Dial-Up Modem Nostalgia
Users reminisce about the slow speeds, high costs, and challenges of early dial-up modems like 9600bps, 2400bps, and 56kbps in the 1990s and earlier, often contrasting them with modern internet.
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You think 56kbit/s is slow, but in early Internet times, people communicated with 9600bit/s modems. We sometimes had to be satisfied with upper half of the body only.
Consider yourself lucky. I had a 2400 bps modem in 1995, my first year on the internet. The ISP recommended 9600 bps but everything seemed ok for 14 year old me. IRC was fine and most websites didn't have too many pictures.
There was Compuserve dialup. Expensive and slow as molasses.
My first modem was 2.4kbps. Thankfully google didn't exist back then
reminds me of the days of dial up modem.
I don’t miss how slow it loaded on a late-90s 56 kbps modem!
Have you lived through 9600bps or 14.4k to 20Mbps?
What you mean is, a couple of decades ago you got a 56k modem.
21.6kbps dial up was pretty terrible
Modems used to cost $1/baud!