You could’ve just said non-Intel.

Myspace allowed customization to the detriment of the visitor sometimes.

I don't doubt it, but as it was a given user's space that was bad as far as navigation or such ... so what? Kinda like the dumpy diner people go to because it is cheap and has that atmosphere they're looking for. Maybe the table wiggles and it's not a great spot, but that's what it is.

If you're talking about security issues, I get that, valid concern. I've got no good answer for it.

I do think there is a loss, that there isn't that personality.

Darkweb?

Reddit ?

This is great.

I remember listening to Axel F, and attempting to make my own mods, but basically just changed the instrument samples.

I did that for years, too :) On the Amiga, that's all I did music wise, rip modules (I still miss that) and listen to / look at them, first in trackers and then with EaglePlayer and DeliTracker and their visualizations. Then on the PC, I made painfully short stubs, like 10-30 seconds, for a long time, with FastTracker (painful because I just didn't know how to make them longer, they were little rhythmic or melodic figures I guess). Then I got into Renoise, and I guess for the most part sampled and looped things I liked, and added speech samples to that. If I count from the first moment I fell in love with Protracker at age 11 or so, and me making something I would call a song in my 20s, it took me over a decade to even begin sucking at music, before that it wasn't even music. And I feel I owe so much to the Amiga, and the people who made music for it, and cared about playing back music for it.

This video is for you then:

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

Not the author - just wanted to add to your nostalgia kick.

Good grief, he did that with just 4 tracks! Sounds exactly like I remember it too. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you. Ah, the memories...

Dumpster diving no longer exists?

This would be trivial with Amazon comingling inventory.

So, if you had such a lightbulb, and it stopped working, and you put it in your garbage, could somebody not take it, find your pw, and the access your wifi network? Maybe even some ARP poisoning or change your dns servers?

Take a look at ISDN, too. Family friend had that in their home.

'Only' 64k and 128k speeds. However, it was 'always on' compared to dialup over POTS lines. 4-5x faster for uploads and 2-4 times faster for downloads, so most dial-up users would have coveted it.

and the monthly cost kept it out of greater adoption.

I believe it was also used for high fidelity, low latency audio for interviews and music production.

Don't forget video games.

In a game with good network code such as Quake 2 / 3, you could expect at best a 150ms ping time with a 56k modem in ideal scenarios but on ISDN you could get half that which made a world of a difference.

I never had ISDN but I knew a few people with it. It was like you were playing a completely different game. Then cable came and it blew everything away with getting 20-30ms ping times even in the early 2000s.

Ah, I was only playing original Quake with a direct dial-up to a friend’s modem, for 1-on-1, but we did have it working in the computer lab on 10-baseT.

If somebody went to turn their desktop slightly, the coax would pop out of the t-connector and those further down the chain would be at a severe disadvantage.

Your #1 does not really help your #2.

uPNP is pretty cool.