So I was having a discussion the other day with someone who was some years younger and whose experience with the internet has largely been broadband. The discussion actually started with, "in my day, the web was too slow for porn." So then I had to explain how it could be too slow.
My first computer didn't even come with a modem. When I did get one, it was 2,400 bps. That meant nothing to my non-technical interlocutor. So I explained that my current broadband connection is 3 million bps. I think that got the point across. But then I realized how obsolete those memories are and how it would make a good blog entry to memorialize it. So how much has changed? Well, my connection is currently about 1,250 times faster than it was back in the day. So if my math is correct, a 1MB file back then would have taken 58min 15 sec to transmit under optimal conditions. Today, it would take about 3 seconds.
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