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Vintage and Retro Ads, Promos, Fliers, Etc.

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The drawback of being early is that every BBS you connected to still had 300 baud, so it didn't matter for a while. But when you did match up with another 1200, it felt like warp speed. The only thing that ever beat it was the jump from fast 56k dial-up to cable modem. That was insane.

[–] marx2k@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah I remember this being the case when u first got my 9600 but most warez boards were still 2400

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Don't forget the awesome bundled ISDN with 128kbit 😌