Back in the day my college had very strict filtering on the WiFi. I learned how to use SSH tunneling through PuTTY to bypass the firewall to connect to X-Fire. I was so 1337.
This is the part where my mom would mention party lines.
In some rural areas there was something like not every house had a unique phone number, but as a side effect you could just pick up the phone and talk to all the people on that same party line at once.
Yeah back on the days of analogue telephone lines every phone number ultimately required 2 copper wires going all the way from the nearest local exchange to the telephone handset in the home or business, so many smaller towns and rural areas got party lines as a way to save on copper and switching costs. Instead of a dedicated pair of copper wires to every house with a phone, all of the houses on a given block were on one line (all on one electrical circuit), so you’d pick up the phone and be able to talk to (or listen to) your other neighbors without dialing.
Edit to add: in some rural areas they’d even use the barbed wire fences already at farms as a wire for delivering telephone service instead of running new phone lines, sometimes even using Single Wire Earth Return to further reduce copper requirements
Squatting on a party-line to play WoW is just a wild pairing of technological eras to me. If we go by the invention date of the former they’re more than a century apart (1878).
Oh no, so I won’t get to see that one person who is always the only person who turns their camera on so you get to see a live feed of their messy bedroom, weirdly harsh lighting and piles of junk while they try to eat dinner while playing video games.
The thing is that Discord is sort of like three or four things all in one and it’s really difficult to find a good replacement that does them all while still having a nice userbase.
I agree, the app makes it very easy to share and collaborate and make communities around sharing content, so I think there’s going to be a vacuum that will get quickly filled by up-and-coming companies trying to compete on ground floor.
Something about it isn’t as super-convenient like Discord but, Signal desktop has a pretty good screen presentation mode that works pretty well. I dunno how bad the latency is or anything though.
If it’s a personal friend group and we’re talking about life or sharing things or watching a piece of media, or the meeting is about each other, sure, makes sense to show up and “be there.”
When it’s gaming acquaintances and we’re just playing a game, it feels odd and out of place.
Slight correction:
As an old: You kids and your TeamSpeak … back in my day Ventrilo, and we were happy to have it! (uphill both ways or something about my lawn).
Ahh “Vent.” My biggest memory there is people trolling with the sign-on TTS.
“My ROFLCOPTER GOES SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI…”
Anybody remember the brief flash in the pan that was “X-fire”? Haha
Obligatory Moonbase Alpha TTS
YES!!
When I stall and forget what the heck I was saying, thanks to this video I’ll sometimes just go “…uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…AEIOU…”
Probably about how I’d react to having to fix a component on a moon base too. XD
“Snake? SNAKE? Saaaaaaake 🍶…”
Back in the day my college had very strict filtering on the WiFi. I learned how to use SSH tunneling through PuTTY to bypass the firewall to connect to X-Fire. I was so 1337.
I can still hear the ripping jeans sound effect
You think that’s old? Let’s talk ICQ.
This is the part where my mom would mention party lines.
In some rural areas there was something like not every house had a unique phone number, but as a side effect you could just pick up the phone and talk to all the people on that same party line at once.
Yeah back on the days of analogue telephone lines every phone number ultimately required 2 copper wires going all the way from the nearest local exchange to the telephone handset in the home or business, so many smaller towns and rural areas got party lines as a way to save on copper and switching costs. Instead of a dedicated pair of copper wires to every house with a phone, all of the houses on a given block were on one line (all on one electrical circuit), so you’d pick up the phone and be able to talk to (or listen to) your other neighbors without dialing.
Edit to add: in some rural areas they’d even use the barbed wire fences already at farms as a wire for delivering telephone service instead of running new phone lines, sometimes even using Single Wire Earth Return to further reduce copper requirements
I lived in a rural area and the nearest phone for emergencies belonged to one house that lived a quarter mile away.
The owner of the phone got hooked on WoW on dial-up at some point and basically ended the party line for everyone.
Squatting on a party-line to play WoW is just a wild pairing of technological eras to me. If we go by the invention date of the former they’re more than a century apart (1878).
Also: rude!
That’s amazing. I’m gonna tell my mom that, she’ll love it.
The Kinks even wrote a song about it
mIRC
My server wouldn’t let you on with mIRC unless you were at least cool enough to disguise it/use a bouncer. Kept the M$ riffraff out ;)
The hottest place to download AOL punters and warez!
Uh oh!
Took me a second, then I remembered the sound.
Still remember my number lol
Team speak is voice mainly, but yea.
Oh no, so I won’t get to see that one person who is always the only person who turns their camera on so you get to see a live feed of their messy bedroom, weirdly harsh lighting and piles of junk while they try to eat dinner while playing video games.
The thing is that Discord is sort of like three or four things all in one and it’s really difficult to find a good replacement that does them all while still having a nice userbase.
Me and my friends use it to stream our gameplay or watch movies and stuff together. Nothing else I’ve seen really allows you to do that easily.
I agree, the app makes it very easy to share and collaborate and make communities around sharing content, so I think there’s going to be a vacuum that will get quickly filled by up-and-coming companies trying to compete on ground floor.
Something about it isn’t as super-convenient like Discord but, Signal desktop has a pretty good screen presentation mode that works pretty well. I dunno how bad the latency is or anything though.
Wow this felt oddly personal.
Have you never wanted to view your friends face?
If it’s a personal friend group and we’re talking about life or sharing things or watching a piece of media, or the meeting is about each other, sure, makes sense to show up and “be there.”
When it’s gaming acquaintances and we’re just playing a game, it feels odd and out of place.
Some people must have friends who have faces for radio. Lol
could be about the missing chat features.