I had to deal with this shit until 2007. Then we got a shitty WISP the was marginally better.
Limitations of available technology at the time =/= limitations generally caused by shitty ISPs and/or IT teams not maintaining their infrastructure and equipment properly.
Dialing attempt 4 of 5
“Guess I’ll check my email tomorrow…”
I remember images loading one line at a time and I get irritated at less than 40Mbps.
Set phasers to BONK!
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.
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.
We were also loading 30kb webpages. Try to load anything from the last 10 years over 33,600
there’s a few videos on youtube about people loading up dialup and trying to use today’s internet on it. It is not fun.
Yeah, but thats in large part due to the fact that people stopped trying to optimize, because why optimize when most people have gigantic firehose connections that can just use their raw bandwidth to overcome issues.
A similar problem exists with other aspects of computing, lack of optimization and just brute forcing it with modern GPU/CPU power
There was a time when you either had phone service or internet. But not both at the same time.
And if some bastard tried calling you when you were on the internet, they weren’t your friend any more.
There was a code you could use when dialing your provider to disable the 2nd call tone for a call. Put that in your phone number for dialing and your friends would get a busy signal, as god intended.
edit: that still exists, *70
I BEGGED my mother for a second line, so I could stay online longer, but she wouldn’t get one :(
I remember this and I complain about wifi. Americans are getting scammed on internet speed.
I don’t complain, my country’s internet is like one of the fastest in the world.
Wifi is not internet.
If your internet is slow, yeah, that’s a service/country problem.
Wifi is slow for a bajillion reasons completely unrelated to the service. The biggest one being modems/routers out-of-the-box defaulting to the same channel – particularly a problem when everyone in the same building has the same damn ISP-issued modem.
Trumpet Winsock.
Back when your computer picked up the phone and called some machine far away.
Those AOL CDs you got in the mail.
I recognise that isn’t MS Sans Serif, that text is also anti-aliased and has kerning.
I believe broadband is, generally, a net negative for the human species.
Its always on, leading to a constant conveyor belt of fresh horrors.
Its always on, so theres no seperation from internet and anything else, because you can’t just log out of the internet anymore.
High speed/Always on internet means goods we used to own physically and use as we please, have been converted into goods we just perpetually rent and can be taken from us at any time.
always on broadband was genuinely the turning point in ruining the internet.
It’s what brought internet to the masses. That’s what always kills <any subject>.
