• @[email protected]
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    72 years ago

    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!

  • @[email protected]
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    22 years ago

    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.

  • Catweazle
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    02 years ago

    @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

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      12 years ago

      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.

  • doomkernel
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    92 years ago

    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.

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      Or how about the nearly hour long process to burn a $1 blank CD and have it fail as a penniless teenager

      • @[email protected]
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        52 years ago

        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.

    • aeternum
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      22 years ago

      it was worse when you wanted a movie. You’d wait a week, only to find out it was german scat porn.

  • Matricaria
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    22 years ago

    Why are you on aussie.zone when you are clearly from Germany?

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    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    52 years ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]OP
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    12 years ago

    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.

  • aeternum
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    I remember spending a week downloading an awesome film. Only to find out at the end of was scat porn

    • @[email protected]
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      32 years ago

      Or adaptive jpegs, where did they go?

      I mean the second last rez is probably less than a third of the last one…

  • @[email protected]
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    22 years ago

    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.