Another saver of long-ago emails here, going back to my initial Internet use in December, 1995, with what then was gte.net. My first modem achieved 14.4Kbps at

Another saver of long-ago emails here, going back to my initial Internet use in December, 1995, with what then was gte.net. My first modem achieved 14.4Kbps at best, but only if it wasn't raining; for some reason, speeds dropped dramatically when the outside phone lines got wet. Thought I was in tall cotton when I got a 33.6Kbps modem. Even then, it still took over two hours to download each new version of whichever browser I was using at the time, and I’d have to wait until fairly late on Sunday night so neither wife nor daughter would need to use the phone.