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when did you stop using dial up internet? (lemmy.world)
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for me it was back in 2012 i think

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[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

I went to college in 1997 and went from 28.8kbps dialup to a 2.4gbit OC-48. I had no idea how slow the rest of the internet was until I had a better connection than most servers (at the time).

Edit: I was connected to the dorm ethernet via 10mbit NICs. So even with 5 PCs running in my dorm room, we were only using a fraction of the available bandwidth.

[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Your dorm must have had epic lan parties.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

I worked for the department that ran student computer labs (before most people started bringing computers to college with them). That's where the real epic lan parties happened. Every time we'd update the desktops we'd celebrate with an all-nighter lan party for staff and friends.

[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

I went to a small charter high school around 2002-3 and their whole education curriculum was on computers. The school principal would do monthly lan parties, then wipe the floor with us teenagers on age of empires 2. I still fear elephant charges.

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My exact timeline.

Hello fellow 45 year old.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Hey! How are your knees?

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Kinda painful when it rains, cause of the titanium pins

[–] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What was the time in-between those two?

Would be insane going from 28.8k to 2.4gbps

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The 90 minutes drive from where I grew up to my dorm room.

[–] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So you moved and got a 83333x improvement just by moving?

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago

Other than paying for tuition and dorm housing, yes.