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This reminds me of the good old days, the 90s, when I was a teenager and finally upgraded to a ~50KB/s cable modem from my puny 33600 baud modem. That was a game changer, I even ran an FTP server for a while =) It's been getting faster ever since then, but I never again had that feeling of "OMG it's so fast let's download something for the hell of it".



My first job was in that era at my hometown ISP. I got a discount on shotgun modems. We could pirate Doom and Photoshop 3 on the T1. Nothing ever seemed that fast, even now when I have a 35 mbps fios line.




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