justinahn

“Adrienne, how old are you?”

Me: this was my high school phone

everyone out here flexing phones

meanwhile, this is how i first connected to the world wide web - 28.8k, eat your hearts out

and shoutout to anyone who grew up in the dc area and used erol's instead of AOL!

your mom's favorite farcaster (probably), building /quidli 🦑, casting in /justinahn, daoing in /🍊 & /🟪

and shoutout to anyone who grew up in the dc area and used erol's instead of AOL!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erol%27s

this one for me was the first and in Italy we connected with IOL (Italia On Line), not much fantasy I suppose... 😅

TIL there was Italia Online 😂

did the rest of europe skip the whole minitel period they had in france?

56k was definitely a big deal, for sure. but then came the DSL game changer 😂

back in days the phone lines which supported modems were very few. for the first 3 years of my high school I went to my best friend apartment (son of an architect) to connect with a 14.4 modem. that was all of my "online" experience. mainly BBS, no internet yet. then they created IOL and the entry point was 56K for everyone and internet was a thing even in Italy.