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Dial up, now that was the real internet.

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Dial-up had two good qualities:

One, it made LAN parties viable, since most people couldn't play games without lag, or share files, any other way. Yes, its good that we have those two things now, but it means we lost a cultural institution.

Two, it made bloated websites nonviable as a business proposition. All the advertising bullshit we have to block today wouldn't be there if websites had to load promptly at 5KB/s. Same with the useless javascript (that is, all javascript). The cancer of the modern internet, video, was nearly nonexistent at those low bandwidth levels.

We really should have had the Great Recession start earlier, around 2005, and be accompanied by bankruptcies of companies operating major fiber links so there would have been a massive bandwidth crunch. Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, they all would have been strangled in the cradle had that happened. Abominations like Twitch and Discord never would have had the chance to evolve in the first place.

Literally the recession (it can barely be called great) happened during the smartphone takeoff and barely even blunted it.

>One, it made LAN parties viable, since most people couldn't play games without lag

Dude holy shit.

Back when people were on dialup LAN parties weren't for playing games, people were furiously copying disks, go back to sucking cock you fucking pretender faggot.

the old internet is still there, it's not like you cannot write a website in pure html or host an irc, ftp, gopher server. fucking kys faggot, faster internet is awesome for it's true purpose aka warez

Jesus christ, I see you personally shitting up this board almost daily, do you ever leave your cave?

I'm here like once a week for a few hours.

You must have no life.

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>or share files
those were literally the next three words I said you fucking retarded tripfag

I had cable in the 90s.