The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder for April 01, 2022
March 31, 2022
April 02, 2022
Transcript:
Granddad: Boy, where's Riley? Huey: He's on the computer. Granddad: You know he's not supposed to be on that thing unsupervised. I've heard about all that filth on the internet. Huey: It's under control, granddad. Don't worry... I think we have the best protection money can buy. Granddad: Which is...? Huey: Our pathetic modem. If he tries to download any adult pictures, he should be of legal age by the time they're finished. Granddad: Hey, lucky us...
bkeys1 over 2 years ago
Remember dial up modems? Don’t miss them…
Ellis97 over 2 years ago
Adios, dial up.
Flatworm over 2 years ago
After spending years using the old Racal-Vadic modems, you know, the ones where you jammed the phone receiver into a couple of rubber grommets on top of a box about the size of a couple of loaves of bread, that would run 150-baud, when the Hayes Smartmoden 1200 came out I thought that the modem had been perfected. After all, it now transmitted text as fast as I could read it.
christelisbetty over 2 years ago
Only got rid of dial-up when they jacked up the price for the land line to where it was almost as much as the Wi-Fi…….plus the Windows XP was on it’s death bed.