I remember the fear any time something was greater than 1MB. My first download on any new computer was always a download manager to try and avoid the constant drop-outs and restarts.

Loving the discussion & history here.

I started my online journey on a bleeding edge (and very expensive) 28.8k modem. I still remember the amazing feeling of speed migrating to 33.6k and eventually 56k. We were semi-rural so while the eventual availability of DSL was game changing, our lines were so bad it was less reliable that dial-up. If it rained we had no internet whatsoever.

So glad things have moved on significantly since then.

After leaving Evernote way back when I was in the wilderness for a while. Finally landed on notesnook, haven’t gone back since.

Finding it way easier to engage and comment. Don’t have to wade through thousands of shit comments on Lemmy. Loving it!