I remember "upgrading" to a 33.6k USR Sportster.
Going through those "free AOL trials", I was a young kid at the time. I would start conversations with random people, that was more entertaining than looking for actual content on the web. I'd say all kinds of stupid things.
I remember upgrading to 56k, and being disappointed at only being able to connect at 42kbps. lol. "but my 33.6 connected at 31.2!". It was a bit faster, I could download at ~5KB/s instead of 3.X but, I remember it being overly hyped. The disappointment that downloading anything substantial was still taking increasingly long as the content got fatter. The getting disconnected every time someone picked up the phone without realizing someone was online... ahhh.
Thankfully the days of dialup are gone. I actually use it at work though. I work on a contract that services post offices, and many of them still use dialup and need to be accessed remotely. *shudder*
I often get "error 678 the remote computer did not respond", but I can hear it handshake. keep retrying and then I get error 777 out of order. lawl. software modems.
now at home I have an unlimited unthrottled cable connection and I'm quite happy with that. it's more than your average connection but well worth every penny. i haven't seen any downtime yet and it's been a few months.
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