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Discussion => Off topic => Topic started by: metta on August 14, 2012, 08:54 pm

Title: Surfing with Tor reminds me of 28kbs dial up ... ;-)
Post by: metta on August 14, 2012, 08:54 pm
I know there's a vendor selling some method to speed up Tor; how much better is it?

Visiting this site reminds of the early days when I first discovered porn online.
Title: Re: Surfing with Tor reminds me of 28kbs dial up ... ;-)
Post by: Whothefuckisthis on August 14, 2012, 08:58 pm
Haha wow you old. ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Surfing with Tor reminds me of 28kbs dial up ... ;-)
Post by: metta on August 14, 2012, 09:03 pm
yeah, well, we all get to go there if we're lucky ...

I think this site is causing me to regress to my twenties, taking on all sorts of bad behaviors.
Title: Re: Surfing with Tor reminds me of 28kbs dial up ... ;-)
Post by: spasmolytic on August 14, 2012, 09:07 pm
I think this site is causing me to regress to my twenties, taking on all sorts of bad behaviors.

I'm in the same boat, but more like my late teens though. :D
Title: Re: Surfing with Tor reminds me of 28kbs dial up ... ;-)
Post by: NFHC on August 14, 2012, 09:38 pm
You know what they say, good things come to those who wait.
Title: Re: Surfing with Tor reminds me of 28kbs dial up ... ;-)
Post by: Whothefuckisthis on August 14, 2012, 10:11 pm
yeah, well, we all get to go there if we're lucky ...

I think this site is causing me to regress to my twenties, taking on all sorts of bad behaviors.
Haha That's sick! Although I can't really foresee anything for my generations future that will amount in me or others regressing that could be better than SR! ;D
Title: Re: Surfing with Tor reminds me of 28kbs dial up ... ;-)
Post by: HammerHead on August 14, 2012, 10:31 pm
Haha definitely. It gives me a warm fuzzy nostalgic feeling though.  Seeing website visit counters on the bottom of some of the pages brings the laughs.
Title: Re: Surfing with Tor reminds me of 28kbs dial up ... ;-)
Post by: CaptainTrips on August 15, 2012, 01:22 am
lol this made me laugh  :D very very accurate parallel my friend
Title: Re: Surfing with Tor reminds me of 28kbs dial up ... ;-)
Post by: superbob4529 on August 15, 2012, 02:03 am
Also, I tell my friends a Tor Portal is a lot like Yahoo in1998... but with more questionable stuff. ;)

The design, simplicity and latency is very characteristic of the early internet though, and it does make my nostalgic. :)
Title: Re: Surfing with Tor reminds me of 28kbs dial up ... ;-)
Post by: Ahoyhoy on August 15, 2012, 08:47 am
Haha wow you old. ;D ;D ;D

My first internet connection was 14k dial up and my first e-mail address was something like 103547@compuserve.com. Old skool or fucking what?
Title: Re: Surfing with Tor reminds me of 28kbs dial up ... ;-)
Post by: b0lixtrader on August 15, 2012, 09:24 am
Oh yeah 14k dial up....
 
the fucking obnoxious noise it made lmao.....thingafefcsvc32d3fwvweccboingdoinghongchangpingponddingdongkong....

AOL baby....wow the memories.

OP, I don't know if you were here about an year ago, but SR has gotten MUCH faster.  It was agonizingly slow before.
Title: Re: Surfing with Tor reminds me of 28kbs dial up ... ;-)
Post by: HammerHead on August 15, 2012, 11:07 am
And then you always had that asshole friend who used his phone line for internet and when you try calling him, your ears just get raped by that noise.

Oh yeah 14k dial up....
 
the fucking obnoxious noise it made lmao.....thingafefcsvc32d3fwvweccboingdoinghongchangpingponddingdongkong....

AOL baby....wow the memories.

OP, I don't know if you were here about an year ago, but SR has gotten MUCH faster.  It was agonizingly slow before.
Title: Re: Surfing with Tor reminds me of 28kbs dial up ... ;-)
Post by: jochem on August 15, 2012, 11:18 am
I must say, after the initial connection to the site is remarkably fast (a lot faster then a couple of months a go). Just switch your Tor identity every now and then when it gets slow. I started using the Internet when 56k modems were the norm and I find that after the initial connect it's nothing like that. 56k was just slow all the time. 5KB/s whohoo.
Title: Re: Surfing with Tor reminds me of 28kbs dial up ... ;-)
Post by: turqiun on August 15, 2012, 11:33 am
I know hu. It reminds me of when AOL was the shit with my 56k dial up modem and you hear that weird ass sound as you logged on lol. Tor always takes 5mins to launch and it takes another 5 mins for TOR to launch the SR homepage. Surfing any other site is pretty fast though.
Title: Re: Surfing with Tor reminds me of 28kbs dial up ... ;-)
Post by: mito on August 15, 2012, 01:51 pm
I remember the days of 2400 dial-up BBS world.

downloading a gif image of a nude woman was da shit.

Title: Re: Surfing with Tor reminds me of 28kbs dial up ... ;-)
Post by: HammerHead on August 15, 2012, 04:23 pm
I remember the days of 2400 dial-up BBS world.

downloading a gif image of a nude woman was da shit.

Haha. Looking at porn required planning.  I used to get all the porn loading before school started so it would be fap-ready by the time I got back.
Title: Re: Surfing with Tor reminds me of 28kbs dial up ... ;-)
Post by: Tropicbabez1 on August 16, 2012, 01:48 pm
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Haha. Looking at porn required planning.  I used to get all the porn loading before school started so it would be fap-ready by the time I got back.

hehehe so dude, by "all the porn loading before school"', you mean like 3 jpeg images of a chick with soapsuds on her boobies ? LOL...imagine trying to stream HD video on that shit.
Title: Re: Surfing with Tor reminds me of 28kbs dial up ... ;-)
Post by: pine on August 16, 2012, 03:00 pm
Oh yeah 14k dial up....
 
the fucking obnoxious noise it made lmao.....thingafefcsvc32d3fwvweccboingdoinghongchangpingponddingdongkong....

AOL baby....wow the memories.

OP, I don't know if you were here about an year ago, but SR has gotten MUCH faster.  It was agonizingly slow before.

Hey! I loved that sound :-)

It was so badass. Connecting to the Internet is now boring. Before you felt like you were Entering the Matrix or something.

I agree about speeds though, the Tor network was much much slower a couple of years ago. As in it would take you perhaps 30 minutes to an hour to download a normal webpage. You young 'uns don't know how good you got it! :D
Title: Re: Surfing with Tor reminds me of 28kbs dial up ... ;-)
Post by: b0lixtrader on August 16, 2012, 05:48 pm
Oh yeah 14k dial up....
 
the fucking obnoxious noise it made lmao.....thingafefcsvc32d3fwvweccboingdoinghongchangpingponddingdongkong....

AOL baby....wow the memories.

OP, I don't know if you were here about an year ago, but SR has gotten MUCH faster.  It was agonizingly slow before.

Hey! I loved that sound :-)

It was so badass. Connecting to the Internet is now boring. Before you felt like you were Entering the Matrix or something.

I agree about speeds though, the Tor network was much much slower a couple of years ago. As in it would take you perhaps 30 minutes to an hour to download a normal webpage. You young 'uns don't know how good you got it! :D
Lmao entering the matrix! I lold.
Title: Re: Surfing with Tor reminds me of 28kbs dial up ... ;-)
Post by: Turkey for Breakfast on August 17, 2012, 04:02 pm
I remember the days of 2400 dial-up BBS world.

downloading a gif image of a nude woman was da shit.

I too recall BBS World, but I don't recall .gif even being a file type back then. Mostly text based garbage. But it was mind boggling and super fun to use.
Title: Re: Surfing with Tor reminds me of 28kbs dial up ... ;-)
Post by: BanWork on August 17, 2012, 07:22 pm
Maybe it's because I'm from ye olden days and so wasn't born in the age of fiber optic broadband, but TOR don't seem that bad to me. At least you don't get cut off when someone phones your house to see if your coming down the park to drink 4 cans of Helden Bräu Super and attempt to cop off with exotic girls from another school.
Title: Re: Surfing with Tor reminds me of 28kbs dial up ... ;-)
Post by: Turkey for Breakfast on August 18, 2012, 01:22 am
Maybe it's because I'm from ye olden days and so wasn't born in the age of fiber optic broadband, but TOR don't seem that bad to me. At least you don't get cut off when someone phones your house to see if your coming down the park to drink 4 cans of Helden Bräu Super and attempt to cop off with exotic girls from another school.

I envy your childhood.  8)
Title: Re: Surfing with Tor reminds me of 28kbs dial up ... ;-)
Post by: johnwholesome on August 18, 2012, 01:54 am
Seriously tho, remember how excited you got when those last few lines came rolling in at 2,400baud before you'd finally get to see some punani?

Every newly rendered line you be like now...NOW.....NAAAOW.......

Just to find out you wouldn't see any punani because they all wore ultrabush in those days.....
Title: Re: Surfing with Tor reminds me of 28kbs dial up ... ;-)
Post by: Turkey for Breakfast on August 18, 2012, 02:16 am
Didn't even realize what I had in those days. I just knew it was new, cool, fun, and exciting. Fortunately it grew, and grew, and got better, and blossomed into what we have today. Where it continues to evolve and improve. It is great to be alive and living in this day and age.