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dobermanz 6 hours ago

Its 1996 - AOHell is loading, Aphex Twin blasts over 28.8, cordless phones hidden, a pizza is on the way…

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devin 5 hours ago | parent [-]

AOHell didn't take any time to load, and no one was streaming music on 28.8.

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romanhn 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I was definitely listening to RealAudio radio stations over a 14.4 connection.

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sgarland 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I was gonna say, we absolutely had streaming music. Did it suck? Yes, but it was novel, so it was acceptable. I had a 33.6 connection that my ISP eventually upgraded to full 56K, which I discovered by noticing that the dial-up handshake sounded different.

Man… I sound old.

	▲	jamesbfb 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You’ve unlocked a memory for me! I had that same experience when I heard a different series of squeals than normal only to realise the modem had negotiated something faster than 31.2!

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devin 44 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm taking the downvote in stride, but 14.4 and 28.8 RealAudio streaming seems like it lasted all of 3 months and then people had napster and were pulling 96k mp3s.

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