I’ve tried to explain my kid how we went online back in the days. Need to show this to her.

About 15 years ago I gave some networking courses at a local education center, it was all young kids (18-20 years old). When I told them that the speed we got back in the day was 4 kilobytes per second (56k on a good day), they didn't believe me at all.

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layer8 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I remember using a “high-speed” 14.4 kbps modem. I mean, these were thousands of bits per second, really insane. Faster than many LLMs.

	▲	acheron an hour ago \| parent [-]
		At 2400, you could watch the characters from the BBS come up on your screen, but at 14.4 practically the whole page came up at once!