Indeed, I started in the days of 40x25 video terminals at home, and new-fangled stuff like modems were only just starting to appear (my first one was 300 baud).

Indeed, I started in the days of 40x25 video terminals at home, and new-fangled stuff like modems were only just starting to appear (my first one was 300 baud). Getting a job and having 9600 baud VT100 terminals was truely magic (they still have a teletype for printing work orders on). However, I've never been tolerant of lag - having a time gap between doing something and having a response just adds to mental workload, it's friction between me and the machine (especially pronounced with IDE's that try to 'help' by taking a second or two to come up with a suggestion, by which time it'll have been left in the dust).