The internet was unironically better when it was slower.
>>106811215Sure but it wasn't better because it was slower. Its slowness kept normalfags far from it.
But the internet is slower now.
>>106811215You wouldn't say this if you grew up with it.
>>106811215I couldn't stand 5 seconds watching that, disgusting blurry video.
>>106811254Dis
>>106811215>having to wait hours for a 240p movie torrent to download
>>106811295>a gorillion years ago>dude made that little animation>randomly mashed his keyboard and ended up with 23PB worth of data to download>probably thought it was too much but kept it because lolz>2025>a single large company has more than that across all of its servers
>>106811521This fine anon created that image to mock you >>106811362 (fag)
>>106811254>eternal septemberfpbp
>>106811215sovl
>>106811521Lol
>>106811215Why didn't you uncheck "log onto network", faggot. It does literally for a PPP internet connection and is only used if you're logging into a Windows network remotely.Source: I did telephone tech support for dialup ISPs, and I told every single customer who called to do this and it sped up their connection time. Otherwise it literally has to wait until it times out!
>>106812845*literally nothing.I bumped my head earlier.
>>106812845I’m using 86box’s modem emulation and this is the only way it works.
I disagree. The peak was when most people were on broadband internet but social media hadn't taken over yet, early to late 2000s. Dial up era was shit in comparison.
>>106812890>86boxWhat's the server like on the other end? If it is just using radius authentication it shouldn't be needed.
>>106811450try many, many days
>>106811215Computers were better when everything was slower. Instant gratification is not good for you.
>>106811521absolutely decimated
>>106813036this is trueit took my dad a week to download Jazz Jackrabbit 2 for me. then I played nothing but that for a year or two. now I have so many games, yet its so hard to actually get into something.
>>106811215Downloading porn pictures on 56K was wild. Like playing a scratch off lotto ticket every minute or two since most pictures didn't even have thumbnails. Just a text link.
>>106811521This but unironically
>>106813110yep. and I remember when Napster came out it took 3-4 hours to download a 3 minute song on dial up. zoomers have no idea what the fuck they are talking about, slow internet sucked ass
>>106811215Back in the 90s, If your browser crashed, it usually crashed the entire system. Windows XP was a godsend.
>>106812845>only used if you're logging into a Windows network remotely.huh, I've used dialup from '94 to the end of '03 and I never knew this
>>106812937It uses SLIP.>https://86box.readthedocs.io/en/latest/hardware/network.html#modem
>>106811215What you mean to say is: The internet was better when it was populated by middle class civilized nations. Which is factually correct. The only time i ever see anyone browsing porn in public on a phone its always an arab or a jeet. Without fail. Every single time.
>>106813026I think my first movie took weeks to download
>>106811215>Internet felt snappier when I had 10mbps and dual AMD K8 cores and not 400mbps with 12 threads like nowThis shit makes no fucking sense
>>106814099he probably uses Firefox (a formerly popular, very slow browser that used to be the best browser, isn't the best browser anymore but some people think it is because they're out of touch)
>>106811254I always think about this, what the world will be like, if internet access becomes slower and more expensive and the absence of smartphones, that in itself will make normies not interested in using the internet
it was shit.
>>106811215For me, it was a time of pure, innocent discovery, I was around 10 years old at the time. Despite being poor, I had access to computers early on. Installing Win 95 and basic software on a new computer was a big event. Seeing a computer being repaired brought me pure joy. I would lose myself for hours on end trying to fix things. Connecting to Dialup was like waiting to be transported to a new dimension. 56kbps, dat modem sound... HTML & CSS were a big deal for me. I got into graphic/web design at 13. By 20, I was doing web dev on a LAMP stack, at that point, I had access to 256 kbps DSL. My parents were skeptical... they thought it would lead nowhere, they just wanted me to get a job that "paid the bills" (their bills). By 24 I left my shithole country. I don't know what my life would be like without the internet. I will always cherish the moments captured in OP's video.
>bandwidth is cheap and home computers are more powerful then ever>noooo I must pay $30 a month for a cloud VPS to host my blog instead of self hosting
>>106814456I don't know where you live, but ISPs in my area made it impossible to host anything.
>>106814506I live in a first world country where I can pay $5 more for a static IP and unlimited access to my personal router settings.
>>106811284I did. Soul dies on the altar of convenience. Technology and Internet as a whole would not have advanced as much as it did today if Internet speed was capped at 256kbps, but I think that's a good thing. Just like having a walkable rustic town is better than an efficient car centric city with 20 floors apartment blocks and mile long malls.Of course as a kid I craved both the hustle bustle of the big city and faster internet, but now I know better.
>>106811215That's because internet is an inherently a bad idea and corrosive to the fabric of society. So yes, it was better when it was worse and more limited.You should have to pass an IQ test with a minimum of a 120 score to get an internet license.
>>106811215FUCK no. You were not there, you will never know.
>>106815190I have to agree with this... a sort of "internet license" (NOT some ID bullshit) delivered by wizards.
>>106814730Why would you ever want a static IP for home use? You sound mentally unwell.
>>106815277Server use.Personally the way I serve stuff now is port forwarding on a vpn this way my is doesn't really know what I'm hosting and my static ip is not exposed
>>106815277it guarantees you won't randomly be affected by some random faggot's ban
>>106815277If I was mentally unwell, I'd be afraid of having static IP at home.>>106815511I'm not affected by some random faggot's ban either.
>>106811281This
you wouldn't have been able to watch 4k tranny porn
>>106811215So the street shitting devs at MS making everything run like ass are just really adding SOVL?
>>106812845>I did telephone tech support for dialup ISPsFeels weird seeing someone who has to be over the age of 50 unironically using a Satania pic.
>>106816132I bet it does, covid anime larpfag, but some of us always enjoyed anime and don't have a false idea of what it is and isn't, fuck off normalcattle.
you're confusing your life being better because you were a kid who leeched off his parents with the world itself being betteryou just turned out a jaded failure and you are projecting that onto technology, the only hobby you have and what you use as a substitute for having an actual personality
