Dialing up on the old family pc!

Welp, after a good and long wait, here it is, finally. I was able to lug this computer around to 3 separate locations and two different houses for recording LOL. Hopefully, you will enjoy this wonderful computer and its AOL connection
[{COMPUTER SPECS}]
Intel Pentium R 82437vx 75-150 MHz
16Mb Ram
1.19 GB Unknown brand
Running Windows 95
3.5 floppy
Sony DVD/RW CRX217E out of a Dell Dimension 2800 parts PC
all with a gigantic 17" ViewSonic E773 Monitor (capable of 160hz surprisingly)
and to dial-up, is the old US Robotics V90
#retrotech #oldtech #retrocomputer #dialup #builtnotbought #AOL #americaonline #AOLinternet #oldinternet #oldcomputers #retro #microsoft #windows95

[@howaboutsomesoyfood]

I'm glad people keep PCs like these instead of just throwing them away. They're pieces of history.

[@justinlyonsPawPatrol]

Me too as well at least my computer history is still going and some I have to fix and reinstall windows but I don’t have the seal copy of windows like 95 98 and more but not using windows 3.1 because it’s Mac ish and doesn’t have a start menu so I go with 95 and all the way to 10 from NT 4.0, 98, 2000, ME, XP, vista & 7 ultimate and 8.1

[@Baer9471]

And it’s better for the environment as well

[@mrbears34]

@@Baer9471 yeah, e waste is terrible.

[@aussieangel37]

i love old things becuase it gives me memos

[@kanekiyoshimura5707]

I don't know what it is with old PCs but I want all of em tbh I

[@malwaretestingfan]

I'm glad there still computers like these alive.

[@tnsll]

I am too!!

[@user-1billlon]

@Archer Twist A

[@user-1billlon]

@Archer Twist WHUTTT

[@CSRE26]

@@tnsll excuse me I do not master well the English that monitor could be connected at present give 0 imput lag as they say that the crt do not give input lag is good for games

[@sebestein09]

@Tanglemangle Blue Animations big W

[@insanityman2452]

You don't know how much I wish I was alive during this age of computers

[@crf80fdarkdays]

I was, good fun 🥲

[@guilhermemb9213]

It was crazy to think that you could even play online games on this crappy dial internet! Like Diablo, Tibia (MMORPG), I played even Gunbound..

[@heinrichagrippa5681]

Sure, it was fun at the time - when you couldn't conceive of what using a computer would be like 28 years later. However, I think if you were dropped in the '90s and had to use a computer like this full time, you'd mess around, play a few dos games, go online and find it all quaint and charming for a while. Then the novelty eventually wears off as it becomes clear there's no streaming, no video at all really. Just crudely animated rotating skull gifs and jpgs that load one row of pixels at a time over the course of a couple minutes. There were some simple games that ran on "Shockwave" (a sort of proto-flash player). Then there's the frequent crashes, very limited hdd space, having to keep track of all your physical media - for instance, installing Microsoft Office off of - and I'm dead serious - _forty-five_ floppy disks. If the stars are aligned, it goes smoothly and only takes a few hours, but more likely you'll get frequent disk-read errors and have to keep re-trying until it works. And if even one of them just won't read at all no matter what you do, you're screwed. Anyway, I could go on for several more paragraphs about the extreme limitations of using '90s-era computers, and the countless inconveniences you've never had to deal with. Though, on top of all that, you have no mobile phone (theoretically you could have one of those giant bricks with a 20-minute battery life, but those are rare and expensive, so you almost certainly don't). Also, the internet uses your landline, so when you're online, _nobody_ can call you, nor can you call anyone, and sometimes when someone tries to call while you're online, you lose your internet connection. Step outside and you're on your own: no gps, no way to look anything up, no way to call people except for pay-phones and the phone numbers you've either memorized or carry around with you. (If you're lucky, there's a giant phonebook that _might_ have the number you need.) If you want to hang out with friends somewhere, you have to agree on a precise place and time, and if someone is late or slightly misunderstands the exact 20 foot radius they were supposed to go to, that's it, they're screwed, because with everyone out and about there's no way to contact each other. Yeah, anyway, the point is there are so, _soooooo_ many things you take for granted which you don't even realize or think about because for you they've been there since birth, but you'd become _very_ aware of if they suddenly weren't there.

[@smolboieats821]

It felt magical just being on a computer like this we had one at my grandmas which we had to quite literally delete the cookies

[@SyNKevN]

@@guilhermemb9213 team fortress, counter strike! Before the internet was heavily regulated. So much fun.

[@shadowbanned3716]

Youve Got Mail!!!! I remember being jealous of my friends when they said they had DSL at their house. It was WAY faster and you could make phonecalls while you were online!

[@crazycoollady]

After not seeing Windows operating systems from the 1990's for years, I think it is awesome to see someone upload a video about it. They definitely bring back nostalgic memories for me, and I wish they weren't as forgotten about. I happen to enjoy vintage technology like this.

[@malcomkumar]

Ahhhh the noise of the hard drive constantly skipping along and loading things. It's the little things in life

[@Brandon68plus1]

We had so much patience in the 90s and early 2000s. Not now we want everything instantly

[@Thrashman-ye4cf]

Because we’ve gotten used to getting everything instantly, back then we were just amazed using it so waiting didn’t matter much.

[@SuspiraVictim1]

Reason why the 90s was GOAT. People were ACTUAL PEOPLE back then.

[@miaomiaochan]

Brought back memories of fiddling on the family computer in our old bonus room in the mid- to late '90s.

[@erduson]

Im glad you keep old stuff instead of just throwing it away. Windows 95 on real hardware indeed brings back more memories than windows 95 on a VM

[@Shadythestar03]

That dial up sound sure brings back so many memories

[@Ace_1776]

Fun fact my grandpa used to have similar computers from that era to windows xp. He even played some Microsoft solitaire on those computers. I even helped him win that and sudoku.

[@ben_and_jace]

i’m obsessed with retro tech so sometimes i use this old mini modem to connect with dial up because i can and windows is amazing for stuff like that. (and also to test my patience i deleted and installed chrome while on dialup. wasn’t fast.)

[@savijsreedharan]

You are simply awesome men!!! kudos for your workings... You woke up my old memories back. seriously back to school. very clean and nice look of daddy computers !!!!

[@tnsll]

Thanks!

[@blenderbachcgi]

Finally! A good quality video of dialing up to the world wide web! Sadly I never got to see this in action, so this is the next best thing! :)

[@MillerMeteor74]

I'm 60. In 2009 or 10 I went to the home of a friend's parents to help take care of them. In an upstairs bedroom I discovered a Gateway PC, running Windows 98, and still turned on (no internet connection though). It was a complete PC outfit. It had the Gateway tower unit, the Gateway monitor, Gateway keyboard, and a Gateway mouse. There was also the quick start guide, whatever that would be called, plus the original manual and original receipt. Also a Gateway Country foam rubber promo cow. There was also a printer, which I think was an HP. The documents folder was empty except for 2 documents created in the year 2000. The whole thing was a time capsule. I should have rescued it when I had the chance. I'm sure that the man who later cleaned out their house, threw it all away. I have no doubt.

[@gamarleton]

the panicked clicking of the power button and nervous laughter 😂

[@Jobombzz]

I remember the only time to enjoy internet time was at night when the fam was sleeping. I’d wind up falling asleep at the computer desk😂

[@whoisev]

That’s awesome! I love vintage computers, even if I never had a specific model.

[@BigChristmassworldtour]

oh yeah?

[@nickjuly4A]

You could create your own dial-up ISP by using a two port ATA device (like one of the Cisco SPA devices) and configure one port to connect to the other and use a computer as a dial-in server on one line to receive calls on. The first two generations of Apple's UFO shaped Airport Extreme routers have a modem on them that can be used as a dial-in server (just setup the PPP dial-in settings). Windows computers can also be used by adding incoming connections to the network connections control panel.

[@nickjuly4A]

This video explains how to configure the ATA to connect to the other line with links to the config files. kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3ipenh8a9icf6c

[@tnsll]

That’s a great idea! I’m going to add this to my to do list! Thank you for telling me this!

[@vishwarao6064]

networking

[@blackterminal]

Could you do a video showing how to do that? I miss the dial up sounds. Yes it's wildly slow but it would be fun to show people what it used to be like

[@ARandomInternetUser08]

I wish I could have a computer as old as this one and do dial-up. Closest PC I have, age-wise, is an old e-machines with a Celeron CPU and 128MB of RAM. One of these days I'll get dial-up for fun.

[@michaelmjdfan5357]

Turn this into a sleeper pc with a rtx 4090 and 32 gigs of ram, dont forget the core i9!

[@Baer9471]

I don’t think an RTX 4090 would fit inside that (quite) slim case

[@ChummyVR123]

For some reason I thought u were mjd lol

[@rutvsvo]

Intell i11

[@persona83]

Why? It's perfect as is.

[@delorean1359]

its from the 90s,.keep the specs

[@DebsPhotography]

This brings back so many memories of when I worked on a PC help desk back in the 90s. Proper technology when you needed to work hard to get things to work 😅

[@apollinedecaesteker1614]

Thank you so much for the late-night nostalgia watching this 🤗 I was born at the end of the 90s but growing up my parents & grands-parents + my school had the same computers. I remember using diskettes and waiting several minutes for a Wikipedia page to charge. I'm in awe that this computer turned on and actually worked !

[@YouShouldntReplyToMe]

Yes! I was growing up in the 2010's (yes im young so don't judge pls) and my family had this old computer that they hardly ever used, but i was using it to watch KZbin. Since i didn't have a phone. But i remember it was so slow and the connection errors were so often! But that didn't stop me. It would take 5 minutes just for the KZbin page to load. But since i was little, it didn't bother me. Good memories 😊

[@user-qu3vz6fz2v]

@@YouShouldntReplyToMe get off the internet bro

[@YouShouldntReplyToMe]

@@user-qu3vz6fz2v hmm, no.

[@unkowncontentcreator]

This is awesome. I just got out my old family computer (2006) about a week or two ago. I was at my dad's probably about 4 years ago now and found it in his garage. He said I could have it. It was still basically new besides years of smoke and then dust. I cleaned it up like I didn't the last time I pulled it out (which was for an hour)this time I opened it up, upgraded the ram from 512mb to 4gb and installed an old Radeon 7750, re-pasted the cpu (found the old thermal paste to be intact after removing the heatsink.. oops) but it is as it has been since my dad set it up. Same account, same name. Same apps installed. Makes me happily sad. Nostalgia is a bastard.

[@kobirelf97]

What makes me laugh about the turbo button is not many people realise it wasn't to speed up the PC it was too actually slow it down which I never understand why they called it turbo

[@tnsll]

Nor do I 😂😂

[@sheppardpat47]

because turbo sounds cool I guess, that's also why they use the term in some non realistic racing games even though it's acting as a nitro... since you can't manually activate a turbo in a engine

[@JustAHuman-gb5go]

anti-turbo

[@ObviateJamaa]

Very cool informative video. Keep up the good work! I'm getting ready to watch your other videos about these old treasures!

[@tnsll]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@Liske-]

man, this computer looks so good. im sad cuz i always want retro pc but i dont have

[@DorianParpari]

Wow, a pc from the ancient of days. Those were such good times man. I remember my sign in name with AOL messenger and as a child how predatory those chat rooms were. The 30 days free trial floppy disc's. The fighting over who's turn it was with my older sister just to only play solitare or free cell as they were the only games available on our computer. The good old days of struggle!

[@VoiceofReason00]

Omg seriously the best times

[@Calenrandir]

This video was so amazing that I had to take notes. Each chunk is an independent thought - not connected. Wow, what a beautiful setup! I'm not even a computer guy, but lucky for me my grandfather was! This is just such a beautiful example of something that, to me, represents him and a hobby he always took pride in, and to hear that it came from your grandparents makes this that much more meaningful. Wow, I've never seen someone take the time to sync the refresh rate to the frame rate. Legend! NO F'ING WAY... IS HE REALLY GONNA USE AND AOL FREE TRIAL FROM 1997 IN 2022?!?! JUST WHO DOES TF HE THINK HE IS?!?! SIR YOU HAVE MY SWORD! WHOA you got that fresh 5.0! ...I remember every single icon on the ribbon. I could navigate through this just as fast as any other interface that I currently use on a daily basis, so deeply is it etched into my psyche. Dang that sounds like a nice modem. Too bad that it didn't work! It WOULD be sick to check that email... could you imagine?? The fact that you got it all the way to dialing up makes this, still, such an incredibly invaluable treasure. Just WOW! As you can tell, I really enjoyed this video. Thank you so much for taking the time to share this!

[@OFFhead]

Imagine running a high end pc game on that computer. it would probally go on fire.

[@Ty_ThatGuy]

The way you tapped the power button and then blew on the power cord like a Nintendo cartridge. ROFL !!!

[@mauriziomonaco2458]

That track ball mouse that you have is amazing, I have the same one (the usb version) and I still use it to this day, I’m glad I finally found someone else that has it

[@tnsll]

I need to clean the rollers, but I absolutely love it LOL

[@johnbullpit9481]

Can't get them any more. Been looking for years

[@notanindianscammer7594]

@@johnbullpit9481 I'll sell you one

[@anta40]

Holy sh*t Windows 95. My 1st exposure to Windows after having a PC built in 96 or 97. Can't believe there are people who are still using it. The dial up modem tone certainly launched many memories, like having a telephone bill skyrocketed to around $100 (exactly not common if you used phone for... phone call at that time). And of course downloading 10-20 MB Nintendo 64 ROM may took about 30 minutes. Nowadays you can easily download 1 or 2 GB files less than 5 minutes. Ahh... good old times :)

[@sonicgalaxy27]

Welp, I'm very glad I experience those type of old Windows PCs and so happy they are keeping these computers alive. I used to have those PCs, but not anymore because its outdated. Those old machines maybe outdated, but that doesn't mean it can fade from existences or history.

[@ChaseN194]

You know what ive found crazy is that, you needed to practically be a computer scientist to have a computer at one point. Now that same generation that could figure all this out on their own, has all they can do to figure out their iphone, which is infinitely easier than these old PCs

[@SeanFerree]

Waiting for that dialup to connect always seemed like forever. I think if someone was on the phone line it wouldn't connect either lol

[@BittyDaProto]

Damn that sound at the beginning 🤤

[@smugshrug]

loved that Logitech ball mouse as a kid. Somehow i played FPS games on it. Probably not very well, though..

[@brentsummers7377]

That is quite a fast machine for Windows 95 & the external modem would have been expensive as heck when it came out.

[@a_shrxydud]

pretty interesting. never experienced a computer this old in person, so seeing what connecting would have probably been like is cool

[@starkiller7278]

Ah, been a while since I've seen a floppy drive on a computer. Nice job with the power cord by the way 😂.

[@nathanxd9407]

Damn bro. I enjoyed the video. Also, the views man, that's insane!

[@tnsll]

thank you very much!

[@361punx]

My brain is off the charts with nostalgia.

[@codeninja1]

Ahh thanks for the nostalgia. When all I cared about was what skin my winamp was using and who was on mIRC.

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

Ah the good old days. I used to have that exact ViewSonic CRT in the mid 90’s. And the cool little Sony 14”.

[@Injinct]

Old computers required only like 64mb, but now with all the bloatware of windows, you couldn't even boot up with a whole gigabyte

[@tnsll]

I know right? I don’t need so many apps on my pc BRAND NEW

[@KratostheThird]

This was my childhood.

[@Chokluss]

this is so nostalgic, you can almost smell the plastics

[@forrandomsites3336]

I have an old proline laptop from like around 1999 that still works to this day. It has a Pentium 2 processor with 64mb ram, a 4gb hdd running windows 98se. The only thing that needs to be replaced is the actual casing, the plastic has started to become brittle. But I mainly use it for dos and old crpg games. It's actually damn amazing the hdd is still alive, despite sounding like a nuclear reactor and being used for long periods of time.

[@JohnSmith-iu8cj]

Beautiful monitor and pc, please keep them alive for future generations

[@malwaretestingfan270]

computers from 90s rocks

[@tnsll]

Absolutely!

[@grandtheftauto1233]

Blasts from the past thanks for sharing this relic with everyone

[@tnsll]

I’m glad to be able!

[@grandtheftauto1233]

@@tnsll I subscribed. Didn’t notice it was a smaller channel since the content was pretty well put together. Keep it up!! I’ll check out more videos

[@tnsll]

@@grandtheftauto1233 thank you so much!!

[@SL_PodCast_22lk]

Hmm...Pretty descent piece of Antique Desktop Computer set up...🙂Looks interesting ♥️✌️love from srilanka 🇱🇰

[@Eric_Stoneheart420]

The first computer i played on was a Windows 95, this is pure nostalgia.

[@LaurenceReeves]

That must have been a real budget PC back in the day, I don't remember Windows 95 being THAT slow!

[@Triddzz]

This is awesome 😂 This will be good showing your kids in another 100 years from now

[@brigirl13]

the vanilla bean noel in the background>>>>

[@test_user4504]

never throw that away, you may look back at it and remember some memories about it, or possibly using it

[@rebekahtaylor4830]

Lol showing my kids this hahaha ours was way slower as kids so funny they are so intrigued

[@roachtoasties]

I was surprised the dial-up number even worked.

[@tnsll]

I am too XD

[@matteofazio7845]

Dude blown the AC plug and then r4ped the serial port

[@0xffffffffffff]

Wow, this is a ViewSonic! I used to have the same CRT display back in the days...

[@tnsll]

I love this monitor, I used it alongside my gaming pc for a few years and absolutely loved it LOL. Best monitor I have

[@oguzhankarahan1737]

"Give her a second." Hahaha

[@tnsll]

She takes awhile but she’ll get there eventually 🤣🤣🤣

[@Lrr-Lanier-ridge-riders]

It’s crazy how my dad has a aol email still

[@tnsll]

Funny enough my parents and grandparents still use it LOL. And because I’m getting into all of this tech, I was convinced that I needed to get it to.

[@The_Gallowglass]

"It runs windows 95" Know what that means don't you? SIM CITY 2000!!!!

[@tannertolson]

It's amazing. I grew up with those

[@Mr-Hamter-yt]

that's cool, i would really want it in 1995

[@adamharris7775]

I had a real Windows 95 at my former beach house in NJ in 2013-2014.

[@geo58impala]

Nice video, it's very entertaining, but for the love of vintage computers please be careful, because if you hot-plug a serial port device, you risk frying the serial port. Same goes for ps/2 ports.

[@kellygunner7625]

Wow did I just see a dinosaur 🦕 walk by 🤣.boy that sound brings back memories 😳

[@Anthonyvideogame]

I miss the 90’s so much.

[@crazycoollady]

I do, too.

[@Vlaud]

Oh man this takes me back, blast to the past. Lol.

[@bengercak8391]

Honestly, I sometimes find it more interesting just looking at the files and programs that people still have on their old PCs lol

[@tnsll]

Agreed XD

[@bengercak8391]

@@tnsll Have those files and programs been on that PC since 1997ish?

[@tnsll]

@@bengercak8391 yah that sounds about right. I believe that they build the computer around 97’

[@WhosTheMorley]

It's great nostalgia but overtime we just had to get rid of it. It just got very slow and shitty to use. So we had to update. Part of life...

[@badboigaelo_sana1838]

has anyone ever co up with such a good lody, and forget it seconds later

[@gergom.8310]

This PC is faster than my Windows 10 💀

[@tnsll]

It’s faster than my windows 10 laptop for sure, which is funny. Same goes for the internet on that laptop too 🤣🤣

[@RetroSixGaming]

Back when tech was so cool (but dinosaur slow) to work with.

[@tnsll]

Yep!

[@CassieShakespeare]

You ARE a full-blown legend. 🏆🏆🏆

[@rdcastro61]

I remember down loading or trying to from napster on a dialup, took over night and only if I didn't lose connection

[@makaveli087]

Not sure how I just learned something from someone who clearly knows nothing about computers but my mind is blown at the claim you can still connect to America Online. So many questions...like actually having (paying) for an AOL account in modern day for example. Nice work.

[@MondySpartan]

Microsoft is, in fact, still offering an MSN Explorer subscription to this day for dial up users. The age of dial up has not really been gone for a tiniest part.

[@h2okitty478]

When I was a kid back in the early 2000s, my parents had a windows 95, and would always use it until it broke

[@royalmaist9385]

Straight up thought that the AOL logo was ARK : Survival Evolved

[@beboppalooka9897]

Very John Wilson. Good video

[@BurhanRana]

Great! also turn OFF turbo. (button in the front) yes, turn OFF... it will increase the CPU speed to 150MHZ instead of 75MHZ also it will be then shown in the front panel too.

[@Dante...]

Wow, that beast is almost as old as I am!

[@wistfulness]

7:25 I find it fascinating that the old CRT monitors screen refreshing was visible to see going from the top to bottom of the screen lmao.

[@seanhamilton4169]

If you were to perceive the cathode-ray tube monitor with your own eyes, you would not be able to perceive what you stated in your comment. In this video, the camera's shutter speed was not in sync with the cathode-ray tube's refresh rate.

[@dollayx8]

i feel like back to junior high school again

[@HauntFreak13]

8:32 ahhhh back when you could hear the sound your computer hard at work

[@jessehill9993]

My brain hurts as an avid tech, turbo was gone by PII era, refresh is changeable, dial up was never free and by the minute, turbo was a carry over from the 286 era for PC compatibility, damn it I’m not that old!

[@celebratelife865]

Hey! Awesome video! I bought an old Windows 95 machine yesterday and have a goal of getting it connected to the internet. This may be a stupid question... but do I actually need a landline connection/landline service through a provider to get it online? Or is here any way I can use my existing highspeed connection?

[@tnsll]

The one that I like to use is called Juno. With the free service you get 10 hours a month for free. It hasn’t let me down yet!

[@celebratelife865]

@@tnsll Thanks so much. 🩷

[@sunflowerlady5029]

I still remember this

[@myacidninjatheamazing1025]

I still have 4 or 5 AOL free trial discs from when I was a kid well after AOL was getting phased out. I was one of the first kids in my school to get broadband and wifi so being able to have that as a kid saved me from the probable horror that dial up was. I used dial up when i was like 3 and that was really it

[@noladol]

Oh wow. I forgot about Webshots Desktop. Nice.

[@ryanjones9881]

I wished i kept my first computer. Which was a compac presario. But I keep all my computers now. That was the same compac keyboard I had to.

[@NeuroPulse]

Man, you kind of rough with that old collector's item. It's funny, but I'd be more gentle if it was mine.

[@tnsll]

When I first got it I treated it like it was not mine. Almost white glove treatment. As the years went on, I noticed that it would get stuck. I got mad one day, so I hit it, coincidentally it fixed the problem. So, I am careful enough to not brake it 🤣🤣

[@spiele_maus]

I mean we also have some old PCs from the early 2000s, but the problem is that these don’t work anymore……however we still have an iPhone 3G which is still in daily use! It is connected to our old audio system in our kitchen and contains just tons of songs, and we use it pretty much every day to listen to music, (in other rooms we have newer systems with AirPlay, Spotify etc.) In order to import music on it we have an old MacBook from like 2010 or so which also just contains like 150 GB of music, nothing else lol

[@tnsll]

Honestly that’s awesome to hear that the phone still has a purpose! Thanks for keeping it working!

[@SomeGuyWhoLikesFNF]

some 1990's computers had modern keyboards back then

[@DominoIncogneeto]

I miss this technology so much ❤

[@somejackball]

looks like my old Doom 2 and Quake 1 gaming rig

[@ThomasBoyce5000]

If you remember this sound and get nostalgic for your childhood, don't forget to put your Geritol/Centrum Silver, fiber supplement, denture adhesive, and IcyHot on your shopping lists.

[@jegr3398]

Hey man c'mon, I'm only 42 😂