trumpet winsock to get onto the internet with windows 8 bit?

other fun times was loading slurp on my university dialup to get internet and then have my account blocked and trying to explain it wasnt me to the bofh.

Hardly anyone had dial-up here. We had cable. Using the same cable as tv, you do need a thingie installed indoors for the internet though, and of course a cable modem. You plug the modem into the thingie, an internet cable in the modem and PC and Bob's your uncle!

Having cable could cause problems for me when I was part of a gaming clan with English people. The server was in the UK too, and all members had dial-up, except me. The guy that ran the server and clan kept thinking I was cheating as he said I moved so fast. I wouldn't even have known how to begin cheating in that game. It was just me having a much faster connection than him on dial-up.
His complaints gave himself away as a cheater though as he moved unbelievably fast, even for me on my fast connection. No way could he do that stuff on dial-up so HE himself was a cheater.
It was tiring at times to hear more of his complaints and not trusting me.
We did have a lot of fun though! Sometimes getting on the server, waiting for people to arrive to play, and having a great convo with another member, not playing at all, haha. Using the server as chatbox.
And I did meet most members of my clan when I went to the UK on holiday for a week :)

Another UK guy joined later on and we clicked tremendously! I met him when I went on another holiday to the UK. He and his wife invited me to stay in a caravan on his driveway. I could sleep in there with my 2 kids and use the rest of the house during the day and the loo during the night too as they left the front door unlocked for us.

So I met a lot of great people because of that game & clan :) Good times for sure!