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Originally Posted by sgmoore
That is like saying I don't get why Pepsi exists when Coke already exists or why Costa exists when Starbucks already exists.
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Yes, that's true and
https://xkcd.com/927/
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Originally Posted by sgmoore
As a comparison, my internet is over a hundred thousand times faster than my first dial-up modem).
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1200 / 75 for Prestel like services in 1981-1982
300 only for real email, even in 1987 (via X25 PAD, a server and Bitnet)
I was on 8 Mbps down / 1 Mbps up (7.4 & 0.95 at peak time before fibre, 2005 to 2023).
Also errors meant dialup was slower. Even on 56K modem the line only did 19K (1998 to 2005, before that we had 128K ISDN for a few years).
So now 1.7 million times faster download and 170 thousand times faster upload than 1987.