Goddamn imagine internet without ryssäbots

>>217768627
For me personally 100%
I remember when our maximum download speed was 1.2 kb/s, then we got another much faster ISP, downloads 1.4 kb/s, and it felt very satisfying.

>>217768681
I don't have to imagine.

>>217768627
Whatever the fools say, Max fucking Weber was damn right.

>>217768627
I don't know but we had free dialup from the community college my dad was taking some classes at

>Be me:
>It's 1993:
>Install mosaic and trumpet winsock from uk mag cover cd
>Open mosaic to check it out
>Monthly phone bill comes; what's this 15 min call to the uk, anon?
>Turns out trumpet windock had an issue where it didn't automatically terminate phone connection when you closed your session. Luckily had shut down computer 15 minutes later
>Guess I got early access and didn't even knew (page was just left justified times roman text on grey background, with image banners for paragraph titles)
>1995:
>Inquire phone company about internet
>Not yet ready for widespread availability, wait till next year; proceeds to describe current price plan:
>Account opening fee
>Monthly fee
>Data fee
>Connection speed fee
>9.6k speed available, but only 2.4k guaranteed, though
>City uni was actually heading Euro GIS group
>1996:
>Finally get actual account
>Start getting mail from Wired
>Welcome gift or spam?!?
>Mail account name is just my first name
>Start getting mail for someone with same first, different last name
>2 guys, 1 mail account
Soon after phone monopoly ends, new phone companies sprout up everywhere and everyone wants a piece of the pie, so free internet becoms THE thing. Still have a bunch of "internet CD" from back then.

reasonably sure that every brazilian alive back then got an AOL start cd
computers used be expensive though, so the bar was high. Maybe now with all the sam altman fuckery, computers will be a thing for the elite again

>dfn du vil aldri oppleva nordisk internett att

>>217768627
>be me
>parents get a dial-up modem in about 2000
>older cousin comes over
>shows us "interesting sites he heard about" (porn)
>get shitloads of viruses of all sorts that connect to paid porn sites
>end of month, phone bill comes
>equivalent of like 2 monthly salaries
>no more internet for us
good times

>>217768627
gods we were strong back then
every forum was loaded with us

>>217768627
>estonia at 14.5%
how did they achieve this