The sound of a 56K Modem dial tone was like heroin coursing through my veins. Probably because the Internet was still a rabbit-hole back then, and not the comme

The sound of a 56K Modem dial tone was like heroin coursing through my veins. Probably because the Internet was still a rabbit-hole back then, and not the commercialized echo chamber it is now. I would spend hours just hopping from link to link, grabbing some software, music, and other things. I don't really suffer from a nostalgia about them days, since I was naive and young, and didn't understand concepts like privacy, so I was very exposed as an Internet user (although I made sure my systems were hardened and used oldskool antivirus programs to catch malware). Now I'm on a gigabit line and I can spawn two Windows VMs at the same time whilst running Spotify and other programs in the background. If I had that kind of hardware back in the day, I would be a different person entirely. So now I just relish my connection speed and beefy setup, and savor it, because the olden days were difficult when you wanted to grab a 700MB CD from an FTP index site.