slow about it is the modulate demodulation the modem does to turn the data into audio tones tbh
I remember the time when I had a 36.6kbps modem and it was the fastest internet. Faster than anyone I knew had. :D
This channel is so underrated.
Snail bob, now that bought some serious nostalgia
DSL also use phone lines, but different channels, in a band that is broad, which allows to more data transfer and you still can use the narrow band to make phone calls in the same line.
The ISP's switched a few years ago to VOIP so they could use the now free telephone frequencies for faster internet speeds beside VDSL.
whoa dude did you know like, I lived in that EXACT house in your video dude? Whoa we must have a connection of some sort that’s so rad dude
I remember being freaked out by the noise as a kid
Damn you have potential!
I subbed 😀
I remember those dark days when you needed to summon a demon to access the very very very slow internet, although I played a decent amount of games on the Cartoon Network site (flash games). Here in Brasil I had to wait until saturday after 2 PM and sunday (the whole day) to use the internet because those days were cheaper to access it. Crazy times! I also remember the first broadband connection at a whopping 2 mbps. That was crazy fast for the time but there was no youtube back then so I basically downloaded a bunch of stuff (movies, games, books) using this connection.
Lol summoning a demon
Back when I had dial up the one thing nice about it was there's no what's your Wi-Fi password or do you have Internet or any of that you could be online within minutes as long as they had an active phone and you had a local phone number. And at the time pretty much everybody had a landline so everywhere. You could even load up pages that were far less bloated and resource intensive in a handful of tabs disconnect and continue reading off-line. I'm now sitting here with cable 250D/25U but I still long for the days when a thin light cable with 1 pairs connected you to the Internet and it was relatively easy to extend and Wander around the house, or if you were Creative the Yard. and certainly no distance limitations when you're already miles and miles away from the CO. I used to live in the middle of nowhere it was great at least I got a consistent 28.8kbps connection every time no matter anything, I once get 33 something. And don't get me started on satellite the previous gen I think we had Gen 2 and thay came out with gen 3 and a certain Hughesnet had an even smaller data cap and horrible policies......
That modem noise is AWESOME
Man when I was 6 there wasn’t even internet. I remember getting the first AOL discs in the mail.
I know what dial-up is, since I have learned about it, but never experienced it. I have heard though it’s really slow, and I have looked up what it sounds like. I feel like I would go crazy if I had to use it.
I'm 31 and yea, dial up was pretty evil, God help you if you had a phone call too.
Great vid kid. Just educated my kid with this
Dude your extremely underrated. You definitely deserve more.
And even though I didn't grow up with dial-up internet (I was born in the mid 2000s)
I can't imagine how much of a struggle it was loading a simple webpage.
The algorithm may have caught you, great video
here is a fact,the sound the computer makes for dial up is your modem chatting what it can do to your isp,then the modem and isp plan how much data,and then check the phone line,then send what you were loading
This is awesome
I love modems!
If you drew this then i hope you will become famous.
I’m in the middle of nowhere Wisconsin and the internet is still not good 😂
nice animation
love it
Also known as the world wide wait. And it sure enough was :)
and Lord help you if you didn't have a "phone splitter" plugged into the phone jack and someone called while you were online with dial-up
Your lucky kid,,I had a party line and didn’t get cable until I was 18..
“It was so slow”, not to people that never had anything like it before it. I love seeing people loose their shit when it took 10-15 seconds for their computer to preform a required task. It’s actually sad people don’t have this appreciation anymore.
underrated channel
Me watching this In 144p be Like: you're Just Like Me!!!
Yea for Real im watching this In 144p
Even these days in 2024, if you're on a 5g cellular data plan that has a soft cap, the speed is reduced to 120 kilobytes per second or essentially twice the speed of dial up
Good video mate fair play , i grew up with it , then we upgraded but it was still going through the phone line. We was on world at war zombies on round 50ish and my mum picks the phone up. Boom it lagged me out the game and ended the game and the stats didn’t update
Man.. sometimes dial up is still faster then my internet at times
I used to work from home for this company that required me to connect to a VPN to do my work. The VPN was horribly slow. Even if my home network is close to a gigabit, as soon as I'd connect to the VPN, it would drop to anywhere between 100kbps (barely faster than dialup) and 10Mbps (2003 era wifi).
The next gens may just flat out say what is dial? Cuz they will probably just use super advanced knock your socks of tech
My dad told me he once took my little sister to a children's museum and they had a rotary phone there. He asked her if she now understood why it's called "dialing" a phone. She still didn't get it...
Dude is 2G faster than dial-up? that was my
first internet on a cell phone?
netflix back then was watching gif animations sent over email chains
Don't forget getting viruses from those email chains!
45 likes and zero dislikes, that’s a good ratio.
Oh Yeaaaaaaa
Dialup Internet is so slow that it took all day to update your computer.
For me when I had satellite internet it was 150 for 20gb. One update from a phone, computer, or for a game would wipe that out.
Well done!!!!!
Thank you!
middle of nowhere wisconsin turns out to be literally like 10 miles from my house
i had DialUp in my childhood too because xDSL wasnt avariable in my city. when i got fiber internet it was a revival
Amazing
it didn't had dial up but i remember that even after this era internet was still slow i couldn't watch a TH-cam video without it immediately begining loading for 5 minutes then 2 seconds after load again for 5 minutes then the quality of gets worst and 1 minute later is loading again
I remember dial up internet we only had one line. Born in 1986
You being amazed by fast internet when you were only six…those a few years younger never had the struggle. I think I was about 20 before ADSL was a thing 😂
Your animation is pretty good, I hope you'll get a lot of sub :)
I don't have 10 month late, It's just *Phone dialing sound starts*
We need more videos,,u explain nicely
me watching on fiber optic internet
it was good for the time. it was noisy. but unlike you i didn't even know there were other forms of internet at that time so my expectations were pretty low. it was until 2009 when i first heard what youtube even was.
bro u don't remember the dial up
the dial up sound played just when u connect to the internet , not every time.
if that modem noises annoy u , can just press mute on the dial up modem
nice channel, this channel appered on my home lol
Nice video!
I thought this was a big TH-camr but no, keep the stuff going!
Same
Still faster then what I get after my data volme is used up (32kbit/s). (On my Phone)
My internet fluctuates. Sometimes it'll be in bytes per second, a lot of the time it'll be in the kilobytes, just like using dial-up. Let us say our little mobile hotspot is mediocre. Lol, I was downloading 60 megabytes and it took over 14 minutes and it said that to download 600 megabytes was going to take over an hour, like multiple hours. Well, we do use a mobile hotspot that uses mobile data, so...
if you had dial-up internet you couldn't watch this vid-
(internet slowed)
12 hours connected? Didn’t your parents need to pay per minute?
phone unlimited in USA
Nah dial-up phone numbers are usually toll-free
Yeah, they usually had a local number you could call to connect, and local calls were unlimited. Wow, that brings back memories of my dad talking on the phone with his brother who actually did live in Wisconsin and my mom would remind him to get off the phone after a while because long distance calls were expensive!
Can someone help me write about this? I really need it for my school,im the one to report what dial up is and i suck at explaining so...please?
I Have Charter Spectrum Wi-Fi
IT'S FIBER OPTIC!!!
I can relate