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How hard was it to access the internet in the 90s? (piefed.zip)
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[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

A single picture would take 5 seconds or longer

And that was for a very small picture. I can remember watching an image raster in top-to-bottom over 30 seconds to a minute, lol.

Dialup was slow, even 56k.

DSL was a game changer.