Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, then again on the last letter. Press Escape to cancel.
A few of the words
- SCREECH
- The dial-up handshake — that legendary shriek of tones — was actually two modems negotiating speed and protocol with each other before a single byte of data could pass.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- NETSCAPE
- Netscape Navigator launched in 1994 and quickly became the window through which millions of Americans first explored the web, at its peak holding around 90% of browser market share.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- PING
- A ping measures the round-trip time for a data packet — in the dial-up era, a ping of 200 milliseconds was considered pretty respectable.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- CHATROOM
- AOL chat rooms in the mid-1990s could hold up to 23 people at once — a hard server limit that felt both cozy and maddening when a room you wanted was already full.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Logging On: a free large-print word search
Logging On — a free, large-print word search celebrating the screech, the wait, and the thrill of early home internet.
About Logging On
Before Wi-Fi was a given and broadband was a dream, getting online meant tying up the phone line and listening to a handshake of static and squeal that became one of the era's most unmistakable sounds. A page might take a full minute to paint itself down the screen, image stripe by stripe, while the little hourglass spun patiently. Chat rooms, away messages, and the electric novelty of an inbox with something new in it made every session feel like stepping into the future.
How to play
- 1Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last — the trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
- 2Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
- 3It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
- 4Choose a difficulty.Relaxed, Classic or Challenging set those directions and how much the word list helps — never the grid size. Tap the A buttons at the top to enlarge the letters, or pinch the grid.
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