Them days of growing up, downloading mp3's at 3.35 kb/s transfer speeds on dial up and going "Fuck yeah this is the high life, no getting better than this" lol.
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I remember downloading a song on P2P downloaders taking hours or sometimes even a whole day. Now I can download a Blu Ray rip of a 1080p movie in less than 10 minutes.
This is me with my parents. When a webpage takes a moment to load, they'll look at me and be like, why isn't this loading?
And then I'll be like, bruh, back in the day, I had to stop using the internet, because you wanted to make a phone call. You'll survive waiting a goddamn femtosecond longer.
Almost a man. About 17.
I remember running Ulduar in Warcraft back in the day with over 2000 ping. It was the only option.
Still know those fights considering I had to know them 2 seconds ahead of time.
Sadly I was born in it. 14.4 squad represent. What's sad though is that I still live in it. Maybe 1mb down on a good day. Sad face.
I remember the times when I was raging against slow loading because we were paying for the internet by the minute.
Now, this does not keep me from still raging against internet or websites taking a second too long. I got spoiled by progress.
Kids will not understand the pain of downloading a 3mb file for 25minutes straight and then realize is a virus/porn/gore/etc instead of what you want.
Or how about the nearly hour long process to burn a $1 blank CD and have it fail as a penniless teenager
Or those 100 CDs for cheap of which you could literally peel off the data(or whatever you peeled off :-)
Got a whole bunch from my SOs father, after like 7 tries I told him, he's answer yes "I never got them working".
Got like 10 2GB SD cards he gave me too, but I was prepared and they all were like non functional.
A gigabyte was a whole lot of data back in the day.