If you don't rermember using Windows 3.11 or at least Windows 95 or 98, you are probably too young for me. Alternatively, if you remember using Windows 1.0, you're probably way too old for me, and also, why were you using Windows 1.0.
@Elizafox also for the longest time i thought modems made all the same noise when connecting until i saw a video about the last living modem service in american (that being orange lmfao) where it sounded different than the pop culture AOL sound
@illyBytes Oh yeah. Some people got second phone lines for Internet. Professionals got ISDN or even T1 lines (which cost a fortune, only like baller consultants got those).
The Internet was... excruciatingly slow. Even for the time.
@illyBytes I remember when I was a kid, up until around 2003ish, I would go to the library to download things, because my school didn't have Internet yet (it was EXTREMELY behind the times actually), and it was the fastest Internet around. They had a T1. Unspeakably fast for the era. I'd use winrar and split things up so they'd fit on floppies.
When my friends got cable Internet, that changed things on an level that's hard to even describe.
@Elizafox@illyBytes I remember my first DSL modem around 2001 I think, from AT&T. It was shaped like a stingray, and was hot garbage because I was using BeOS as my main OS at the time, as well as exploring Linux, and neither of those OSes had drivers for it (it was USB based and meant to connect to just one PC). I actually had to scrounge up a crappy PC with Windows 98 whose sole purpose was to be a gateway, and then figure out how to share its connection to the DSL modem with my other PCs over Ethernet. It was my first real foray into networking.
Thankfully about a year after I started DSL service they replaced that junk with an actual DSL gateway so I could just plug my switch directly into it.
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