What is DUW??

Title says it all, what is DUW??

I always think it's "Do you want?" but that's got to be wrong...

http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/DUW

Dial Up Warning makes sense as it is usually in conjunction with image threads.

Dial-up warning. Lots of pictures.

What's funny is, for those of us who used Dial Up when the internet first started, we don't even think about someone not knowing what it means.

For those of you who haven't known anything but high-speed internet, you just go huh? :confuzd:

I wish I'd known this back in the days when I would put up topics full of pictures on another forum. I always put "avoid if you have a slow system"

I actually had people who would be mad because their computers had crashed ~_~

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Originally Posted by rabernet

What's funny is, for those of us who used Dial Up when the internet first started, we don't even think about someone not knowing what it means.

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ha ha.... I said something about DOS the other day and someone didn't know what I was refering to. Some younger people aren't even familar with someof the equipment we used to use.....floppy disks, digitizers, etc....It is sad that even though we aren't senior citizens yet....we can "show our age" discussing outdated computer stuff.

...does anyone still use a low speed dialup connection anymore?

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Originally Posted by rabernet

What's funny is, for those of us who used Dial Up when the internet first started, we don't even think about someone not knowing what it means.

For those of you who haven't known anything but high-speed internet, you just go huh? :confuzd:

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ahh the good ol days of 14.4k
if you think dialup is bad i could only imagine how bad 9600 baud modems were

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Originally Posted by nixer

ahh the good ol days of 14.4k
if you think dialup is bad i could only imagine how bad 9600 baud modems were

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A few years back I was cleaning out my garage and found a box of old computer equipment. There was a 300 baud modem in the box, it had been battery powered by two D cell batteries and had those ear cups for setting your phones handset in. I just laughed. I kinda wish I hadn't thrown it out now.

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Originally Posted by nixer

ahh the good ol days of 14.4k
if you think dialup is bad i could only imagine how bad 9600 baud modems were

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oh yes and if anyone is wondering the first modem consumers could buy was a 300 baud modem in the 60's it was it was 300 bits per second

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Originally Posted by MarkS

A few years back I was cleaning out my garage and found a box of old computer equipment. There was a 300 baud modem in the box, it had been battery powered by two D cell batteries and had those ear cups for setting your phones handset in. I just laughed. I kinda wish I hadn't thrown it out now.

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lol for some reason mark i knew you had one of those.

heck check out this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_M...puter_Products

copied from that page:

The modem market in the 1970's was very simple and stagnant. Modems tended to sell at US$1 per baud. Hayes saw no need to be different — the original Hayes 300 baud modem sold for US$299 retail. At that price point, Hayes could build a "Cadillac of modems", using high-quality components, an extruded aluminum case, and a plexiglas front panel with a number of LED indicators.

and yet you can get a 56k modem for under 5$ now