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Originally Posted by julianh72
Those of us who have been "on the 'net" since the late 20th Century would remember 14.4 and 28.8 kbps (kilobits per second) modems shared with a phone line, and we got by.
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I can go one better. In the 80's, I had a switchable modem, which varied between the dizzying speeds of 1200/75 baud, all the way up to the peaks of 300 baud. Baud is a measure of bits per second. To compare, we are now talking about megabits per second, so we are getting towards a million times faster (in terms of baud rates) than 30 years ago.
And you used to have to pay for each page that loaded. 1 cent here, 5 cents there. Those were the days.