Comment on "And now for some golden oldies!"

• WhipperSnapper@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wait, so you do or do not remember the excitement of going from 14.4 to 33.6 for dialup?

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  • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not a clue, although my dad started a phone booth company in 1998 …

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    • WhipperSnapper@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s a wild time to invest in phone booths!

      Real answer is dialup modem speeds. Doubled our download (in my case, from 10 minutes per mb to 5 minutes!)

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      • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh yes it was, serious financial troubles followed

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    • blibla@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      i jave never used a phone booth and i listebed to hybrid theory in school

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  • dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I remember a Commodore 64 with a 300 baud modem. 1200 was luxury.

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