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 If you can hear this picture, you are my people https://i.nostr.build/tuyaDgiEPChSMFEm.jpg 
 It hurts my ears  
 Music to mine 🐸🤠 
 It's giving me anxiety about waking my parents up 
 Yeah but once I am connected I can do this...

https://m.primal.net/LttC.jpg 

Then when I try to open the internet, I can do this

https://m.primal.net/HiQh.jpg  
 A beautiful cacophony 
 😂 
 Good memories 
 😂🫂🫂🫂🔥 
 The struggle was real 
 you can still get dial up service from sdf.org ☎️ 
not sure why youd want it, but still fun. 
 84 bucks a year sign me up! 
 Mom, hang up! I’m playing UO! 
 You mean, we are old :P 
 load "*",8,1 
 I will never forget Compuserve 
 ₿leeeeeeeeeeeeep

₿looooooooooooooooop

Grrrlrlrrrrrrrrlllrrrrrlllrrrrrrrrrrrrr 
 I am still hear 14.4 dial up modem squelch. 

1GB HD desktop. 

The university Doom nerds were losing their minds 
 Someone picked up the other line and now I got to start the process all over again. 
 That sound...
 
 holy shit, what a time! 
 Those who can’t … let em learn  
 My brain keeps hearing 2400 baud. The 56k handshake was dissonant and terrible, even if the speed was better. 
 Atdt if I recall correctly  
 The realist pain ever. I always needed at least a few attempts.. 
 28.8kbps 
 A simpler age… as long as no one picked up a phone receiver while your real-player wasn’t in the middle of buffering 
 Beeeeep… krrrrrrrrrrshhh… ksh ksh ksh…
Deeeeeeeeee-doo-weeee-ooooo… screeeech-bzzzz…
Ka-ksh ka-ksh… bee-beep-beeeeeeeep… krrrrrrrrshhh!

That unmistakable blend of static bursts, rising whistles, and jagged screeches, as if two machines were fighting just to shake hands 🦾 
 I miss that sound. 
 Straight out of an horror movie 
 Maaa, dont pick up the phone!!! 
 ISDN with Link Aggregation in europe with 128 kbit/s
didn't make any sounds though. 
 Oh, bad flashback... 
 I did dial-up tech support for too long. That sound is burned into by brain. 
 🤣  
 ahh yes. the original dubstep. 
 You mean: biiiiiiii... biru biru biru biru.... biiiii..... ? 
 1995 here we come :D 
 I dialed in to BBS’s on a C64 using a 1200 baud modem.