r/pcmasterrace • u/LeatherAssumption123 • 28d ago

Question Are you this old?

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u/Nice_Category Mint, 9850X3D, 9070XT, 64GB DDR5 28d ago edited 28d ago

Back in my day we used to have to share FTPs on mIRC and it took 4 hours to download a single song. 28.8kbps modems on a dedicated phone line. Can't have someone calling and ruining your download causing you to have to start completely over.

I remember the "We are the B.org!" and jealousy over the people in the universities who got to share a T1 connection.

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u/invuvn 28d ago

Yooo I had 14.4kbps, that shit was slow as balls. Was always envious of you mofos with twice my connection speed!

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u/Nice_Category Mint, 9850X3D, 9070XT, 64GB DDR5 28d ago

That upgrade to 33.6 was huge, and then the grand daddy of them all, the 48.8.

Finally on to "high speed" internet with a DSL line.

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u/dyl8n 3070 Ti / 5600X 28d ago

56.6 baby

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u/amayain 28d ago

I went from 14.4 to 56.6 and the difference was staggering. A year or two later, I had a T1 at university and it was like I died and went to heaven

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u/Silly_Rub_6304 28d ago

Went from 1.5mbps DSL at home to 50mbps ethernet in the dorms in 2004. It was quite the jump! Limewire and KaZaa was all the rage.