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Mickey7@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 个月前

What happened if the 5th attempt failed?

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What happened if the 5th attempt failed?

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Mickey7@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 个月前
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    Error with winsock.dll 😁

    • macniel@feddit.org
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      blows your fecking socks off :D

    • Toes♀@ani.social
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      8 个月前

      Happy99!!

  • Tiger666@lemmy.ca
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    It hung up and you had to try connecting again.

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    I’d wait a half hour while playing Descent

    • Blaster M@lemmy.world
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      8 个月前

      Descent

      • seatwiggy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        If you’re looking for some nostalgia they made a revival called Overload. It’s $30 of GOG and steam.

        • Blaster M@lemmy.world
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          Already got it

    • NullPointer@programming.dev
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      have you played “overload”?

      https://store.steampowered.com/app/448850/Overload/

      • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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        No but now I’m definitely not going to get anything done this weekend.

    • VoodooAardvark@lemmy.zip
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      A flood of cheat codes just rose up inside of me that I forgot existed.

  • Doorknob@lemmy.world
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    It gave up

  • DrDystopia@lemy.lol
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    Yo mama be screaming for you to get off the damn inter net while she’s on the phone with aunt Heidi, so it’ll it never reach attempt 5.

    Do not tell yo mama that technically you never managed to get on to the “inter net”. Trust me on this one.

  • shalafi@lemmy.world
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    Set your modem string to go for more than 5.

    https://www.computerhope.com/atcom.htm

    • ms.lane@lemmy.world
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      Also add S109=0 to force k56flex, since it’s (like 3kbps) faster than v.90

      • shalafi@lemmy.world
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        Oh! That’s a new one on me! Maybe sounds familiar?

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    The monitor would flicker and in its reflection you would see the shadowy figure take a step closer to you. You dared not turn around but you knew what would happen if it ever got to 5.

  • Acklavidian@lemmy.world
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    I would play MechWarrior 3 on campaign mode and try again in half an hour or however long it took me to die a few times.

    • Yggstyle@lemmy.world
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      Overheating. Shutting down.

  • criss_cross@lemmy.world
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    I was a weird kid and had this growing up

  • Tronn4@lemmy.world
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    The computer would blow up

  • Fit_Series_573@lemmy.world
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    The old memories of seeing this for 5 minutes as a kid just to be able to load the espn homepage to see football scores and a few images

    • meco03211@lemmy.world
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      And the full screen nude that would load from the top down and idle for what seemed like forever just before revealing the boobies.

    • can_you_change_your_username@fedia.io
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      Yeah but they didn’t limit the buffer. You had to wait 15min for it to load but once it did you could watch a whole low quality video file straight through with no shuddering or stopping.

  • Landless2029@lemmy.world
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    There was a time when I connected my nextel via USB to my computer and used it to connect to 36k internet and played runescape all day…

    Good times punching giants for big bones.

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    Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgqEIp2YmtE

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