Can I daisy chain multiple pc 98s together to make something that surpass modern windows.

If 12 modems simultaneously handshake and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound? You’re damn right it does and probably shattered glass too.

K…bps

Welcome to 1999.

Here’s the money shot: https://youtu.be/LZ259Jx8MQY?t=1240

I wish they had used a better mic but that was like giving my soul a really good scratch.

I imagine it sounds amazing

The hearing of 3 observers was lost during the handshake.

This was similar to a trick that a few smaller (less serious) hobby-ISPs did back in the days of 14.4k/28.8k modems to take advantage of the “reasonably priced” business plans for ISDN. They’d register multiple businesses at a single address to qualify for the plans, then balance new egress connections across the pool using squid and other magic. Fun times…

Kilobits or Kilobytes?

I hate to be that guy, but… Is it time to get DSL?

I remember doing this with NetZero accounts. You could trivially hack out the ads, and dial in-twice (if you had two phone lines), and do the bonding. Free slightly less shitty internets. Very useful for Napster and LimeWire back in the day.

More like masochists than enthusiasts.

I bet you could get slightly quicker speeds if they ran a pihole or something to block ads.

This is kind of an interesting idea. I wonder if it’s feable to reuse all the old 56k modems?

now stack ‘em on that poptart borzoi

How would Euthanists use modems? Oh…

Semi-barely-related thing that popped into my brain on imagining the sound of this;

… the UNATCO theme from Deus Ex played by an ‘orchestra’ of floppy drives.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=WhbBYLB90U0