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What is something that's crazier than the wildest dreams of any ~1970s nerd, but exists today? I'll start with an easy one: (thelemmy.club)
submitted 1 week ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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[–] 24 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I just did the math on network speed the other day. I remember our local dial up ISP upgrading to 56k from 28.8 and it blew me away, although I rarely connected above 33.6. I'm currently on 1200 mbps, nearly 23,000 times faster than 56kbps and about 37,000x faster than the 33.6 I actually received.

I can transfer in one second what took about 10 hours before. A movie I just watched would have taken over 95 days to download at 90s speeds.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    Yet now, basic websites take longer to load! Lol

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  • [–] 25 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    For a reminder of how quick it could be :

    https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

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  • [–] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    My boy experienced lag for the first time about a year ago while playing fortnite. Another player was rubber banding about the place.

    He looks at me and says "bro why is our internet so bad?"

    I was legitimately amazed that he'd never seen that happen before, and equally surprised that I'd just sort of forgotten about it myself.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Lag....you don't know lad till you tried playing Quake online from New Zealand (that place that is often left off maps)...in the late 90's.

    I scoff at your 200ms ping, try 4500ms (on a good day); that is right, you spot turn and shoot. Three and a half seconds later you die; because you shot at empty space and someone saw you.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    My first attempt at online gaming was 90s. Tried playing counter strike using a 56k dialup. My dumb child ass was waiting for it to load. Every 2 minutes it would refresh and the screen would fill up with text of who killed me.

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