So you can’t complain about Wifi speeds unless you’re prehistoric?
Yes. Nobody is ever allowed to complain about anything because things were so much worse in the before-times.
In the UK we had free numbers that would cut out after an hour of use and you had to redial, so you had to do downloads or uploads is chunks
I loved the original NetZero. You could use the ISP phone number and set up a manual connection with Windows dialer… viola! Free dial-up with no ads or shitty dialer software!
ATDT5551234
Christ, that sound lives rent free in my head
I can still hear that image.
My kid actually complained that the internet is slow when he was getting 24 MB/s on a Steam download.
When I was his age I got 300 bytes/s.
We were also loading 30kb webpages. Try to load anything from the last 10 years over 33,600
I had to deal with this shit until 2007. Then we got a shitty WISP the was marginally better.
Dialup noises still give me tingles. Like I’m about to experience something fun, new, and crazy soon.
Twenty minutes to download a 1MB image.
Yes, really. 9600 baud modem.
ASCII art was popular then, and before: https://www.asciiart.eu/
You know what’s worse that no internet? Slow internet.
I remember waiting half a day for a youtube video to load, then leaving the computer on until the evening so I could show it to my brother when he got home.
Dialing attempt 4 of 5
“Guess I’ll check my email tomorrow…”
Never had that because it was too expensive to be worth the trouble.
