Public internet access did coincide with appearance of 14.4kbit/s modems here (Serbia) yet 9600 "baud" was actually more common, but you still rarely got that s

Public internet access did coincide with appearance of 14.4kbit/s modems here (Serbia) yet 9600 "baud" was actually more common, but you still rarely got that speed out of them. Still, I don't ever remember needing hours to download a tiny wav file (though I mostly looked for MIDI music as that was long songs in a few kb).