• GeekFTW@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Them days of growing up, downloading mp3’s at 3.35 kb/s transfer speeds on dial up and going “Fuck yeah this is the high life, no getting better than this” lol.

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    2 years ago

    Kids will not understand the pain of downloading a 3mb file for 25minutes straight and then realize is a virus/porn/gore/etc instead of what you want.

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      2 years ago

      Or how about the nearly hour long process to burn a $1 blank CD and have it fail as a penniless teenager

  • SymphonicResonance@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Dsl wasn’t offered in my area until 2012 ish. Up till then I was using crappy 3g wireless dongles or my last 56k modem which had built in ethernet ports (still have that modem just in case). I feel this meme.