×5×: "you don't got mail"

dunnnn duuun dun nun dun nun ksssshhhhh.......

Error with winsock.dll 😁

It hung up and you had to try connecting again.

I’d wait a half hour while playing Descent

It gave up

Yo mama be screaming for you to get off the damn inter net while she's on the phone with aunt Heidi, so it'll it never reach attempt 5.

Do not tell yo mama that technically you never managed to get on to the "inter net". Trust me on this one.

Set your modem string to go for more than 5.

https://www.computerhope.com/atcom.htm

The monitor would flicker and in its reflection you would see the shadowy figure take a step closer to you. You dared not turn around but you knew what would happen if it ever got to 5.

I would play MechWarrior 3 on campaign mode and try again in half an hour or however long it took me to die a few times.

The computer would blow up

I was a weird kid and had this growing up

The old memories of seeing this for 5 minutes as a kid just to be able to load the espn homepage to see football scores and a few images

Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgqEIp2YmtE

There was a time when I connected my nextel via USB to my computer and used it to connect to 36k internet and played runescape all day...

Good times punching giants for big bones.