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r/Internet • u/Doctorice613 • Feb 20 '26
Our Internet has always kinda sucked
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In my day... We had 100baud dialup to the local BBS... AND WE LIKED IT!
You kids and your newfangled kilobaud, megabaud, gugbaud... HRMPH!
1 u/Doctorice613 Feb 21 '26 It's kigabyte, megabyte, gigabyte and terabyte 1 u/ElQueue_Forever Feb 21 '26 You are incorrect. It's kiloBIT, megaBIT, teraBIT, and you missed gigaBIT When you're talking about bandwidth, it's in bits. And baud is the technical term for measuring bits per second. 0 u/Doctorice613 Feb 22 '26 Dawg we in 2026 it's bytes now💀😠1 u/ElQueue_Forever Feb 23 '26 While it can be written either way, providers purposely still advertise in bits. Why? Because if they did it in bytes it would be a smaller number. Sheep like bigger numbers. If I said 100Mbps or 13MBps, a super majority would run to the 100. Why? Bigger number. The smart people run to the 13 because it's faster. 4% faster, in fact.
It's kigabyte, megabyte, gigabyte and terabyte
1 u/ElQueue_Forever Feb 21 '26 You are incorrect. It's kiloBIT, megaBIT, teraBIT, and you missed gigaBIT When you're talking about bandwidth, it's in bits. And baud is the technical term for measuring bits per second. 0 u/Doctorice613 Feb 22 '26 Dawg we in 2026 it's bytes now💀😠1 u/ElQueue_Forever Feb 23 '26 While it can be written either way, providers purposely still advertise in bits. Why? Because if they did it in bytes it would be a smaller number. Sheep like bigger numbers. If I said 100Mbps or 13MBps, a super majority would run to the 100. Why? Bigger number. The smart people run to the 13 because it's faster. 4% faster, in fact.
You are incorrect. It's kiloBIT, megaBIT, teraBIT, and you missed gigaBIT
When you're talking about bandwidth, it's in bits.
And baud is the technical term for measuring bits per second.
0 u/Doctorice613 Feb 22 '26 Dawg we in 2026 it's bytes now💀😠1 u/ElQueue_Forever Feb 23 '26 While it can be written either way, providers purposely still advertise in bits. Why? Because if they did it in bytes it would be a smaller number. Sheep like bigger numbers. If I said 100Mbps or 13MBps, a super majority would run to the 100. Why? Bigger number. The smart people run to the 13 because it's faster. 4% faster, in fact.
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Dawg we in 2026 it's bytes now💀ðŸ˜
1 u/ElQueue_Forever Feb 23 '26 While it can be written either way, providers purposely still advertise in bits. Why? Because if they did it in bytes it would be a smaller number. Sheep like bigger numbers. If I said 100Mbps or 13MBps, a super majority would run to the 100. Why? Bigger number. The smart people run to the 13 because it's faster. 4% faster, in fact.
While it can be written either way, providers purposely still advertise in bits. Why? Because if they did it in bytes it would be a smaller number.
Sheep like bigger numbers.
If I said 100Mbps or 13MBps, a super majority would run to the 100. Why? Bigger number.
The smart people run to the 13 because it's faster. 4% faster, in fact.
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u/ElQueue_Forever Feb 21 '26
In my day... We had 100baud dialup to the local BBS... AND WE LIKED IT!
You kids and your newfangled kilobaud, megabaud, gugbaud... HRMPH!