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How hard was it to access the internet in the 90s? (piefed.zip)
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[–] dermanus@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago

I was born in 1984.

In elementary school, there was one computer in the library where you could visit an online encyclopedia. By the time I finished we had dialup at home (56 kbps).

In high school they had to block Napster on the school computers because we were all pirates. I got high speed (1 Mbps) at home around grade 11.