• simple@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Dial-up internet. I would open a website and go do something else for a minute until it loads, then fight with my parents when they pick up the phone when I’ve been downloading something for 3 hours.

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      11 months ago

      We had very late internet infrastructure upgrade, so at the end we had a bluetooth dial-up internet router in the early 2010s…

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      11 months ago

      @simple@lemm.ee Minitel was even worse. But then, Minitel was a French exclusivity.

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