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Originally Posted by Lasereth
14.4KBPs. We had in 1995 I believe. Then in maybe 1998 we upgraded to 56k, and then in 2000 we had broadband already. One of my high school friends had a 5 MBps cable broadband connection at his house in 1996. You have NO FUCKING IDEA how jealous all of the computer nerds were at school. He was downloading at like 400 KBps or more and we were downloading at....3 KBps.
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Yeah, I remember when most nerds were booting around with a 56k modem, while the "losers" were still stuck in 28.8 land or worse. However, the occasional alpha-nerd could brag about the dedicated T1 line he had at home. You know, the "Porsche" of Internet connections. It made us all drool.
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