How our patience level has changed

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• crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I remember images loading one line at a time and I get irritated at less than 40Mbps.

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  • lookitsjustin@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Image

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    • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Set phasers to BONK!

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• Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Limitations of available technology at the time =/= limitations generally caused by shitty ISPs and/or IT teams not maintaining their infrastructure and equipment properly.

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• rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We were also loading 30kb webpages. Try to load anything from the last 10 years over 33,600

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  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, but thats in large part due to the fact that people stopped trying to optimize, because why optimize when most people have gigantic firehose connections that can just use their raw bandwidth to overcome issues.

    A similar problem exists with other aspects of computing, lack of optimization and just brute forcing it with modern GPU/CPU power

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  • bertlewirth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    there’s a few videos on youtube about people loading up dialup and trying to use today’s internet on it. It is not fun.

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• TheGoldenV@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You know what’s worse that no internet? Slow internet.

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• user1234@fedinsfw.app ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I can still hear that image.

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Dialing attempt 4 of 5

  “Guess I’ll check my email tomorrow…”

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• BoosBeau@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Christ, that sound lives rent free in my head

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• tias@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My kids actually complained that the internet is slow when he was getting 24 MB/s on a Steam download.

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• TrackenDaKracken@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Twenty minutes to download 1MB.

  Yes, really. 9600 baud modem.

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• daannii@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There was a time when you either had phone service or internet. But not both at the same time.

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  • dellish@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And if some bastard tried calling you when you were on the internet, they weren’t your friend any more.

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    • NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There was a code you could use when dialing your provider to disable the 2nd call tone for a call. Put that in your phone number for dialing and your friends would get a busy signal, as god intended.

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  • bertlewirth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I BEGGED my mother for a second line, so I could stay online longer, but she wouldn’t get one :(

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• PattyMcB@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I loved the original NetZero. You could use the ISP phone number and set up a manual connection with Windows dialer… viola! Free dial-up with no ads or shitty dialer software!

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• kestrel7_7@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes, we really did have to download things uphill both ways back then. I remember leaving the computer on overnight to download a game that was, like, 40 mb.

  In the morning I got there and it had crashed at like 98% lol

  My dad was pissed at me for “wasting electricity” the real OG data center hater over here.

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• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I believe broadband is, generally, a net negative for the human species.

  Its always on, leading to a constant conveyor belt of fresh horrors.

  Its always on, so theres no seperation from internet and anything else, because you can’t just log out of the internet anymore.

  High speed/Always on internet means goods we used to own physically and use as we please, have been converted into goods we just perpetually rent and can be taken from us at any time.

  always on broadband was genuinely the turning point in ruining the internet.

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  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s what brought internet to the masses. That’s what always kills <any subject>.

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• IamMoonPie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I remember this and I complain about wifi. Americans are getting scammed on internet speed.

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• ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Dialup noises still give me tingles. Like I’m about to experience something fun, new, and crazy soon.

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• Chick0nPlayz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So you can’t complain about Wifi speeds unless you’re prehistoric?

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  • PartyAt15thAndSummit@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes. Nobody is ever allowed to complain about anything because things were so much worse in the before-times.

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• Dvixen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And then it would finally connect, and your sibling would pick up the phone and start dialling…

  Aaaaaaargh!

  I remember way, way back in the days of dialup a very tech savvy friend had emailed me 20+ files, because I was the only one capable of stitching an image together. Took forever (days?) to download the files, and I had to redownload more than once due to roommates doing fun stuff like picking up the other phone line… (It was of his truck after hitting a moose.) Of course, I didn’t get to see the image until he got home, I had a Hercules monitor, he had a fancy one that did actual graphics.

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• Eternal192@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sorry but the image has no effect on me due to a lack of grating/screaming machine noises.

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• Kyrgizion@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m from the before-times, where loading a single EGA screen in 4 colours took a good twenty seconds from a floppy drive. Printer was dot matrix. Internet was something mythical only possessed by the extremely elite or academia.

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• PieMePlenty@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Back when your computer picked up the phone and called some machine far away.

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  • Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Those AOL CDs you got in the mail.

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    • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I remember growing up with AOL and being stuck on the kiddie mode.

      I also remember the day I figured out that I was t actually stuck on kiddie mode and I could use Netscape and browse the Internet directly. Sooo many tiddies seen at one line of pixels at a time…

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• Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Gatekeeping is a downvote

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• ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I recognise that isn’t MS Sans Serif, that text is also anti-aliased and has kerning.

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• Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Unfortunately I DO know this image…

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• red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  ATDT5551234

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• StabbingSky@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I had to deal with this shit until 2007. Then we got a shitty WISP the was marginally better.

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• teslekova@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Trumpet Winsock.

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• scytale@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I remember waiting half a day for a youtube video to load, then leaving the computer on until the evening so I could show it to my brother when he got home.

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• gigaqps@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Mrrrrrrr meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep. Murrrrrrrrrr weeeerrrrr MWOM MWOM mreeeeee meomrmrmrmrmmmmrrrr

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• A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t complain, my country’s internet is like one of the fastest in the world.

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  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wifi is not internet.

    If your internet is slow, yeah, that’s a service/country problem.

    Wifi is slow for a bajillion reasons completely unrelated to the service. The biggest one being modems/routers out-of-the-box defaulting to the same channel – particularly a problem when everyone in the same building has the same damn ISP-issued modem.

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• lath@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Never had that because it was too expensive to be worth the trouble.

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