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Which is absurd when you think that the internet used to be usable on 14.4k modems. I remember having to plan to take up hours of time on our phone line to dow
by olliej 3y ago
Which is absurd when you think that the internet used to be usable on 14.4k modems.
I remember having to plan to take up hours of time on our phone line to download giant files that were smaller than many basic webpages these days (ignoring things like photos where there's obviously a basic size/quality tradeoff + more pixels)
- layer8 3y agoYes, 1 Mbps was actually high-speed internet 25 years ago.
- genewitch 3y agoWhen i first moved to where i live now DSL had a waitlist, so i tried both a verizon hotspot (myfi!) and dialup. Dialup with HTML gmail (for slow connections!) took minutes to load. IRC was completely usable, but hangouts was not. danluu's website would have loaded just fine, as an example. I just remembered that after getting DSL if more than one person decided to watch a youtube video the pings went up in the 1000ms range.