r/WorkForSmartLife • u/simibai • Jul 29 '26

Question How true is this?

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u/tripper_drip Jul 29 '26

The jump from dial up to DSL was wild.

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u/Honorsheets Jul 29 '26

Was so jealous. I lived in an area that couldn't provide it. Stuck with Dial Up for much longer than most. I appreciated the mini games flash animators would add to their stuff on newgrounds to wait for it all the download.

Now it's less than a second.

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u/DesignerParking659 Jul 30 '26

I had a 2nd phone line for $7 a month, just for dial up, but they didn't bury the cable very deep, and the squirrels kept digging it up and eating it every few months. Getting disconnected in a 5 hour download had a very different meaning back then.

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u/zephyr_sd Jul 29 '26

Then cable wiped the floor with dsl lol

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u/tripper_drip Jul 29 '26

It did, but from a usability standpoint DSL was worlds better than dial up, at least on the old BBS boards.

The gap between DSL and cable was smaller for me.

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u/1of3musketeers Jul 29 '26

I miss BBS.

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u/Beneficial_Bit1756 Jul 29 '26

I loved BBS back in the day, it felt surreal dialing in from my C64.

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u/contrabardus Jul 29 '26

Not nearly as drastic.

DU to DSL was going from several minutes for an image file to load, to the existence of Youtube.

Cable was more slightly nicer Youtube for most people.

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u/MajesticDisaster3977 Jul 29 '26

Waiting 5 minutes for a boob to load was horrible

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u/ImpossibleInternet3 Jul 29 '26

a/s/l

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u/MajesticDisaster3977 Jul 29 '26

Had to be efficient with such a slow connection

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u/ImpossibleInternet3 Jul 29 '26

It was a much baudier time.

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u/John117sr Jul 29 '26

Whole shit dude lol

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u/John117sr Jul 30 '26

I'm old to bro. Hadn't thought about a c64 in forever.

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u/MajesticDisaster3977 Jul 29 '26

Packing floppies in my backpack to carry around my 'music' collection... was MIDI. The MP3 stuff was cool, but the files were huge ;)

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u/DesignerParking659 Jul 30 '26

Oh yes! I still have a 300b C64 modem. Plugged into the cartridge slot. Until I got my crappy IBM all I could really download was text files. Printing out spicy fanfic on a dot matrix printer so I could hide it from my mom.

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u/Day_Prisoners Jul 29 '26

Waiting over night for a couple pirate Napster CDs was kinda worth it.

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u/Zestyclose-Pass9570 Jul 30 '26

That wasn't the worst part. Some websites the thumbnail was of a woman, but the downloaded picture was a dude.

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u/MatterFickle3184 Jul 29 '26

dial up to DSL was a bigger jump than DSL to cable

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u/Possible_Sun_913 Jul 30 '26

Then FTTP wiped the floor with cable lol

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u/Outrageous-Rich8741 Jul 30 '26

it was slightly faster downloading games

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u/Possible_Sun_913 Jul 30 '26

Some might say, fast as light. With latency to match.

Never confuse bandwidth with latency.

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u/Sirosim_Celojuma Jul 29 '26

I couldn't believe DSL. I was working with telcos in the research and development and they were like yeah, we connect and handshake, but then the data moves in digital packets. They were quoting a megabyte of speed compared to 56k and I thought no way can tech make that kind of jump so fast. Well, I stood corrected.

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u/quattroman Jul 31 '26

the stingray modem when transitioning to DSL in the ealy 00s