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Internet used to be so slow that you had a tv next to the computer so you could keep yourself entertained until the funny picture loaded.
I remember downloading an mp3 took about as much time as listening to it.
KazAa...
Youngin. I remember downloading a song took an hour. Want to download an album? Better clear out your weekend and hope no one else needed the phone
Leaving the computer on and keeping the phone line busy overnight to have some fresh music in the morning.
I think my first modem was a 14400. It was so slow, but somehow I was so patient. If I was getting 3KB a second, I was happy.
Downloadlng kinky pictures, you'd better have a kink for hairstyles or eyebrows, because it'll be a while before anything else displays.
Bitmaps loaded from the bottom up! Tomorrow.
You could literally hear the bytes passing through your modem if you wanted.