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As AOL bins dial-up for good, it's impossible to fully state the impact it had on gaming and the internet - but we've tried
What did dial-up internet gaming mean to you?
I'd sit in that eerie glow of the CRT computer screen until late at night, scouring pages speculating about how one could obtain the Triforce in Ocarina of Time. There wasn't something horrible creeping around every corner, and when your 56k connection would spend minutes loading in a page chock-full of faked screenshots of dreams come to life, you really did desperately want to believe them. Nothing special about that on the face of it (although laptops weren't that common), but the secret here was that his dad had some kind of work internet service that meant we could use dial-up for free.
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