I would rather have a 10mbps connection or even 5mbps connection than ever having dial-up again.
That's like saying you'd rather have $10,000 than $50. If that was the choice, it would be an obvious one. Dial-up was a choice between $50 or nothing. Given the options, yes, it was awesome.
Exactly :) The dial-up era was when a lot of people first got online and experienced the Internet, so of course it was an exciting time.
The sound of dial up triggers a nostalgia in some people, but not for dial-up itself - rather for the Internet as it was in that era, an undiscovered country full of possibility. Sure, things took longer to load and that sucked, but at least most of what you were loading was real content, not ads.
A lot of sites were small communities and forums run by the people, for the people. Companies hadn't yet figured out how to exploit the web. Social media hadn't been invented yet, and the modern nightmare of service enshittification and subscription paywalls on your kitchen oven were an unimaginable fever dream.
That's what was better then. Not the dial-up.
10 millibits per second means that a single bit would take over a minute and a half to transmit. That's so much slower than dial-up! I'd much rather have at least a 10 Mbps connection.
Your comment is so pedantic and dorky and I love it
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I also had to read it half a dozen times before I realized it wasn't my reading comprehension that was the problem. "What's something people believe was good for its time, that was actually terrible, even back then?" is maybe a more coherent version.
I'm not sure I have a decent example I can think of though.
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the united states. from any era.
It's always been good for the slave owners and not so much for everyone else in the world, lol. What a cancer.
This hugely misses a certain 'golden age' that took place from about the mid-30's to the mid-70's, in which 1) The New Deal, 2) helping to save the day in WWII, and 3) the postwar boom created a situation in which America was envied, social safety nets abounded, and a good life could be had even on fairly humble salaries.
That said, the revolutionary war is not really the glorious event most Americans think it is, and the fact that a Civil War was necessary in the first place is deeply troubling and shameful. And of course, black & minority rights during most of the 'golden age' were indeed a point of embarrassment.
It has never changed. It just stopped hiding the truth.
A lot of TV shows and movies from franchises still running. There's a huge amount of nostalgia attached to them, but there's plenty out there now that are just as good if not better.
It's hard not to be biased when humans have built-in rose tinted glasses though.
Personally I believe we'd all be better off if the Internet never existed.
Cocaine wasn't any better in the 80s.
You just don't start doing the fenty fold randomly in the streets. But beside that is the same crap.
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