24 in 1994
November 10th, 2007
Via Engadget: a hilarious “24” spoof from College Humor. It purports to be the “original” pilot for 24, using 1994 technology, complete with Windows 3.1, AOL chat rooms, dot matrix printers, the works. For those of you who remember hi-tech back then, it’s frakking hilarious.
This *was* hilarious, excellent! The sound of the modem dialling up was riotous, but the internet dropout due to the boss picking up the phone while Nina was online was the icing on the cake … bringing up all those times when my non-tech parents did the same thing. Great stuff, thanks!
Yeah, it all brings back great, but terrible memories. Remember 1200-baud modems? Remember seeing photos build up line by line? Remember the days of Prodigy and 25-cent-emails?
Ah, the good old days…
Not being American I don’t remember ‘Prodigy’; I suspect that was only over there? Ditto AOL; some of the jokes about that would have gone over my head. But some of the other things in that video were priceless. ‘Jack’ dashing off to the phone booth every time he needed to contact Nina … heh.
> Remember 1200-baud modems?
Ah, I can beat that! I used to use *accoustic modems* – the gizmos that you’d couple to the actual telephone handset – in the very early days. 110 baud I think? I had the modem hooked up to a VT100 terminal so I could dial in to the university machine.
Amazing how fast things can move. Particularly when I myself am starting to slow down …