I think OP is off by 10 or 20 years.
Almost nobody was still using dial-up in 2004.
I played my first MMO daily from 2001-2004. I did not have dialup then.
I doubt WoW can even be played dial-up.
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I hope itās an 8800GTX gpu so you donāt have to look at the ground to move in Ironforge.
Iāve had a cable modem since 1999. I barely remember what dial up is even like.
I got you famalam
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I guess you didnāt read half the post on this
These kinds of posts literally blow my mind
More or less. There were still some dinosaur 56K modems floating about though.
I had it when I started only because I lived in the boonies and it was the only option. I remember during BC I first heard about satellite internet, but that wasnāt a ton better according to a couple guildies I had that used it.
My wife and I actually moved BECAUSE of WoW. We both got really into it, and we had thrown around the idea of moving before, but that solidified it for us and we made sure the new place had cable access. 10Mbps baby! It was the best thing ever making that jump!
I started out in high school with a 1200 baud modem. Late '80s / early '90s. Had a total blast on the message boards (BBSs) in those days. Though, loading times for a screen of ASCII text were horrible. If you wanted to download a VGA picture, you were waiting twenty minutes to a half hour.
Came out to LA for college, and my aunt hooked me up with a 2400 baud, of course for college and āeducationalā purposes. Yay, I was now loading a screen of text in less than a minute, and though I still needed to let it run all night to download a game that was a megabyte, the speed was blowing my mind. My othello and MUDs were loading crazy fast!
Then one of my BBS friends handed me a 14.4. He said, ātake this brother, may it serve you well.ā OK, no he didnāt, thatās from a Beatles song, but yeah, he had two for whatever reason and thought it would be cool to loan me one. Weāre up to like '93/'94 now. The speed was ā¦ mindblowing.
28.8 and 56k were pipe dreams for students at that point; they cost hundreds and hundreds of dollars. But, after a bit of school and getting a job, I bought a 56k. I think it was on sale for like $199.99, and I did have to switch ISPs because mine did not support 56k yet. Good times, Netcom!
In like 1996 or 1997, I was the first person I knew anywhere to get a high speed line. ADSL from what was, at the time, Pacific Bell. I think it was a 1 megabit line, but it might have been like 512k. All I knew is that I could download an MP3 in seconds, and life was good. It took two technicians like an hour to put that thing in - a massive filter box on the wall and an additional enormous filter mid-line to the modem.
When I moved into my own house in 2003-ish, DSL came before I did. So, though I was still on like a Pentium III, my internet speed was blazing fast. All of like 2 megabits or something. LOL!
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Anyone remember installing network cards lol.
My Compaq in '99 barely had room for any additional peripherals. My roommate was a super nerd with his 250 MB zip drive.
Both of us suffered the wrath of Windows ME. Lich King aināt got nothing on that OS.