There was a time when you either had phone service or internet. But not both at the same time.

Unfortunately I DO know this image…

Trumpet Winsock.

I loved the original NetZero. You could use the ISP phone number and set up a manual connection with Windows dialer… viola! Free dial-up with no ads or shitty dialer software!

I remember images loading one line at a time and I get irritated at less than 40Mbps.

Limitations of available technology at the time =/= limitations generally caused by shitty ISPs and/or IT teams not maintaining their infrastructure and equipment properly.

ATDT5551234

Christ, that sound lives rent free in my head

So you can’t complain about Wifi speeds unless you’re prehistoric?

You know what’s worse that no internet? Slow internet.

Dialing attempt 4 of 5

“Guess I’ll check my email tomorrow…”

Twenty minutes to download a 1MB image.

Yes, really. 9600 baud modem.

ASCII art was popular then, and before: https://www.asciiart.eu/

Never had that because it was too expensive to be worth the trouble.