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I would raise and contort my hand in sync with the dial-up tones when my friend was around to convince them I was a shaman
"One does not simply access the worldy wider web, my child. You have to sing to it."
When was the last time you heard the storm? '96 for me. Had either a T1 or DSL connection after that.
back in '12 for me, we switched to cable and suddenly we had a landline and internet at the same time -- it was genuinely crazy
Wow! That's crazy late to have still been using dialup. Did they ever get better than 56k baud?
no idea, I just remember a dramatic increase in my online time around that period. Also my dad going around drilling holes everywhere so that we could run a cable to everyone's room back in the days when you assembled a PC from parts you found at a car boot sale
I remember occasionally seeing a 64k connection speed on the dialup at my parents' old place before they finally got broadband. No idea if it was accurate, as I understand 56k to be a physical limitation on phone lines, but it's what windows would claim at least.