• cawsby [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            I only played with BBSes for a year before the internet.

            It was at the time revolutionary being able to play multiplayer games with people from around the world.

            Some of the late MUDs had up to 100 concurrent players before MMOs existed.

      • cawsby [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I went from 14k to 56k to dual ISDN 128k to 1 megabit DSL in the span of two years. My dad's company paid for the ISDN lines they were like $400 a month way back when.

        It was a helluva ride.

        • Bernies3trlnKielbasa [he/him]
          hexagon
          ·
          3 years ago

          The first time I experienced high speed internet was at a friend's place whose dad had one for work (I forget what kind exactly), we were up all night, and I remember the moment when for the first time in my life I ran out of shit to do or look up online.

          Boy howdy, have tech companies solved that problem via endless scrolling on your feeds.