Until 6 months ago I had 2Mb/s (with a tailwind) DSL that had a consistent 10% packet loss.
I feel I have earned my 2Gb/s fibre!
Sadly I was born in it. 14.4 squad represent. What’s sad though is that I still live in it. Maybe 1mb down on a good day. Sad face.
@ParanoidPizzas, who has never had the joy of downloading a game with a 56k modem and receiving a phone call in the middle of it, has not had a real internet experience
I remember the fear any time something was greater than 1MB. My first download on any new computer was always a download manager to try and avoid the constant drop-outs and restarts.
Kids will not understand the pain of downloading a 3mb file for 25minutes straight and then realize is a virus/porn/gore/etc instead of what you want.
Or how about the nearly hour long process to burn a $1 blank CD and have it fail as a penniless teenager
Or those 100 CDs for cheap of which you could literally peel off the data(or whatever you peeled off :-)
Got a whole bunch from my SOs father, after like 7 tries I told him, he’s answer yes “I never got them working”.
Got like 10 2GB SD cards he gave me too, but I was prepared and they all were like non functional.
A gigabyte was a whole lot of data back in the day.
it was worse when you wanted a movie. You’d wait a week, only to find out it was german scat porn.
Why are you on aussie.zone when you are clearly from Germany?
This is me with my parents. When a webpage takes a moment to load, they’ll look at me and be like, why isn’t this loading?
And then I’ll be like, bruh, back in the day, I had to stop using the internet, because you wanted to make a phone call. You’ll survive waiting a goddamn femtosecond longer.My first modem was 1200 baud, Compuserve was the only internet provider costing around $7 an hour and was a long distance call that was 50¢ a minute.
Waiting forever to download a single .jpg … and having someone pick up the phone.
Loving the discussion & history here.
I started my online journey on a bleeding edge (and very expensive) 28.8k modem. I still remember the amazing feeling of speed migrating to 33.6k and eventually 56k. We were semi-rural so while the eventual availability of DSL was game changing, our lines were so bad it was less reliable that dial-up. If it rained we had no internet whatsoever.
So glad things have moved on significantly since then.
I remember spending a week downloading an awesome film. Only to find out at the end of was scat porn
Porn pictures loading line by line… I see a nipple! That’s a nipple!
Or adaptive jpegs, where did they go?
I mean the second last rez is probably less than a third of the last one…
When your brother’s girlfriend calls and it disconnects your downloads. And in general not using the Internet when someone is on the phone lol.
Need to use the * codes to disable the call waiting tones… I think it was * 72?
Yeah this one hits home for me.
Yeah, speed demon 9600 baud on CompuServe
Bane speaks the truth!
