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

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/ reply: I love the concept! It's too damn fast though. I want to see my cursor change to busy when waiting for IO

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.

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.

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?) reply: I had the first iPhone and distinctly remember telling people "I have the entire internet in my pocket at all times" and people finding it strange. I said "I never really have to log off Facebook or Digg" and my friends didn't understand what I meant.

Vibe coded replica, not the actual OS or programs.Also riddled with inaccuracies. reply: it's like a theme park, the feels - not a museum

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49886195

Heh love that it has the star-field screensaver. nice touch.

Cool, but webpages load too fast.

Hah, it's funny how the right environment brings back the same old vibes also in chat.

It was fun chatting with you guys :D

Dialing in with Terminate and then using lynx was a real experience.

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.

I just remembered ripterm and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Imaging_Protocol

this is great, but everything loads WAY too fast. It took forever to get anything to load back in the day.

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.

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.

Why do the websites feel faster than modern internet?

Fun and cool. The News made me chuckle.

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.

Still ugly after all these years. Get a Mac.

Beautiful.Now we just need to bring back BBS’s and the daily turn based games. Legend of the Red Dragon, Usurper, etc.

That chat was fun, 20 people online!Some were asking: a/s/l hahahaha

Reminds me of this xkcd comic: https://xkcd.com/3227/Select modem mode and just hurt.

[dupe] see previous conversations in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340252

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.