When You Got Your First High Speed Internet.

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For those in the 90s and early 2000s when the net was slow and took what seemed forever to watch a short YouTube vid or all night to download a movie.

What was it like to finally have faster net? For me when I got DSL it was shocking at first how fast vids played and how movies downloaded within in a few minutes.

I do miss the early days of the net.
 
IDK, can't remember. I was in my early 20's when DSL started coming in so I wasn't really attached to the internet the way people are today. I was in my 30's before I even used the internet on a daily basis.
 
The dial up sucked. Some days you couldn't even get on after trying five or six numbers. It was not only broadband that sped things up but also the constant improvements in computer chips and hardware.
 
When my sister moved to Singapore, i visited her was the first time i was amazed with the internet, coming from something like 3mbps net this was in 2011 i believe to i think was 100mbps it was crazy i literally watched my torrent download infront of my eyes in seconds
 
I didn't have high speed internet until I went to university. Let's just say my music collection grew exponentially, I was downloading full albums and burning them to CDs in the computer lab while doing my course work. Came home from university with several full spindles of CD-Rs packed with music and other stuff.
 
It was amazing to play everquest with high speed internet and made raiding semi functional
 
aerius said:
I didn't have high speed internet until I went to university. Let's just say my music collection grew exponentially, I was downloading full albums and burning them to CDs in the computer lab while doing my course work. Came home from university with several full spindles of CD-Rs packed with music and other stuff.
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I member the first time I burn a CD was at a Best Buy they had a Napster Kiosk.

I can't remember how much that cost.
 
I always seems to live in the slowest internet areas for years. It probably wasn't until 2015 i was able to get more speed then i need.
Alot of you probably didn't know one way cable internet was a thing, but i remember having to pay $25 for a landline phone service just to dial in to beable to download with cable internet. This was back in 2008. If i remember correctly we ended up having to get two phone lines $50 , and the cable internet service $60. And that wasn't even including cable tv. Pretty sure the download speed was less then 250Kbps. All i know was back then most movies were like 700mb and it took longer to download then the length of the movie.
 
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I had slow country Internet back then

I could join a halo 2 server for about 3 minutes before getting signal connect ejected
 
Had Dial up until I think 1999 and then switched to DSL (which split the phone line into 2 separate bands).

2002 my neighborhood started offering cable internet which used the cable lines instead of telephone lines, so we got it in 2003.

Cable was the first true high speed. Main reason why people wanted cable was Internet was getting more mainstream with shopping, streaming, conference calls, online chats so the extra bandwidth was needed vs DSL.
 
about 2002....
 
Sonny Qc said:
Just remember I jerked off a lot that weekend.
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In my house we didn't get the internet till I was about 15 years old and we went straight to cable. That was HUGE! A lot of my friends had dialup and that was just garbage! Trying to download a topless photo of Sable in '98 took some damn time! And Allah forbid someone has the audacity to pick up the house phone and try to make a call! Your internet connection crashes and the person making said call gets the world's worst sound blaring in their ear! It seriously sounded like a car alarm mixed with that sound tv channels make when they go off the air and play those coloured bars.

Man, this takes me back...
 
I went from ISDN that worked 60% of the time to Fiber in 2016.
 
erhnamdjinn said:
When my sister moved to Singapore, i visited her was the first time i was amazed with the internet, coming from something like 3mbps net this was in 2011 i believe to i think was 100mbps it was crazy i literally watched my torrent download infront of my eyes in seconds
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Imagine getting ultra-fast internet in a country where it's illegal to download pron and the first thing your filthy brother does is use it to download torrent pron

Although tbf I'd have done it as well
 
My dad was working for this company that required him to be on call from home so they gave him Internet. First it was ISDN and then in 1999 they upgraded to cable broadband. It was like 5 down/ 1 up business internet
 
MLarson said:
For those in the 90s and early 2000s when the net was slow and took what seemed forever to watch a short YouTube vid or all night to download a movie.

What was it like to finally have faster net? For me when I got DSL it was shocking at first how fast vids played and how movies downloaded within in a few minutes.

I do miss the early days of the net.
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It was college. I think Napster just came out too. So it was a lot of music downloading.
 
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