ninja fetus said:
I feel your pain. I had dial-up for 3 years :(
LOL don't insult the slightly Older members of this forum i was on DialUp for 8 years ranging from: 14.4Kbps - 56K V92, then i got ISDN (single 64k&dual 128k) and then i got my own line :
768Kbps Download: 128Kbps Upload
It's getting upgraded to what Waffles getting:
2048Mbps Download: 200Kbps Upload
on March 14th 2005, however i will only be here for 2 weeks after that then i'm off.
You see even back when 56K was the latest speed released the russians / germans / swedish all had 512Kbps - 2Mbps lines..
This is in the early days or IRC, and it wasn't at all stable, especially the servers, so we used to War it out and try to take over their channels - them doing the same to us, they could just packet us or nuke are connections using UCMP packets as their connections were so fast, and of course they could leave it on without time limits or cut outs.
So we used to try to find holes in University Servers / School Servers or any Dedicated Servers at all and install very basic IRC Bouncers & our own versions of Eggdrop IRC bots with automatic TCL scripts that would take over certain channels and monitor them - we'd wait for a Net Split (happening all the time).
*Sighs* - those were the days - & i was only 13/14 at the time :)