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by t-3 62 days ago
Some sites were fast. Some sites had pictures and it took long enough to load that I would sometimes make a sandwich while waiting.
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I literally remember watching images load line by line.

I know nostalgia for the old days is de rigueur especially on HN but I definitely do not want to go back to that.

I told a coworker born in 2001 about this and he could not believe his ears
We dither on the shoulders of giants.
Not with cable (3 megabits down, 128kbits up!) Almost everything was fast.