for me it was back in 2012 i think

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I think 2008 or so.

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2012!?

Holy Smokes!

I thought I was late by 2005.

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I went to college in 1997 and went from 28.8kbps dialup to a 2.4gbit OC-48. I had no idea how slow the rest of the internet was until I had a better connection than most servers (at the time).

Edit: I was connected to the dorm ethernet via 10mbit NICs. So even with 5 PCs running in my dorm room, we were only using a fraction of the available bandwidth.

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Your dorm must have had epic lan parties.

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I worked for the department that ran student computer labs (before most people started bringing computers to college with them). That’s where the real epic lan parties happened. Every time we’d update the desktops we’d celebrate with an all-nighter lan party for staff and friends.

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I went to a small charter high school around 2002-3 and their whole education curriculum was on computers. The school principal would do monthly lan parties, then wipe the floor with us teenagers on age of empires 2. I still fear elephant charges.

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My exact timeline.

Hello fellow 45 year old.

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Hey! How are your knees?

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Kinda painful when it rains, cause of the titanium pins

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What was the time in-between those two?

Would be insane going from 28.8k to 2.4gbps

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The 90 minutes drive from where I grew up to my dorm room.

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So you moved and got a 83333x improvement just by moving?

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I stopped once I ran out of hours. ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

I think I got DSL in 2000 or 01.

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Same for me. I got DSL in the summer of 2000.

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Same. Went from radiks.net dial-up to US-West business DSL. Registered my domain at the same time, mspencer.net

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2002~2003 We got a glorious “high speed cable internet” of 1mb when we were kids. My mom got pissed off that we were waking up at 4 am to play Tibia on school days and hired it. In my country, dial-up was free before 6 am and past midnight, and after 2 pm past saturday, so we had to play while it was free. She got really mad at us, but instead of taking the pc away, she realized that the game was helping us learn English and decided to hire cable internet. I bet my home was one of the first ones in my city to have “”“good”“” internet back then. None of my peers at school had it until a couple of years later.

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