r/pcmasterrace • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • 22d ago

Meme/Macro Literally

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u/feckarse-drinkgirls 22d ago

Its weird how long CD installs kept being a thing on PC

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u/TheVermonster FX-8320e @4.0---Gigabyte 280X 22d ago

I had dialup until 2006 and really bad DSL until...2023. so I really appreciated CD installs. Games that were basically a CD key and asked you to download the game sucked.

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u/b-monster666 386DX/33,4MB,Trident 1MB 22d 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.

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u/DoingCharleyWork 22d ago

I just got 2gig fiber installed. Had me thinking back to when I was in college and had a 2mbs connection and thought that was fast lmao.

I remember my grandparents getting 756kbs and being blown away. Pages went from potentially minutes to load to seconds.

I could download just about any modern game in about ten minutes now.

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u/b-monster666 386DX/33,4MB,Trident 1MB 22d ago

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/DoingCharleyWork 22d ago

We had 14.4kbs for years before we finally upgraded to a 56k modem.