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Re:A Love Letter to the Internet of Old by morsch on Friday October 30, 2020 @01:35PM (#24944758)
That's a 3 MB web page. That would have taken about a minute to download with a fast modem. I used a download manager for stuff that large. Remember GetRight? 5/5 at Tucows!
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Re:A Love Letter to the Internet of Old by scrooched_moose on Friday October 30, 2020 @02:19PM (#24945286)
Where were you getting anything close to that, outside of a T1 line?

No matter what I did or where we lived, 56k dial up in practice was a consistent 3.2 kBps download. 128 kbps MP3s were always about 3.5 MB, which took about 20 minutes to download per track.

I feel like those numbers will be burned in my brain for the rest of my life.

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Re:A Love Letter to the Internet of Old by morsch on Friday October 30, 2020 @05:25PM (#24947047)
You're right of course, used kilobytes instead of kilobits. Thanks.
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