Re:US Robotics 56k Modems
by stickfigure on Saturday October 30, 2021 @12:57AM
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The images on this site load very slowly... I very much hope this is because someone at USR deliberately throttled each connection to 56k. Retail performance art is an underexplored niche.
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There is a twitch streamer (kitboga) who role-plays as an elderly lady. He baits scammers into calling him and messes with them for a few hours.
His setup is quite elaborate. Fake bank accounts, google play store, etc. One of the more subtle parts is a chrome extension he wrote that adds a random delay to the load time for web elements to better simulate an ancient home desktop and poor internet connection.
He's a very proficient developer. He made 95% of internet sites.