Difference between revisions of "Dial-up"

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[[Category:Educational]][[Category:History]]

Revision as of 17:00, 6 August 2006

Instantly recognisable due to the incessant warbling you hear from the grey/black box strung off your computer.

Also discovered to have aided early computer shops in selling replacement keyboards and monitors, in particular to players within league matches with less than 3 minutes to go when the modem drops. Cue tossing of Keyboard through Monitor in fit of rage.

Also surmountable to causing most of the early gamers to declare bankruptcy prior to the invention of 0808 dial-up numbers, due to the dreaded quarterly “phone bill”

Barrysworld ran a very successful Dial-up service which gave 56k players the ability to play with a sub-100 ping.

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