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

icedchai 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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

krapp 5 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.

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

	▲	krapp 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		We dither on the shoulders of giants.