Unfortunately I DO know this image…
I don’t complain, my country’s internet is like one of the fastest in the world.
Trumpet Winsock.
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!
I remember images loading one line at a time and I get irritated at less than 40Mbps.
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
Oh god I feel old. Please don’t remind me of that.
Christ, that sound lives rent free in my head
I can still hear that image.
We were also loading 30kb webpages. Try to load anything from the last 10 years over 33,600
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.
Limitations of available technology at the time =/= limitations generally caused by shitty ISPs and/or IT teams not maintaining their infrastructure and equipment properly.
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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.
You know what’s worse that no internet? Slow internet.
Dialing attempt 4 of 5
“Guess I’ll check my email tomorrow…”
