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I was definitely listening to RealAudio radio stations over a 14.4 connection.
by romanhn 3mo ago
I was definitely listening to RealAudio radio stations over a 14.4 connection.
- LeoPanthera 3mo agoI used to listen to Art Bell on the Coast to Coast RealAudio stream - from the UK! I think it was before "RealVideo" so it was still just "RealAudio" and not "RealPlayer". Or something like that.
- sgarland 3mo agoI was gonna say, we absolutely had streaming music. Did it suck? Yes, but it was novel, so it was acceptable. I had a 33.6 connection that my ISP eventually upgraded to full 56K, which I discovered by noticing that the dial-up handshake sounded different. Man… I sound old.
- jamesbfb 3mo agoYou’ve unlocked a memory for me! I had that same experience when I heard a different series of squeals than normal only to realise the modem had negotiated something faster than 31.2!
- Ylpertnodi 3mo agoI turned my squeals off. Got a phone bill. Turned on the sqeals. Dialler.exe was calling the Seychelles. That was back in the days when my telecom let me off the bill (7* my monthly income at the time) because 'You have a virus".
- doublerabbit 3mo agoReminds me of a time that on the weekends my parents would drive to my grandads who had a computer. My grandad was a television screen writer and I had discovered Habbo Hotel, so win win. Of course hormones being all the rage at 17, I decided to look at porn and printed it out so I could show it around at school. What I had done was downloaded a premium rate dialler that ended costing him around £100 back in 2003. I had gone downstairs and forgotten to disconnect. He's passed now but sorry Grandad for the phone bill. I had never realised what I had done until many years later. Still, I was one of the cooler kids in school for having a HP DeskJet printed crumpled piece of paper of a naked lady.
- throawayonthe 3mo agoin 2003?
- doublerabbit 3mo agoYeah, I was 16. Dial-up was still primarily the internet, 512kb broadband in the UK didn't really hit until 2007/8. The best you had was 128k ISDN.
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- devin 3mo agoI'm taking the downvote in stride, but 14.4 and 28.8 RealAudio streaming seems like it lasted all of 3 months and then people had napster and were pulling 96k mp3s.
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- sgarland 3mo agoI had AudioGalaxy before Napster, and preferred higher bitrates (192 KBPS CBR, until VBR took off), but yes - RealAudio didn’t have that long of a lifetime in comparison.