I got my first cable modem in 1998! All sites were still built for dialup, so everything was incredibly fast.

vunderba 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Nice! We were one of the first families on the block to have a 33.6 kbps modem, and were the envy of every filthy peasant who still had a 28.8 back in the day.

	▲	icedchai 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		My first dialup modem was 1200 baud, back in 1987! I remember it taking an hour to download a game from a local warez BBS. My first modem to establish an Internet connection (SLIP) was 9600, sometime around 1993! Time flies...

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jghn 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This comment reminded me of the early days of Ultima Online. I was on a high speed campus connection with a ping time of ~5ms to my server. Given most players were on a 28.8/56k modem with ping times ~300ms, it was an amazing speed difference. I could walk, not run, faster than other people riding horses at full speed.

Needless to say, I got accused of cheating quite a bit.

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t-3 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Some sites were fast. Some sites had pictures and it took long enough to load that I would sometimes make a sandwich while waiting.

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icedchai 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Not with cable (3 megabits down, 128kbits up!) Almost everything was fast.

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krapp 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I literally remember watching images load line by line.

I know nostalgia for the old days is de rigueur especially on HN but I definitely do not want to go back to that.

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walthamstow 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I told a coworker born in 2001 about this and he could not believe his ears

	▲	krapp 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		We dither on the shoulders of giants.

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acheron 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Same! I got called “LPB” in Quake 2 a lot.