What online ritual or behavior was standard when first connecting to the internet that is now completely gone?
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@nixCraft fingering to see if your friends were online
@nixCraft calling friend to see if they was ready to play duke nukem multiplayer and hiding phones in house
@nixCraft write ATDT or ATDP before fone number t么 connect to BBS... Ops was to be about internet??
@nixCraft Performing the latest rebuild of the 'bang' paths in order to send email from your server.
@nixCraft thinking up great nicknames for chat rooms
Trying to decipher the more outlandish emoticons
Looking at the clock, watching those super expensive online minutes tick by
@nixCraft Being happy to get email 馃ぃ 馃ぃ 馃ぃ 馃ぃ
@nixCraft making sure nobody needed to use the phone first
@nixCraft I'm reading these comments about line being free/busy and I can't help but smile.
My birthday gift was an internet connection with a phone provider that gave you a second line just for internet, cause the family was fed up with the show every time xDDD
@nixCraft the ICQ login sound
@nixCraft Virus database update!
@nixCraft Watch the download progress
@nixCraft
Watching images fill in from top to bottom.
@nixCraft putting the horn in the acoustic coupler
@nixCraft according to my parents, getting their siblings off the phone so they could open internet explorer 4 then imitating the dialup sounds as best as they could