What's with this myth that most people used dial-up during the first half of the 2000s...

What's with this myth that most people used dial-up during the first half of the 2000s? High speed internet has been around since the 90s. Are Millennials just that desperate to have their own "back in my day..." grandpa stories?

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b-but i really did have dial-up
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>High speed internet has been around since the 90s.

yes and from 199X when they first installed high speed internet infrastructure in the USA, it was not instantly installed across the entire country and activated at once, it turns out not everyone had high speed internet lines laid down in their neighborhood from 199X when it had first been rolled out in the USA

There are a lot of people reluctant to change because what they have is "good enough" in their eyes. Consider: there are still people using Windows XP

I used dialup for most of the 2000s, but I was living in a rural area

I had dialup until 2007.

No retard, the roll-out of broadband was slow and took time, and for a lot of people the price (including the cost of installation) was too much to justify what might be a few minutes a day browsing and checking email - which could all be done with their pre-existing phone line and set up.

i'm from 92 and my early childhood was commodore 64. you first worlders had cool shit a bit sooner than us

I think your premise is a loaded question. You said yourself you wonder if "millennials [are] just that desperate to have their own "back in my day..." grandpa stories". That is person-specific and anecdotal, and doesn't necessarily have to do with "most people" conforming.

"Millennials" can still have had that experience, and the "most people" context might just be from anecdotal experience extrapolated incorrectly. It's not like it's a systematic "let's pretend we had this" movement.

How old are you? Large parts of third world countries did not have access to high speed internet until the early 2000s. My parents had only dial up internet access until 2006.

And there is literally nothing wrong with that.

No you didn't, lol.

Imagine being this naive.

2005 would be moderately believable and 2004 very much so, but EVERYONE in the US had moved beyond dial-up in 2007.

I'm not from US

Born in 89. Thinking back we had dial up for a bit. I know we got a second dedicated phone line around 99. To some people born before me who were accustomed to their 1200 baud modems, this may have been high speed.

I'm not sure when we got cable but it was somewhere in the early 00's. My grandparents however lived in a rural area and were stuck with dial up much longer.

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First saw broadband in 1997 and was blown away. My parents never saw any merit into high speed internet until about 2006. Beforehand we lived in a place where DSL connections were hard to comeby. I eventually moved out and finally got speeds higher than the average 5.2kb/s.

I don't know about you, OP, but I didn't get high speed internet (and even that was, like, 4Mbps down 1Mbps up) until 2004/early 2005.

No high-speed until mid-2001 here (64/128). Fifteen years later that same ISP now offers gigabit internet for about $60 extra over that original "high-speed" package.

I know people who switched from dialup 2 years ago

I was born 83
had 28.8 modem in the late 90s
had 56k modem in the early 2000s

I didn't have any internet until 2010

I lived in a rural area for all of my childhood and most of adolesence. High speed wasn't available to us until around 2002-5.

I would download all my porn at a computer repair shop my friend's dad owned over night. We'd have lan parties there and it also had `business grade high speed`

>dial-up
>early 2000s
>myth
Underage?
I didn't get broadband until like 2007, and even now this "high-speed" internet still sucks.

I only moved to ADSL around-about 2003.

I had no internet access at all until 2006. Not everyone lives the same life as you.

Here in the midwest, we first got ADSL in about 2007, 1.5Mbit/s down and 384Kbit/s up. Up until then we had a V.92 modem. Our neighbors had RoadRunner installed when DOCSIS1.0 still used a phoneline for the upstream traffic.

The United States is a big place, I still vacation in some places that can only get satellite or WWAN for broadband.

Serbia got internet in 1997. In 2005 only 20% of population had internet.

I had grapevine until ~2005 or so. Not everyone used the internet 24/7 back then so it made less sense to shell out the extra money when all you did was check emails and do some light browsing for an hour or so.

If you weren't rich enough for ISDN, you used dial-up until early 00's.

>High speed internet has been around since the 90s.
So this is what privilege looks like ? I think I understand the rainbow heads now.

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dial up usage share equaled broadband usage share in the MID 2000s
OP is stupid retard fagget

Low speeds were wonderful. Kept people from overloading their websites with java shit.

No, it's whats life like when your parents love you

Most people I know had dial up until 2005. Then prices from the local cable company got more competitive, and it seems like overnight everyone switched. Meanwhile, I didn't get internet until 2003, and I never had dial up at home.

I still dont have glassfiber and sit on impressive 1 mb downloadspeed in a first world nation

>implying everyone wasn't glued to social media and smartphones all the time in 2005

Why was there a 4 percent drop between May 2010 and August 2011?

i tether off my cellphone and average 4MB/s. Sometimes I get over 6MB/s. That means I can download a 1080p movie in about 10 minutes; 20 minutes if its a larger than average file size and the speed is lower than average

i save money by not having a separate internet bill. this works great for gaming too; i get very consistent pings which are quite low

>literally
Not technically true but I agree with the overall sentiment of your post.

Smartphones were around in 2005? I realize they've been around in some capacity since 2000, but I didn't realize blackberries or whatever was in use at the time could render webpages.

>Smartphones were around in 2005?
This is actually a statement, not a question.

XP still runs mines, mills and factories. They make the toys and commodities you enjoy today. They don't want to upgrade nor need to. You can still buy XP compatible machines.

Try doing that on a phablet running 10.

That's fine, because the post replied to was complete bullshit.

>High speed internet has been around since the 90s.
Yeah, in about two places.

My family had dial-up until 2008 because it was so cheap. In fact, it's still cheap enough that my parents still have it as a backup at their place.

>What's with this myth that most people used dial-up during the first half of the 2000s?
"most people" did use dial up during the first half of the 2000s

i got adsl in 2003 but i was still in the minority of digital broadband customers

You are somewhat correct:
Most people never used dial-up, they went straight from not having internet to ADSL or cable.
Dial-up required a modem and some basic knowledge to get it working. - not something normies would engage in.

Personally, I had 100Mbit in the first half of the 2000's, courtesy of my university.
Shit was pretty cash, though hardly any site was that fast anyways.

I lived in the middle of bumfuck Maine til 03. College with cable net saved my life.

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Maybe people were really feeling the effects of the recession and had to scale back costs

Jokes on you, I had dial-up in late 2000s.
Eventually I got 3G modem dongle.

>Dial-up required a modem and some basic knowledge to get it working. - not something normies would engage in.
All PCs came with win-modem PCI cards

It's always wrong to use proprietary software.

I had dial-up senior yr in highschool (2006) and the only online games I could play was either GW1 or AOE2. I remember doing an Urgoz's Warren run and wasted 2hrs because I dc'd and couldn't reconnect right before the boss fight.

didnt get dsl at my house until 2010ish

started with compuserve internet, 56kbit ofc. Remembered I had to wait 2.5 hour to download a demo of worms 2 which was only about 25mb..
Now at 200mbit

WinModems typically slowed down your system though, making pretty much any task a painful misery. Dedicated modems were far better.