Them days of growing up, downloading mp3’s at 3.35 kb/s transfer speeds on dial up and going “Fuck yeah this is the high life, no getting better than this” lol.
I remember downloading a song on P2P downloaders taking hours or sometimes even a whole day. Now I can download a Blu Ray rip of a 1080p movie in less than 10 minutes.
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 kids will never know the pain of being denied internet access because I’m waiting for a phone call.
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!
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 I’ve 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.
I remember the times when I was raging against slow loading because we were paying for the internet by the minute.
Now, this does not keep me from still raging against internet or websites taking a second too long. I got spoiled by progress.
I still remember my love/hate relationship with NetZero as a child. Wouldn’t have been able to surf as much without their free service. In the early days I was able to connect to the internet, then kill the process that was serving up that annoying ad banner along the bottom. I felt like a genius putting it to the man!
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…
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Yeah this one hits home for me.
1200 baud in 1994. I’m ancient.
56K was my intro to the internet. Not as ancient, but pretty close. Now I have gigabit, so instead of waiting for a week, only donwloading at night, now I can get a movie in minutes. What a world to live in.
Baudbrand
Dsl wasn’t offered in my area until 2012 ish. Up till then I was using crappy 3g wireless dongles or my last 56k modem which had built in ethernet ports (still have that modem just in case). I feel this meme.
I thought I was rural but you’re a whole different level
I would assume he’s getman.
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.
By then the lightning fast speeds were nothing to me but BLINDING
I remember running Ulduar in Warcraft back in the day with over 2000 ping. It was the only option.
Still know those fights considering I had to know them 2 seconds ahead of time.
Bane speaks the truth!
