AOL Dial Up Internet, And Video Game Demos

[Snorlaxbelly]

I remember downloading demos on my PC back in the day when I had dial up internet. Would takes hours, and sometimes, more than a day. I would have to use download managers (lmao, remember those?) because if someone called you would get kicked off, and would have to restart the download all over again.

I would treasure these demos like they were the holy grail, and play them over, and over again.

Halo, Unreal Tournament 2004, Postal 2, Soldier of Fortune, Thief The Dark Project, just to name a few.

Played the hell out of them, especially the Halo demo, Blood Gulch deathmatch was where it was at.

 

[bjork]

I used AOL dialup for a good while, but the main thing I downloaded from AOL itself were photos and wav files, themed desktop icons, that sort of thing. I did download mame roms via dialup through and I do remember X-Men vs Street Fighter taking over 24 hours.

 

[nobitakun]

Never had AOL because I am from Europe, but we had our own dial up connections. And, as stupid as it may sound, it was one of my happiest times on internet. I used to download tons of MP3 through Napster, talk with people around the world with Odigo and playing Ragnarok Online with it.

On 2005, I moved to ADSL and everything changed dramatically. But during my ADSL life, many things were changing and closing and after a while I started to think internet was being downgraded, getting worse and worse every year. The cheerful and happy internet became grey.

Nowadays, it barely keeps anything of its essence, thanks to overprotective and controlling laws that tell people to avoid other people because of being potential criminals. And the worst thing is that human beings like that are all over internet, so it's true. Even if 1/10000 people on internet are criminals of any kind, they potentially affect the rest 9999 people and their thinking.

 

[Snorlaxbelly]

Never had AOL because I am from Europe, but we had our own dial up connections. And, as stupid as it may sound, it was one of my happiest times on internet. I used to download tons of MP3 through Napster, talk with people around the world with Odigo and playing Ragnarok Online with it.

On 2005, I moved to ADSL and everything changed dramatically. But during my ADSL life, many things were changing and closing and after a while I started to think internet was being downgraded, getting worse and worse every year. The cheerful and happy internet became grey.

Nowadays, it barely keeps anything of its essence, thanks to overprotective and controlling laws that tell people to avoid other people because of being potential criminals. And the worst thing is that human beings like that are all over internet, so it's true. Even if 1/10000 people on internet are criminals of any kind, they potentially affect the rest 9999 people and their thinking.

Yo, I get you, those were the golden days of the internet, everything was so simple. I used to download MP3's like crazy too, from random anime sites and stuff, would take 20-30 minutes for one song, I treasured each track I downloaded lol

 

[nobitakun]

Yo, I get you, those were the golden days of the internet, everything was so simple. I used to download MP3's like crazy too, from random anime sites and stuff, would take 20-30 minutes for one song, I treasured each track I downloaded lol

Exactly! we valued more the content we downloaded, because it was not so easy to find like now and it took so much time to download. Everything counted, every download was a joy we were waiting for.

 

[qw90700]

Well I was glad we had video game magazines that gave tons of demos on discs, it was a torture to even download a picture and music files lol.

 

[nyka]

I remember those AOL internet sent out these 30 days of internet cd's that we never used...except as frisbees for some reason ^^;

 

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[MegaDrive1987]

We started off with AOL dialup, I remember downloading Vietcong Multiplayer demo from FilePlanet and it took hours!!

 

[qw90700]

I remember those AOL internet sent out these 30 days of internet cd's that we never used...except as frisbees for some reason ^^;

The first time I saw a CD it was when I found one on the ground without any label whatsoever. I thought they are "weapons of spies" to hit people who are very far away from me like a boomerang!!! Then I found lots of CDs around which no one knew where is the source of these shit. The streets were dangerous so I needed good weapons that's not banned yet. That's why I came up with "pants with disc pocket" idea!!!:

I was like high tech ninja and shit!! And then I found a better weapon:

It was a two-handed high tech saw weapon thingy!!! I was hanging it on my back like a witcher!!! Soon after people started to call me "Disc-Man" who is a superhero or some shit but I was actually walking around like that and for joke I was throwing discs to my buddies lol, had no intention with crime-fighting at all!! But then they had to ban discs because it reflects sunlight a lot and thus it causes traffic accidents, so we reverted back to cassette and cartridge technology and skipped to the internet!!! True story. lolol