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Dial Up. Yeah I know the sound and I know the time it took to load anything with. But it's something I won't ever miss having. I would much rather be on a 1MB connection if I had to choose between that or dial up ever again. I also hated how easy it was to be kicked off, if anyone called the phone, you were off it in seconds.

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[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Younger me would have been kind blown about a 500mb hard drive.

[–] Ubettawerk@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

That too! Imagine taking a 256 GB micro SD card to the past?

[–] TechyDad@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I remember getting my first computer: A 286 with a whole MB of RAM and a 40MB hard drive. I remember thinking that there is no way that I'd ever fill up that 40 MEGA-bytes!

Now, I'm typing this out on a phone with specs that would have shattered my brain at the time - and my phone isn't even top of the line. "Wait, your phone has 128GB of storage? Like 3,000 of my 286 computers?!!!"