Baud, the canonical unit for transfer speeds, was defined in 1926[0], five years before this guy was born. It was probably somewhat obscure during his teens, b

Baud, the canonical unit for transfer speeds, was defined in 1926[0], five years before this guy was born. It was probably somewhat obscure during his teens, but he isn't even much older than the inventors of the Internet who are pushing 80. And, subjectively, it seems like connection speeds were far more present in the Zeitgeist of the 90s. I distinctly remember going from 28kbps to 56kbps to 112kbps, but I would have to look up my current connection's specs. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baud