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by sarah180 2052 days ago
It's not entirely gone: https://www.lingscars.com/
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That's a 3 MB web page. That would have taken about a minute to download with a fast modem. I used a download manager for stuff that large. Remember GetRight? 5/5 at Tucows!
Where were you getting anything close to that, outside of a T1 line?

No matter what I did or where we lived, 56k dial up in practice was a consistent 3.2 kBps download. 128 kbps MP3s were always about 3.5 MB, which took about 20 minutes to download per track.

I feel like those numbers will be burned in my brain for the rest of my life.

You're right of course, used kilobytes instead of kilobits. Thanks.
That was a fun rabbit hole. I guess she retired today and gave the business to her staff! Congrats Ling!
This is some kind of Adult Swim ARG, right?
That's an epic design.