- crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish15 hours
I remember images loading one line at a time and I get irritated at less than 40Mbps.
10 hoursSo you can’t complain about Wifi speeds unless you’re prehistoric?
- 10 hours
Yes. Nobody is ever allowed to complain about anything because things were so much worse in the before-times.
- rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish14 hours
We were also loading 30kb webpages. Try to load anything from the last 10 years over 33,600
- 15 hours
Limitations of available technology at the time =/= limitations generally caused by shitty ISPs and/or IT teams not maintaining their infrastructure and equipment properly.
- 13 hours
My kid actually complained that the internet is slow when he was getting 24 MB/s on a Steam download.
When I was his age I got 300 bytes/s.
- 10 hours
I loved the original NetZero. You could use the ISP phone number and set up a manual connection with Windows dialer… viola! Free dial-up with no ads or shitty dialer software!
- 10 hours
In the UK we had free numbers that would cut out after an hour of use and you had to redial, so you had to do downloads or uploads is chunks
- 14 hours
Twenty minutes to download a 1MB image.
Yes, really. 9600 baud modem.
ASCII art was popular then, and before: https://www.asciiart.eu/
- 14 hours
Dialup noises still give me tingles. Like I’m about to experience something fun, new, and crazy soon.
Sorry but the image has no effect on me due to a lack of grating/screaming machine noises.
