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Originally Posted by drjd
I first saw the internet in 1995 when a friend brought a dial-up modem and connected my 386 with the telephone line. After umpteenth attempts we connected to web through Netscape Navigator. It was a horrible experience of wasting the time then, and my first reaction about internet was an utter dissatisfaction.  |
I started out back when going online meant connecting to a service like AOL, Compuserve, or Prodigy, or connecting to a local BBS system running on a PC, and all access was dial up modem. At one point, I got a new modem that supported part of the MNP protocol, and got 240 CPS effective speed over a 2,400 baud modem. Whoa. Speed!
I also recall admonishments back when the Internet was starting to spread that the average connecting device for a user was likely to be a 14.4 kbaud modem, and if you were a web designer, you really wanted to minimize what the user would have to DL before your page began to appear.
Now the implicit assumption is that everyone has fast broadband and you don't care. Alas, that's not entirely true. I know a few folks who still connect via dial up because broadband isn't a viable option where they are.
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Dennis