Besides speed, what would actually suck about surfing the internet back in the day compared to now? (lemmy.world)

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My pick would be, dealing with the 'wild west' atmosphere. That being, before cyber bullying laws existed, you had bunches of people getting off scot-free with telling you to off yourself or call you a list of derogatory terms.

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[-] pornhubfan@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 year ago

needing to disconnect so your parents could make a phone call.

[-] GeekFTW@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago

This. Downloading a bunch of songs on Napster on dial up at a max of 3.5 kb/s download speed, each song taking 15-20 minutes on average to finish downloading, and right around 97% on the one you really want it's "GET THE FUCK OFF THAT DAMNED INTERFUCK NOW GODDAMNIT I GOTTA CALL MILDRED!"

2 1/2 hours later you get to go back and restart downloading Limp_Bizkit_-_nookie_4kbps_mp3.exe like you originally intended.

[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Which you try to play on your mpeg5 player

[-] AlecSadler@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

WinAmp, really kicks the llamas ass

[-] beefbaby182@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Oh jesus tap dancing christ that takes me back...

[-] Nougat@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I had a pager so that my wife could contact me when she was at work.

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