Lucky bastard. I was happy enough getting DSL when my friends still had dialup, since we could now use the phone and internet at the same time. (though sometimes noise on our line would cause problems)
My first experience with fast internet was in the freshman dorm at college in the early 00s. I needed to download OpenOffice (90MB) and was dreading it, then to my surprise it downloaded in like 30 seconds.
I had ISDN in 1997. IIRC was 128kbps
Lucky bastard. I was happy enough getting DSL when my friends still had dialup, since we could now use the phone and internet at the same time. (though sometimes noise on our line would cause problems)
Yeah I still had to put a line noise canceller on each phone plug as well
My first experience with fast internet was in the freshman dorm at college in the early 00s. I needed to download OpenOffice (90MB) and was dreading it, then to my surprise it downloaded in like 30 seconds.
I remember when it took about 2 minutes to download an mp3