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1. Raymond "Pumpkins" Camden Bluesky 1 min later

   14.4k would be amazed at 56k ;)

   1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 2 min later

      don’t make me get out my 2600 baud credentials

      1. Bob Monsour Bluesky 4 min later

         If you ain't seen 300 baud, you ain't seen nothin'

         1. Raymond "Pumpkins" Camden Bluesky 25 min later

            how about this - i used to snail mail "Scorpio" for game hints. it would take 2 or so months to get a response - but she was great for that

            1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 28 min later

               you win I have no idea what this is 😅

               1. Raymond "Pumpkins" Camden Bluesky 37 min later

                  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpia...

2. Slab Bulkhead Mastodon 3 min later

   @zachleat I remember staying up all night to download 300kB of Commander Keen shareware.

   1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 4 min later

      @slab_bulkhead looks like it’s on nintendo switch now 😅

      1. phil’s masto don Mastodon 10 min later

         @zachleat @slab_bulkhead 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

3. Eric Bailey Bluesky 5 min later

   get the pigeon ready

4. Mastro.{js,ts} Bluesky 5 min later

   testing on Windows again?

   1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 23 min later

      sandboxing so I don’t leak my sweet sweet npm creds

5. Private reply Bluesky 9 min later
   1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 23 min later

      officially I don’t know what Limewire is

6. phil’s masto don Mastodon 11 min later

   @zachleat I remember having to wait over an hour to load up a homestar cartoon

   1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 21 min later

      @phil and it was worth it

   2. Slasher Calavera 🔪💀 Mastodon 47 min later

      @phil @zachleat [nodding in superfriends wazzup on permanent loop because it was already downloaded]

7. Pier Bluesky 11 min later

   it still amazes me to this day to see speeds above 1MB/s

8. @usuario@instancia.org Mastodon 12 min later

   @zachleat if the 2GB HDD-me could read this

   1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 22 min later

      @usuario 2GB hard drive *feels* huge still

9. David M. Wolfman 🐺🎃 Bluesky 33 min later

   hot take: we should still be measuring internet speed in baud

   1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 36 min later

      this is not a baud idea

10. WildcatZack Bluesky 44 min later

    Read this as 60GB and was was thinking just download the iso and install but 6GB for a virtual machine really isn’t bad.

    What a world we live in…

    1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 49 min later

       😅😅😅😅

11. sean Bluesky 2 hr later

    It’s okay you’ll wake up and this will all be a dream. It’ll be summer 2001, and your overnight download of Hybrid Theory will be finished.

12. Riccardo Margiotta Bluesky 4 days later

    My kids will never know the pure terror of watching a 4MB song download trundle towards 100% as the 56K modem two-hour automatic disconnect looms... 😰

    1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 4 days later

       automatic disconnect?! is this something your parents made up 😅

       1. Riccardo Margiotta Bluesky 4 days later

          Ha, it certainly sounds like it, but we can thank British Telecom for that 'feature'. Of course, my parents did still have the option of a disconnect - just pick up the phone! (Cue anguished howl from my bedroom...)

          1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 4 days later

             haha yes — I know this feeling well