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I was about to ask how much they cost but you’d already edited your post. I remember hitting 48.8/56k in ~1996 after I got a modem for Christmas (aged 5). Now

I was about to ask how much they cost but you’d already edited your post. I remember hitting 48.8/56k in ~1996 after I got a modem for Christmas (aged 5). Now I’m on 1000/50mbit, or ~17.5 thousand times faster than my first connection if my math is correct.

lokedhs 4y ago
My first connection was 1200 bps, and now I have 2 Gb/s. That's over 1 million times faster. Downloading a program for my Atari ST at maybe 500 kB in size took an hour. Now it would be difficult to even measure the time needed. It's difficult to explain just how slow downloading things used to be.