kb/s. Thats the speed of my internet connection when I started playing this game years ago.
Youtube had yet to be invented. You didnt use google but altavista instead. Everybody played Red Alert 2.

Those were the days.

warchats on icq

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iCPIUGnHQ8 ;)

windows 95... on 32mb ram.

processor speed was in megaherzs instead gigaherzs.

monitor size was under 20 inch.

32.2 was mine


i remember trying to download stuff still. LOL

then 56.6k came out, i use to get excited when my downloads would get into the 5 kbps LOL

Microsoft Chicago?

14.4kb/s like a boss

Lets see... I had a custom built PC with a 40gb hard drive, 17" CRT monitor, 1GB of RAM, Windows 98 SE... the iOmega Zip drive was still popular, CD/DVD-RW drives were new, MP3 Audio was new and just catching on... WinAmp was new... Napster... LOL. Everything needed to have a parallel port connection as USB was still in its infancy. Plug and Play didn't come about until Windows XP. Oh yeah... and DVDs were still relatively new.

A lot of search engines were still around, Lycos, Hotwire, Dogpile, Excite, WebCrawler, HotBot, AskJeeves, Infoseek/Go... There were —very few— mainstream internet browsers then, Mozilla and Opera were still young... leaving Netscape and Internet Explorer as the main contenders.

My preferred search engines were Yahoo/Altavista/Netscape, my ISP was Juno getting about 56kb/s... I didn't get a T1 connection until later on and cable internet was seen as fluffall expensive back in 1999. At the time I lived in Los Angeles... America Online was pervasive... and at one point worked as an AOL Tech Support Representative.

Pop music had a stranglehold on America, shows like American Idol hadn't come about yet, and the best we had for some sense of normalcy in music were bands like Linkin Park, Nickelback, Disturbed, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Creed, Everlast, Collective Soul, The Offspring, Limp Bizkit, Tool, Godsmack, KoRn, Stone Temple Pilots and Rob Zombie to carry us through the end of the decade with the flood of Pop music bullfluff being churned out by artists like Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera.

lol.

Dial....

Up...

I can still hear the screeching noise in my head when it was trying to connect.

welcome to your nightmare !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHW1ho8L7V8

and wait time for site to load was counted in minutes instead seconds.

I remember going around the neighbourhood and grabbing the free 540 minutes with netscape or aol from my neighbours mailboxes

waiting for porn to load... would have to settle for pics because vids were crazy load times

i would be all worked up just staring at a face for a while and when the boobies showed up that was it... i would be finished by the time the rest of the pic finally became visible :)

I bet your wife/gf is extremely happy and satisfied :-P

you have a ridiculous memory and an affinity for the past.

do you hate the present that much?

look at these 2 posts.

how do you not understand how retarded you are?

Ah yes, when I started playing you were charged for internet for every minute you used it. Angry parents when I was online too long.. And a 3MB download (using Napster for example) took what.. 15-20minutes if you were lucky?

Can't say I miss those days.. Only fun thing back then was the "earth 2025 browser" custom made for running too many countries (think most Peki and I ever ran were 500 countries between the 2 of us) ^^

That's crazy SB. Even at its heyday, most I ever ran in RAGE was 60 or 75..

Except for that one or two sets with the bot countries but never tagged those up.

Oh yeah... and the local gas prices were around $1.29 a gallon... and I —used— to drive to work everyday before one gallon of gas became more expensive than a gallon of milk!.

I don't hate the present so much as realize that in the last fifteen years so much has changed, so much so to the point that instead of things that —should— concern us as people, we're flooded with the media sensationalizing completely trivial bullfluff about whatever currently popular or has-been celebrity doing something wrong. And since then rather than investigative reporters or vetted news agencies being the ones who rendered their opinions, you now have clueless neophytes who with an internet connection can become famous overnight just for posting their opinions to their blog/Facebook/Twitter/Tumblr/social media accounts calling themselves social justice warriors, when a startling percentage of them can't even be bothered to practice what they preach.

+10. I still like being to able to voice my opinon amoung friends, but please don't confuse my takes as "news".

Did u have that browser? It was great.. but only used it for 1 or 2 sets I think.. You would have say string 1-10 and each string had country 1-15, just buttons and after every string you had a button for deleting coockies and changing your IP ;)
it had buttons for build, explore etc. And all 15 countries could do the same at the same time.. so killing a country took like 30sec ;)

was it cheating.. probably.. was it fun? for sure :)

fluffing Peki held out on me.. Always claimed to be running only 1 string.

The bot was ok'ish. Could run 100's but the build wasn't great.

Lol yea right.. we had 1400-1500 countries at 1 point..
At netting sets we mostly ran 1 string tho.. except maybe some 30ish countries each for some protection against OMAR who suicided on us for 1,5year for every single set :P.. but never wondered how we grew in war sets? :P

Oh and probably ran 1 or 2 strings in other clans for spying ^^