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I’m embarrassed to say this on HN, but straight up I thought 9600 baud connections were the shit in the late eighties - who would ever need more bandwidth than

by rcurry 5y ago

I’m embarrassed to say this on HN, but straight up I thought 9600 baud connections were the shit in the late eighties - who would ever need more bandwidth than this?!? Now I get pissed off when the 4K video on my phone stutters for a second.

mceachen 5y ago
I made fun of my friend for buying a 9600 baud modem. Because, _duh_: nobody can read faster than 600 baud.
- mcv 5y ago
  I would be impressed by that. Our first modem was 300 baud, and that's apparently exactly the speed you can still keep up with the text as it comes in.