Back in the dialup days, waiting for a web page to load for over 1 minute was about it. More than that, and one would either move on or treat the medium differe

Back in the dialup days, waiting for a web page to load for over 1 minute was about it. More than that, and one would either move on or treat the medium different: for example, instead of interacting with the webpage, one would set it to load and go do something else, and come back later. Or give up. There was an alternative, though: going down to the internet cafe to get fast access. The existence of the alternative affected one's perception of the "slowness", just as being stuck in traffic in LA made me wish for a proper subway system. No quantification, just anecdotal observations.