Can I use that in a minute?
on July 31, 2018 at 12:01 amholy crap what are the odds more than one person in the world would be sending email right now
Man, few things make It’s Walky! feel like a product of its time more than everyone in Squad 128 needing to share exactly one thing that can send email.
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idk, my e-mail’s been down all week
my job is to send e-mail
yay
Did ya get that thing I sentcha?
Anyone else remember those days when someone used the phone you had to wait for them to finish so that you can use the internet?
Remember hell, I ran a WWIV BBS.
I was one of the lucky ones who lived in a house with two separate phone lines (one line had connections in most rooms, the other was only in the den). We only gave out the phone number for the main line, so we had a dedicated phone line for dialup.
When I got my first laptop (and was therefore the first time we had multiple computers with modems), I tried connecting on the main phone line while my sister used the desktop in the den. It worked without any throttling, but our ISP/long distance provider was livid about us using two phone lines at once for internet. After the ISP told us not to use both lines for internet, I had to wait my turn for using the den’s phone line.
Yep. I also remember dealing with the issue of dropping as soon as anyone picked up the line. My mom used to intentionally do that to me, seeing little to no valid reason for me to even be using the line.
I kinda like dated, specific technological limits in stories, they’re interesting; they cause complications that might not work with newer technology but allow capabilities impossible before the technology existed. And you get fun little nuances, like the idea of slamming a phone dramatically.
(I still like that one with Dina and the phone earlier, even though I really like Dina and feel she was too mistreated and innocent to deserve any schadenfreude, it was just good physical comedy regardless who did it).
Also old computers are rad. I once installed a virtual machine to run Windows 3.11 just for the nostalgia factor (and to help run old games, but it was hit or miss about that).
Try running it inside DOSbox, you should be able to get more than 16 colors at 640×480 using S3 drivers and its S3 Trio emulation. (Just don’t map the its C drive to the root of your actual C drive, so it can’t overwrite modern OS files!)
I’ve built a couple retro gaming PCs, and for compatibility and ease of setup I’d rather do XP (or Win2k) and DOSbox than run 98 natively. I’ve done both, and XP is a happy middle ground between 90s legacy support and modern stability. I’m not saying this is the only way to go, of you want to use original hardware or recreate an old PC you used back then, go for it!
FWIW, emails in and out of SEMME were probably secured so there were likely only a few workstations with the necessary crypto software to be used as communications points.
SEMME? Do something sensible? Ha, that’s funny.
They probably have an ancient, unpatched mail server running Windows NT 4.0, routed directly to the wide open Internet, with no antivirus, and the admin password is “$3mm3”.
Nah… The password was p455w0r6.
I used that one as my AOL password for awhile, figuring no one would think anyone would be stupid enough to do that. It was at least a year before someone got into my account.
I never used it again, after that.
Huh, they were using e-mail to communicate, not MSN? Boy SEMME was behind times.
Yes, Joe, nobody else of the billions of people in the world is sending emails to anyone right now.
So, is the implication that Robin sent emails to everyone (including Joe, who normally doesn’t get emails) or is the joke that Robin took precisely 60 seconds to do whatever she did?
I think the implication is that she sent an e-mail to Joe. Whether it was to everyone, or specifically to Joe, is still up in the air.
Honestly, I think it’s funnier if it’s just Joe. He’s standing behind her! They’re talking to each otherright now!
Hopefully that’s one of those old keyboards from 80’s. Robin would burn through a modern one in less than a month.
It’s a little behind the times even, isn’t it? This was 2003, right? The first phones with email capabilities were starting to appear at this point. I would think Joe at the very least would have a BlackBerry.