anyone else get REALLY pissed when

[fleabert]

a page takes more than about 3 seconds to load? I am so irritated that things are slow on my computer for some reason tonight, but in reality I am only having to wait a few seconds longer than usual! I hit stop and reload instead of waiting more than five seconds, that is pitiful. I am so used to a fast connection, that when I hit a link, I expect INSTANT information!

how spoiled am I? I remember the days of the semi-early internets... just one page could take several minutes! I would walk away and get a drink or something waiting for it... pitiful how ADD I have become about this...


:rant:

[MazeRat7]

1. Define "semi-early internets"... arpanet ? BBS's ?

Just curious if you really know what "slow" is *grin.

MZr7

[fleabert]

4. that's why I used the prefix 'semi'. LOL! I knew someone would

certainly be from the 'real' EARLY internets! I am talking early to mid nineties... days when AOL was the only thing anyone heard of when it came to getting on. I never knew, and still don't know, the 'speed' of my computer, but I know it's new.

I am talking before I owned a computer, and only got on in my college computer lab.

:-) I have no idea what those things are that you reference, if that tells you anything.

[MazeRat7]

11. Chuckle.....

The era I reference was less than 20 years ago. The "internet" as you know it didn't really live until around 92 and the only "web browser" then was called Mosaic. It was mostly an academic exercise in data sharing. "Thank you Tim...."

Prior to that we did have email, ftp, and usenet, oh yeah and no firewalls or security... *grin

It was a beautiful time (except for that whole 300 baud modem crap)

MZr7

[enigmatic]

2. I remember the days of 14.4 modems...

it was like swimming in molasses...

[fleabert]

5. I remember not knowing what a modem was!

i wondered at first, sitting in my college computer lab (surfing, if you could call it that!) and wondering what the hell the fuss was about, it was infuriatingly slow to navigate!

[enigmatic]

8. Oh yeah!

I remember switching from a 56k to a cable modem for the first time; I think I cried tears of joy for half the night!:P

[fleabert]

10. the first time I got cable, I dont' think I left the computer for a week!

that was the year I found delphiforums and became obsessed. instant gratification and 'friendships', what more could one ask for?

(my computer is behaving much better now, btw...I think she was hot, I opened her door (to the tower) and she sped right up)

[MazeRat7]

9. 14.4 ? How about 300 ?

The first modem (the ones with "muffs" you put the rotary dial handset into were only 300 bps) A few years later I distincly remember buying my first "fast: modem which blazed at 1200bps. There was major droolage from all my buddies. That was only about 20 years ago.

[TheProphetess]

3. It is funny how relative "slow" can be

I'm so used to DSL that I can't even begin to imagine going back to dial up and waiting forever for pages to load. Yuck.

[fleabert]

6. here here, [i]forever[/i] is a relative term too! LOL.

and html doesn't work in the subject line, lol!

forever

and you know I don't hit 'preview' either!

[fleabert]

7. I also get pissed when I sit at someone else's computer and they

don't have a wheel on their mouse. soon I will get frustrated if their mouse has wires, I am sure.

[ghostsofgiants]

15. YOU get frustrated?

I have an 8-button Logitech MX700. Regular mice are so damn uncomfortable, and the fact that I can't use a mouse to go back and forth between and to refresh webpages frustrates me to no end, haha. It's sad really, haha.

[NMMNG]

12. Makes me think of a Garfield cartoon

He's at his microwave oven and it takes like two seconds to cook something...he says "these microwaves take sooo long"

[Deja Q]

13. Same thing happened to me last night - any web page:

I've high speed internet.

Online games worked but web pages didn't.

(a cyberterror attack? :crazy: :headbang: :silly: )

[ghostsofgiants]

14. I feel your pain

When I was away at school I had a 3mbit cable connection. Now i'm on a 1.5mbit DSL connection. It's not really noticable for pageloads, but I still hate it. The fact that it takes an hour and a half instead of 45 minutes to download a movie drives me insane.

And then there's the days where it just decides it's gonna be slow as hell for no apparently reason. I can't help but get the urge to put my fist through my monitor, haha. So impatient.

I shudder to think what would happen if I was somehow forced to go back to dial-up.