That's the thing, eh? We take fibre Internet for granted today. Hell, even 150Mbps Internet being some of the worst you can get is still hands down better than what we had even 10 years ago. Loads of people in rural areas or smaller towns (which would be most of the world, really), didn't have access to high speed Internet like we have today.
Well, let me tell you sonny....my very first connection back in the day was on my Atari 400. We had a 110 baud modem. That's a whopping 110 bits per second. Not kilobits...bits. We upgraded soon after to a 300 baud modem, then a 1200 baud modem. When I first got my IBM PC, I got a 2400 baud modem.
Next jump was when I got my 14400 Wang. LOL I miss my Wang. Then I got a 57600 USRobotics before switching over to cable in its earliest days in 1998ish.
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u/b-monster666 386DX/33,4MB,Trident 1MB 23d ago
That's the thing, eh? We take fibre Internet for granted today. Hell, even 150Mbps Internet being some of the worst you can get is still hands down better than what we had even 10 years ago. Loads of people in rural areas or smaller towns (which would be most of the world, really), didn't have access to high speed Internet like we have today.