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56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience

56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience

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Comments (72)

  • p0w3n3d
    So it seems the pages were loading faster back then
  • jermaustin1
    This is very similar to a project I'm working on called Sim95 [1]. It has an entire networking stack and visual basic style language. You can host your own websites, chat servers, anything you want, and everything runs over a virtual network (websocket that passes through a relay).It has all the warts of the early internet era: you can program a virus, get people to download it, delete their documents, etc., but it also has a lot of the charm, build a website, chat with strangers, enjoy the lack of facebook (for now until someone builds it).1: https://sim95.kippy.io/
  • adrianwaj
    To see sites from back then checkout:https://internethistoryroulette.com/- could be improved whereby the "facts" bubbles change too quickly when turned on.But the idea of placing a random site in an iframe would also work well for Show HN.
  • h4kunamata
    Like others mentioned, the intention is great but too much AI.The icons do not even look remotely close to the dial-up computers.When it disconnects, the reconnection sound is not that at all. Pages load too fast.
  • 101008
    Amazing. When we were all living offline by default, and you had to go online. Now sadly it's the opposite.(When did this change? Around 2012?)
  • artyom
    Lovely. 16MB of RAM in the 90s? That's luxury. And that dial-up sound always takes me back to happier times. Not unlike normal people's childhood songs.
  • VCFundedGenYer
    Vibe coded replica, not the actual OS or programs.Also riddled with inaccuracies.
  • excitive
    This is faster than how I remember
  • illusive4080
    Cool, but webpages load too fast.
  • dnewcome
  • thijsvandien
    Hah, it's funny how the right environment brings back the same old vibes also in chat.
  • mproud
  • uproarchat
    It was fun chatting with you guys :D
  • anon
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  • Dwedit
    Who is upvoting this AI-generated nonsense? This is embarrassingly badly made. We have a solitaire game where you cannot drag the cards (and HTML elements move around every time you click), a pinball game with no gap between the flippers, etc etc etc... Nothing about this suggests a human made it.
  • t1234s
    Dialing in with Terminate and then using lynx was a real experience.
  • singularity2001
    imagine agents getting that fast
  • ticulatedspline
    Heh love that it has the star-field screensaver. nice touch.
  • bonyt
    A while back, I set up a server that limits bandwidth through it to roughly max dialup speeds https://dialup.moveything.com/. It has some gifs, progressive jpegs that are fun to watch load, and a mirror of xkcd.It uses rate limit buckets per-IP on the server side, applied before SSL termination so it doesn't include that overhead. If you open two tabs, they'll have to share. If your behind a NAT, you'll have to share with your NAT-mates. And, it also has headers saying not to cache anything, so you can continue to enjoy the experience.
  • strikefo
    this is great, but everything loads WAY too fast. It took forever to get anything to load back in the day.
  • Vaslo
    A lot of people don’t know how cool it felt to dial into the internet or a service like Compuserve or Prodigy and suddenly have this whole world open up to you. Even at 56k.
  • asxndu
    Why do the websites feel faster than modern internet?
  • anon
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  • ajasmin
    That's surprisingly well done
  • riddley
    Fun and cool. The News made me chuckle.
  • russellbeattie
    I'm sure someone pointed this out in the other thread, but 56kpbs modems essentially didn't exist in 1996. They launched at the end of the year, cost a ton, and the manufacturers hadn't standardized the speeds, so it really didn't matter much as you weren't browsing AOL, MSN or Compuserve with it yet.33.6k.rip is a harder domain name to get though, so I get it.
  • brightball
    Beautiful.Now we just need to bring back BBS’s and the daily turn based games. Legend of the Red Dragon, Usurper, etc.
  • KerrAvon
    Still ugly after all these years. Get a Mac.
  • anon
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  • nico
    That chat was fun, 20 people online!Some were asking: a/s/l hahahaha
  • anon
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  • the_hoffa
    Reminds me of this xkcd comic: https://xkcd.com/3227/Select modem mode and just hurt.
  • rvz
    [dupe] see previous conversations in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340252
  • Xeoncross
    That reminds me. Can we standardize cypress tests to load the website via a restricted speed as one of the tests? Some of of our modern webpages are still slow on the latest iPhone/Pixel/Samsung over 5G.8,600,743 bytes of assets and frameworks later I'm finally able to see your contact-us address.
  • braden-lk
    I miss it.
  • onetokeoverthe
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