12tgood

Not looking for a smart ass answer, I already know this is a stupid question ha. But I just can't figure out what the hell 56k means! Can someone please take 30 seconds and explain this to me? Lol thanks guys

SedanMan08

56k = 56kilobites per second. refers to how fast your computer transmits on dial-up.

12tgood

Do what is the relationship to cars? Or is it's saying that the post may or may not take longer to load..?

MastaShaKe_88

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when people put 56k no(or **** like that..) theres usually big pictures or a buncha pics

SedanMan08

Means if you got dial up it'll take awhile to load said pictures/video.

12tgood

Oh alright got it. I was thinking it had something to do with 56k miles on the car but that made no sense in a lot of situations haha. Thanks a lot guys! Now you can all laugh at me... Lol

SedanMan08

No prob. not everyone on here is a douche bag .. although you could have Googled it..

Getaway_Driver

Looks like question was answered. I'll leave it be.

Zdeuce4

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lmao. we're so far passed dial up that people are makin threads about it now... lol

volsfan92

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I was wondering about that too lol Glad i didnt have to ask

12tgood

Glad I could help haha

Frogstofall

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So true. Geez, I remember getting on BBS's with my 9600 and 14,400 dial up connections!! 56k was too expensive!!! Haha!

I feel old now....

ColeMart

I still have dial up. Thank god for smart phones. Mine comp usually dialed up 24kbps. Fastest it has ever dialed was 26.4kbps. I'm not even sure the last time I used it.

insylem

K = short for Kilo = Thousand, or x 10^3

56K = 56, 000

riceburner

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56k my ass theres no pics in this thread!!

Tstonee

Wow.. I've wondered this for so long but never wanted to ask.. lol
Glad someone asked!

Getaway_Driver

LOL
For those of you who've never heard of 56K, how old are you?
It's not too long ago that internet connection began speeding up. I can't imagine you guys have never heard of dial-up connection.

arkkornkid

I'm right there with ya.... I remember frying my 9600 during a thunderstorm and upgrading to a 14.4, and then whooping some ass on the trivia room of the BBS I got on.

for a good laugh catch the movie Hackers... to hear the tech talk from that time period is hilarious now.

07SSYellow

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jmz250

God I feel old...I almost started this post with "Well sonny, when I was your age..."

insylem

lol I havn't had Dial-Suck since 2001. Wow that was 10 years ago.

BIG SS TC

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but really who has 56k now

EmperorJJ1

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wow i remember our first family comp with windows 3.1 and we had aol at the time. i just remember it was so slow the only thing we could do is e-mail nothing else would load. worse off is how expensive was aol to just have e-mail

SSSnoop

I remember trying to play Unreal Tournament on dial up against my bud, who was cable modem at the time. The **** looked like a ninja - I'd see a flash of him, then I'd be dead. Using a 56k modem on Prodigy, where you would pray to get a connection at 28k.

As far as 14k, I'll show my age a little - I used to dial up on 14k to get onto Usenet to download **** - you would have to download several sections of text, then UUDecode to get the pic. Half the time the decode would fail, and you would have been stuck with 30 minutes of download time and a lot of frustration.....

Then came the sites where you would ftp.....

EmperorJJ1

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LOL thats funny bro