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I don't know how anyone can use the modern internet with dial up. It's got to be useless for all but email.
by chrisco255 1y ago
I don't know how anyone can use the modern internet with dial up. It's got to be useless for all but email.
- nosioptar 1y agoI think that's basically what they use it for. Sites that work well with lynx are OK on dial up.
- grishka 1y agoI'm sure HN is perfectly usable over dial-up as well.
- chrisco255 1y agoFor comments, yeah but to read any of the links would probably take a while.
- _moof 1y agoYou guys are reading the links?
- thecosas 1y agoI know a few news sites have low bandwidth versions, which are arguable way better than the auto-play video and ads plastered across their “normal” sites. A couple examples: https://lite.cnn.com/ https://lite.cnn.com/ https://text.npr.org/ https://text.npr.org/
- mortenjorck 1y agoI recently got throttled to ~1Mb/s for going over my mobile data allotment (which incidentally got me to finally switch to an MVNO), and I was amazed at how insufficient a speed that was once considered “broadband” was in 2025. It was basically unusable; sites took 20-30 seconds to load and scrolling a timeline was an exercise in futility. I literally cannot imagine 56K on the modern web.
- dawnerd 1y agoI used sub mb internet on a cruise and the ping wasn’t even that bad but trying to load anything other than HN was a real pain. 56k was pretty bad even back then, don’t even know how it would be remotely usable today.
- dylan604 1y agoOnly if the email client is set to not download images.