Them days of growing up, downloading mp3's at 3.35 kb/s transfer speeds on dial up and going "Fuck yeah this is the high life, no getting better than this" lol.

I remember the times when I was raging against slow loading because we were paying for the internet by the minute.

Now, this does not keep me from still raging against internet or websites taking a second too long. I got spoiled by progress.

My kids will never know the pain of being denied internet access because I'm waiting for a phone call.

This is me with my parents. When a webpage takes a moment to load, they'll look at me and be like, why isn't this loading?
And then I'll be like, bruh, back in the day, I had to stop using the internet, because you wanted to make a phone call. You'll survive waiting a goddamn femtosecond longer.

Yeah this one hits home for me.

Kids will not understand the pain of downloading a 3mb file for 25minutes straight and then realize is a virus/porn/gore/etc instead of what you want.

I remember running Ulduar in Warcraft back in the day with over 2000 ping. It was the only option.

Still know those fights considering I had to know them 2 seconds ahead of time.

Until 6 months ago I had 2Mb/s (with a tailwind) DSL that had a consistent 10% packet loss.

I feel I have earned my 2Gb/s fibre!

Krrrrrtztztzdztzdzdztz

Yeah, speed demon 9600 baud on CompuServe

My first modem was 1200 baud, Compuserve was the only internet provider costing around $7 an hour and was a long distance call that was 50¢ a minute.

1200 baud in 1994. I'm ancient.

Porn pictures loading line by line… I see a nipple! That’s a nipple!

Dsl wasn't offered in my area until 2012 ish. Up till then I was using crappy 3g wireless dongles or my last 56k modem which had built in ethernet ports (still have that modem just in case). I feel this meme.

Almost a man. About 17.

I remember spending a week downloading an awesome film. Only to find out at the end of was scat porn

Broadbrand, brother sword to Frostbrand, freezer of souls.

Waiting forever to download a single .jpg ... and having someone pick up the phone.

Bane speaks the truth!

So many people don't know the pain of loading their porn at the blazing speed of 36kb/sex or less.

Yep, I'm that old... Get off my lawn

https://youtu.be/95-yZ-31j9A

By then the lightning fast speeds were nothing to me but BLINDING

Why are you on aussie.zone when you are clearly from Germany?

My brand!

When your brother's girlfriend calls and it disconnects your downloads. And in general not using the Internet when someone is on the phone lol.

Sadly I was born in it. 14.4 squad represent. What's sad though is that I still live in it. Maybe 1mb down on a good day. Sad face.

Loving the discussion & history here.

I started my online journey on a bleeding edge (and very expensive) 28.8k modem. I still remember the amazing feeling of speed migrating to 33.6k and eventually 56k. We were semi-rural so while the eventual availability of DSL was game changing, our lines were so bad it was less reliable that dial-up. If it rained we had no internet whatsoever.

So glad things have moved on significantly since then.

@ParanoidPizzas, who has never had the joy of downloading a game with a 56k modem and receiving a phone call in the middle of it, has not had a real internet experience

My crappy basement apartment with my two older brothers and 3 separate phone lines just for playing Ultima Online, then Everquesst.

I missed a phone interview with Sony Online Entertainment, because I was too busy playing Asheron's Call to get off the dial-up connection. Having an unlimited access plan through my work really was bad. Especially when my job blocked every website based on my job searches because they wanted me to stay working the support line graveyard shift.