Kaol's sinking hole

[Meeca]

I came across this link for Kaols page. Nice to come across here...

http://web.archive.org/web/200212050959 ... .com/Kaol/

Ah, the memories !

[Black Clay Lord]

Hmm, didn't this page have like some woman being bounced in quicksand on the front page?

[TK421]

Holy crap! This takes me back!


https://web.archive.org/web/20030206221 ... quicksand/

Oh dude. The Quicksand Page in it's original 1995 version was responsible for a lifetime alteration of my universe. As that scrolled down at 2400 baud, my heart was in my throat. I got dizzy. I literally did not sleep for the next three days as I searched the entire web for more. It's been my life's work ever since. Religion would be envious.

You pretty much described my feelings to a "T" when I first stumbled upon a Pete Boggs and Mud Puddle Visuals black and white ad in the back of a Fem Fatales magazine (Which who interestingly enough featured both Brinke Stevens in the ad AND as the cover of the magazine itself).

My first thoughts was "Wait! So this IS a thing? I MUST know more!"

[Theophile1]

Holy crap! This takes me back!


https://web.archive.org/web/20030206221 ... quicksand/

Oh dude. The Quicksand Page in it's original 1995 version was responsible for a lifetime alteration of my universe. As that scrolled down at 2400 baud, my heart was in my throat. I got dizzy. I literally did not sleep for the next three days as I searched the entire web for more. It's been my life's work ever since. Religion would be envious.

You pretty much described my feelings to a "T" when I first stumbled upon a Pete Boggs and Mud Puddle Visuals black and white ad in the back of a Fem Fatales magazine (Which who interestingly enough featured both Brinke Stevens in the ad AND as the cover of the magazine itself).

My first thoughts was "Wait! So this IS a thing? I MUST know more!"

At the risk of being a thread necromancer, what month year was that magazine? We might be able to find it if we look hard enough. Google hasn't turned into TOTAL garbage yet, despite their best efforts.

[TK421]

Holy crap! This takes me back!


https://web.archive.org/web/20030206221 ... quicksand/

Oh dude. The Quicksand Page in it's original 1995 version was responsible for a lifetime alteration of my universe. As that scrolled down at 2400 baud, my heart was in my throat. I got dizzy. I literally did not sleep for the next three days as I searched the entire web for more. It's been my life's work ever since. Religion would be envious.

You pretty much described my feelings to a "T" when I first stumbled upon a Pete Boggs and Mud Puddle Visuals black and white ad in the back of a Fem Fatales magazine (Which who interestingly enough featured both Brinke Stevens in the ad AND as the cover of the magazine itself).

My first thoughts was "Wait! So this IS a thing? I MUST know more!"

At the risk of being a thread necromancer, what month year was that magazine? We might be able to find it if we look hard enough. Google hasn't turned into TOTAL garbage yet, despite their best efforts.

Faq! It was a while ago. We are talking the days of Tower Records still being around BUT…

Let me do some searching. That mag had a pretty good cult following amongst many circles including horror fan fic, wrestling and DiD peeps. I am sure there is a PDF version somewhere out there.

Also, I do have a couple of copies in storage however, I am gonna be real honest with everyone, I am not looking forward to digging for it. We are literally going back nearly 25+ years ago

[BogDog]

For me it was the year two thousand, an Alta Vista CD that came in the mail offering free internet and a blistering 33.6k modem that started this ride. They gave unlimited hook up time and I was on all night 13 hours straight. You KNOW what that every first search word was. Tying up the phone line so I had to log off in the morning eventually. Yep, it was a new world after that. Fun, wild days!.

In time Alta Vista sold their business to NetZERO. Eventually they cut access to 40 hours a month, then eventually 10 hours. I was doing up to 10 a day so it was just a matter of time before the modem got the boot.

[TK421]

For me it was the year two thousand, an Alta Vista CD that came in the mail offering free internet and a blistering 33.6k modem that started this ride. They gave unlimited hook up time and I was on all night 13 hours straight. You KNOW what that every first search word was. Tying up the phone line so I had to log off in the morning eventually. Yep, it was a new world after that. Fun, wild days!.

In time Alta Vista sold their business to NetZERO. Eventually they cut access to 40 hours a month, then eventually 10 hours. I was doing up to 10 a day so it was just a matter of time before the modem got the boot.

To think we were at peak humanity running 28.8 - 33.6 kbps while hoping no one picked up the line while trying to download a 5 minute clip LMAO

[Duncan Edwards]

For me it was the year two thousand, an Alta Vista CD that came in the mail offering free internet and a blistering 33.6k modem that started this ride. They gave unlimited hook up time and I was on all night 13 hours straight. You KNOW what that every first search word was. Tying up the phone line so I had to log off in the morning eventually. Yep, it was a new world after that. Fun, wild days!.

In time Alta Vista sold their business to NetZERO. Eventually they cut access to 40 hours a month, then eventually 10 hours. I was doing up to 10 a day so it was just a matter of time before the modem got the boot.

To think we were at peak humanity running 28.8 - 33.6 kbps while hoping no one picked up the line while trying to download a 5 minute clip LMAO

I recall reading an article that explained why it was impossible for telephone lines to run faster than 9600 so the internet would be a high speed telegraph key for a long time.

[Fred588]

For me it was the year two thousand, an Alta Vista CD that came in the mail offering free internet and a blistering 33.6k modem that started this ride. They gave unlimited hook up time and I was on all night 13 hours straight. You KNOW what that every first search word was. Tying up the phone line so I had to log off in the morning eventually. Yep, it was a new world after that. Fun, wild days!.

In time Alta Vista sold their business to NetZERO. Eventually they cut access to 40 hours a month, then eventually 10 hours. I was doing up to 10 a day so it was just a matter of time before the modem got the boot.

To think we were at peak humanity running 28.8 - 33.6 kbps while hoping no one picked up the line while trying to download a 5 minute clip LMAO

I recall reading an article that explained why it was impossible for telephone lines to run faster than 9600 so the internet would be a high speed telegraph key for a long time.

Probably written by someone either trying to promote ,ethods other than phone lines or trying to justify not investing in better lines. Before my Studio finally got its first satellite connection, around 2014 I thnk, the ONLY alternative was telephone. We paid for a 54k connection but the best actual performance was 27k. To upload new scenes I made periodic trips to my main home in Louisiana, motels, or the Little Rock airport. With that satellite system the speed was much better but its usefulness was hamstrung by a monthly bandwidth cap of 10G. They did turn off the meter from midnight to 5AM every night, so that helped some. After the fire, the new satellite system was marginally better, with the monthly cap at 20G and the same unmetered time slot. Now things are MUCH better. Using fiber optic cable through the electric company I get an actual upload speed of around a half G and no datacap at all. I still pay for more than I actualy get but what I get does the job.

[air36]

Ah…My Webtv days