I feel so old ;____; these young summoners dont know what dial-up is

arc95·4/27/2015, 2:07:45 AM·71 votes·4,025 views

So i was playing a game of ARAM and our Jinx took a long time to connect so our Zilean jokingly asked if Jinx had Dial-up (plz tell me you know what that is) and our Jinx said... "Dial-up what the hell is that"...it just made me realize I'm actually playing with people born in the 2000's ( not that its a bad thing) but man it just seems crazy to me....

but me and Zilean got a good laugh at reminiscing on the joy that was dial-up...

just imagine dial-up in league a summoner has disconnected a summoner has reconnected summoner- sorry guys someone called my house

edit: also im not really old at all i was born mid 90's but still XD

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ModWulf Helhammer4/27/2015, 2:43:50 AM32 votes

ZIlean knew he would say that (also this story is greatly enhanced with the fact the the zilean asked that lol)

j j4/27/2015, 2:58:55 AM24 votes

that moment when you used to use dial up for runescape :)

Drackolus4/27/2015, 7:57:48 AM15 votes

What's a summoner? item 3070

Times New Ramen4/27/2015, 2:54:21 AM9 votes

"ima brb mum just texted me that she's gonna call the house phone because her battery is low."

disconnects

Big Daddy Husk4/27/2015, 3:46:46 PM5 votes

I had Dial up until about 2010...boy did that suck.

Aatrox Herself4/27/2015, 2:15:43 AM5 votes

I was born in 2000 and I know what dial up is, and the fact that I have seen War Games 20 times probably has something to do with it.

TenSlashTen4/27/2015, 3:55:23 PM4 votes

Im early 90's.

6 years old sitting at my first computer playing broodwar with some internet.

I've had charter communications most of my life.

Their support techs are kind of retarded and shitty but other than that they're fine.. (and by that I mean what they ask you to do I can do myself or already tried that hours ago lolol)

broodwar and runescape and halo Basically most of my "online childhood" Also AoL messengar or w/e it was called. Also did some Gaiaonline with my first girlfriend back in middleschool we'd chat when we weren't in school online and sometimes go the park together. Young love is cute. The minigames also weren't bad for a chat website game. They had this one mmoRPG mode that had rings or w/e And the whole thing was browser based.

did a lot of local halo tournaments. I was a god so I usually won the money prizes. Halo 1/2 was my jam as a young man.

Haven't played a halo game since halo 4 Didnt like halo since halo 3 though. Halo 3 was probably the last game I could stand because I knew bungie was changing a lot and just too much change.

The adding of sprinting into the game was just wierd for me personally, never really liked it. I thought it didn't belong. I think halo 2 was the golden age for me. In terms of map flow and gameplay and community.

Knalxz4/27/2015, 2:23:47 PM3 votes

I sometimes forget that I don't have to worry about that anymore. I saw my cousin on the phone the other day while I was playing league and I nearly leaped for his cell. Then I remember I'm in the future.

AJStarhiker4/28/2015, 4:56:28 AM2 votes

And MCI? I remember figuring out how to "prove" it was an unlucky company:

MCI is also the Roman numeral for 1101. 1101 is binary for 13. 13 is considered an unlucky number.

NinjaToad994/27/2015, 4:55:47 AM2 votes

How does anybody not know what Dial-up was?

Fredart4/27/2015, 12:29:00 PM2 votes

Crapcast, today's version of dial up.

10Tickler4/27/2015, 2:52:49 PM2 votes

{quoted}

So i was playing a game of ARAM and our Jinx took a long time to connect so our Zilean jokingly asked if Jinx had Dial-up (plz tell me you know what that is) and our Jinx said... "Dial-up what the hell is that"...it just made me realize I'm actually playing with people born in the 2000's ( not that its a bad thing) but man it just seems crazy to me....

but me and Zilean got a good laugh at reminiscing on the joy that was dial-up...

just imagine dial-up in league a summoner has disconnected a summoner has reconnected summoner- sorry guys someone called my house

edit: also im not really old at all i was born mid 90's but still XD

Diablo on Dialup was Hell.

(80's here)

Kellory4/28/2015, 2:33:42 AM2 votes

Dude, text based online games. And I graduated high school in the mid 90's.

Back in days of yore;

There were 2 Germanys and Berlin had a Wall. Saddam Hussein was a great ally of the USA, he was fighting Iran. The USSR was fighting in Afghanistan, and the USA was sending the proto-Taliban food, medicine, and weapons. The Southeast US only elected democrats. Republicans were the damn Yankees. The Star Wars story didn't suck and there was no Jar-Jar Binks. And of course the phone had a rotary dial that you spun. The good old-rotary phones. In memory of their greatness, we still refer to it as "dialing".

Oh, and the Ozone layer had a whole in it.

Worst Mid Ever4/27/2015, 12:23:26 PM1 votes

australia still has dial-up, it is also around $25 a month lmao

blujadajhdja4/27/2015, 11:41:02 PM1 votes

I don't even understand how people used dial-up, it was so slow, you could see the web pages appearing from the top to the bottom almost as if they were being typed.