If 12 modems simultaneously handshake and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound? You’re damn right it does and probably shattered glass too.
Can I daisy chain multiple pc 98s together to make something that surpass modern windows.
K…bps
Welcome to 1999.
And yet sometimes even with modern file sharing hosters I can only get 100KByte/s connections.
That’s still faster than this cluster.
Here’s the money shot: https://youtu.be/LZ259Jx8MQY?t=1240
I wish they had used a better mic but that was like giving my soul a really good scratch.
The whole video was really fun to watch!!
The hearing of 3 observers was lost during the handshake.
This was similar to a trick that a few smaller (less serious) hobby-ISPs did back in the days of 14.4k/28.8k modems to take advantage of the “reasonably priced” business plans for ISDN. They’d register multiple businesses at a single address to qualify for the plans, then balance new egress connections across the pool using squid and other magic. Fun times…
I imagine it sounds amazing
Reeeee… BONG… Bong… ffffffftttttttttt… Bung…
Fffffffffftttttttt…
Kilobits or Kilobytes?
Little b is bit, big B is byte
I remember doing this with NetZero accounts. You could trivially hack out the ads, and dial in-twice (if you had two phone lines), and do the bonding. Free slightly less shitty internets. Very useful for Napster and LimeWire back in the day.
More like masochists than enthusiasts.
They’re the same picture.
Glad to see the USR Courier was used here. A venerable workhorse.
I can’t seem to get rid of my last one. Sentimental, I suppose.
Who knows what might still be functioning after the apocalypse.
I hate to be that guy, but… Is it time to get DSL?
now stack ‘em on that poptart borzoi
I bet you could get slightly quicker speeds if they ran a pihole or something to block ads.
This is kind of an interesting idea. I wonder if it’s feable to reuse all the old 56k modems?
Even 20 years ago you needed ad blocking to make sites load a bit faster on dial-up. Now you would need no script and an image blocker too.
Semi-barely-related thing that popped into my brain on imagining the sound of this;
… the UNATCO theme from Deus Ex played by an ‘orchestra’ of floppy drives.
On an even unrelateder note but tangentially semi-related to your comment, may I present:
[the user] symphony for dot matrix printers
(I actually have a t-shirt from this artist - saw them at mutek festival in Montreal in 2000something.
Exquisite.
I absolutely love everything and anything that can make music out of something that isn’t intended to make music.
