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0 pointsfirecall3y ago0 comments

Since ADSL1 the web has felt much the same.

Of course there was flash to deal with rhen too.

Now back when we had 56K Modems was when it really was unusable!

I don't how sites think i want to read an article and warxh a totally unrelated video at the same time.

I'm really starting to miss old style magazines lately.

Click bait and fake headlines about the next iphone have ruinwd the web.

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connicpu3y ago

The jump up to 5mbps down was the last time I felt like upgrading my internet made the web a noticeably better experience, it was incredible to be able to watch videos at an okay quality without pausing for buffering. Everything else has been only incremental improvements that have been eaten up by increasing inefficiency, and my only gains have been higher resolution video streams and faster video game downloads (also offset by massively larger video games...)

quitit3y ago

It becomes most noticeable for me when my phone can only get 3G or lower. Once upon a time this was enough to pull up a variety of web pages without too much wait, but now it might as well be no connection at all.

adolph3y ago

We didn't know what a good thing we had with 36.6 and Lynx or Gopher

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