Sentences with phrase «dial up modems»

Helllooooo 2002!!!!! Next you will want the galaxy dial up modem.

«I was part of a project that involved embedding a software dial up modem into the Nintendo N64 game console,» Gavish said.

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Dial - up modems were still the norm and I needed to scoop up a 9600 bps modem (blazing fast at the time).

Most people laugh nostalgically at the sound of a modem dialing up, but it might be easy to forget that more than half the world still isn't connected to the internet at all.

Unable to afford a high - speed Internet connection, Musk ran the website on his PC using a dial - up modem.

There were no smart devices (let alone smartphones), dial - up modems were the norm, and candy - colored Apple desktop computers were all the rage.

People still booked travel arrangements over the phone, and they connected to the internet using dial - up modems.

Lightning strikes... My career took off when Jeff Bezos personally hired me to handle the publicity and linking for Amazon.com's launch, which I did from my kitchen table on a dial - up modem.

On page 167, he even talks about a dial - up 14.4 modem.

A few years ago, it was easy to set up a firewall or simply unplug the dial - up modem to limit online threats.

During our youth, we could only dream of brick cell phones and high speed Internet that didn't require a dial - up modem.

You know, back then most of us had dial - up modems, there was no Facebook, there was no Twitter — these things were all very primitive.

He estimates the total amount of Internet traffic by looking at the activity of end - user connections, such as dial - up modem lines, DSL, and fiber - optic connections.

THE warbling sound of the dial - up modem could soon make a comeback — but it won't take us back to an era of superslow internet access.

Using a limited 56K dial - up modem and the hacking name «Solo» he found many US security systems used an insecure Microsoft Windows programme with no password protection.

The flashback is due to the speed of today's underwater communication networks, which is comparable to the sluggish dial - up modems from America Online's heyday.

Dell, Hewlett - Packard and other companies dumped the floppy drives and dial - up modems from their standard PCs, too.

This, after all, was the company that famously eliminated floppy drives, CD - ROM drives and dial - up modems.

It's probably been years since you pined for the blistering speed of a dial - up modem and a decade since you wished you had a floppy drive.

The oldest dating site that's still around is Matchmaker, which started as a dial - up BBS in 1985 and ran on a Radio Shack TRS - 80 with modems (above).

The screeching noise of a dial - up modem trying to

It was an early period with slow dial - up modems and text - only interfaces but, despite the technical limitations, it was exhilarating.

The lack of sound - deadening is clearly noticeable; I used to relish the sound of the boxer engine as it reached up to its 7,400 - rpm redline, but now all I hear is road noise — the automotive equivalent of a dial - up modem.

That book has now received such acclaim and support that its first and second volumes are combined into a far more industry standard version released by a traditional publisher; it's even more economical now, as it's no longer being produced in - house at the request of people who didn't want to make dietary decisions for their allergy - stricken kids by booting up the computer and trying to connect to the internet via dial - up modem.

You don't use a land - line phone dial - up modem to connect to AOL to access the Internet anymore, do you?

The 19 standard rooms, with magificent mountain scenery, each boast individually controlled air - conditioning, digital safe, mini bar, trouser press, king size beds with 100 % cotton percale linen, private bathroom with separate deluxe shower and underfloor heating, hairdryer, work desk with internet modem point, tea and coffee making facilities, flat screen TV with cable channels and direct - dial telephones, voicemail and wake - up calls.

Before multiplayer games became the behemoth it is now, many kids found themselves slogging their whole oversized PC rig to a friend's house (this was in the days of dial - up modems) and teaming up to play a game of good old - fashioned Counter-Strike.

There are still aspects of the design I will never ever agree with (class design built on DPS parity, boring loot system, gnomes are not funny, stealth - invisibility is lame and frustrating) and there are still problems that Blizzard need to address (combat animations, content release cycle, and for goodness sake Blizzard we're not on dial - up modems any more, you need to add some basic collision detection between hostile characters).

I could stomach and enjoy Quake 3 Arena over the 33.6 k dial - up modem of a Dreamcast, but the network performance of Call of Duty falls short of that low benchmark.

Most of my red box ninja - grabs were online, with a dial - up modem protecting one from the rage.

While the modem that was included was a simple dial - up model, Sega would also offer a broadband adapter for high speed connections.

Blockbuster stores would download games using dial - up modems and load them onto the cartridge and rent them out.

Although its pishy 33.3 kbit / s dial - up modem made for many a laggy session, it was still many console gamers» first taste of the online multiplayer revolution to come.

If Net Neutrality falls apart and you soon find yourself reading the latest Blawg Review on a dial - up modem, try to remember to keep your electronic vitriol to a minimum.

See also — Nintendo's N64 could have had an embedded dial - up modem, making it the first console to go online and Forget the App Store, Nintendo should build a phone

While working at another company fifteen years ago, Amnon Gavish, the Senior Vice President for Vertical Solutions at Vidyo, has explained how the Nintendo 64 could have had an embedded software dial - up modem and included a telephone jack on the console.

That's likely the only option you'll see here, but you could also allow incoming connections over a dial - up modem if you have the dial - up hardware.

Your smartphone can't act as a dial - up modem, so you're depending on a service's servers to do the heavy lifting.

No, you can't use your smartphone's phone connection as a fax machine or dial - up modem.

He's been around mobile gadgets since the days of Windows CE devices and still has his first Casio Cassiopeia with dial - up modem.

1983: Kyocera produces what is now regarded as the world's first laptop computer, featuring file transfer via dial - up modem.

You have to wait ages to get verified — do you hear echoes of a dial - up modem screeching?

Configured Laptop for AT&T Dialer Software (Dial - up / DSL / Cable Modem), new system configuration and re-imaging workstations for WorldBank employees.

Early POS systems utilized leased line phone modems or dial up systems until 1998 with transition to satellite transmission for credit card processing.

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