Those dial-up sounds are pure nostalgia. It's amazing when you consider loading ...

sans_souse 11 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: AOL to discontinue dial-up internet

Those dial-up sounds are pure nostalgia. It's amazing when you consider loading a .jpg used to occur gruellingly slow on dial-up, and downloading a 5mb file might take hours. Now we stream HD video without (much) hiccup even on slow fiber, cable etc.