Anti-nostalgia thread: what are y’all happy is gone and hope never returns?
Anti-nostalgia thread: what are y’all happy is gone and hope never returns?
Anti-nostalgia thread: what are y’all happy is gone and hope never returns?
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Dial-up internet. I would open a website and go do something else for a minute until it loads, then fight with my parents when they pick up the phone when I've been downloading something for 3 hours.
We had very late internet infrastructure upgrade, so at the end we had a bluetooth dial-up internet router in the early 2010s...
Internet over bluetooth is a crime against humanity
@simple@lemm.ee Minitel was even worse. But then, Minitel was a French exclusivity.
obligatory quick Sylvqin video (in french though)
I haven't known the minitel but I guess that the novelty of BBSes compensated the loading time