I'm really loving how Mastodon has become a refuge for all the grizzled seafarers on the ocean of the internet. They pop up in my feed and their bios all say something like
"I've been online for longer than the internet. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. 56k modems on fire in the light of Usenet. I watched IRC forks glitter in the dark near the Gateway 3000. All those moments will be lost in slop, like tears in rain. Time to deshittify."
<fake Yorkshire accent>
56k modem? Luxury! When I were a lad ...
@TheLancashireman Yeah, I've already had a mate saying "Pah! 2800 baud rate was all we had".
I'm not actually sure how fast(slow) my first connection was, because after I finished my MA in 1991 I was offline for about 8 years and missed all the very slow bits!
2800 baud, you speed freak 1200\75 BBC Micro Prestel was my first online experience.
@Mark62 @Janeishly @TheLancashireman if we’re comparing, my 110/300bps acoustic coupler wants it’s hat 
thrown into the ring.
@cascheranno @Mark62 @Janeishly @TheLancashireman
110 Baud?... we'd get 1/2 baud if we were lucky... and that was my gran talking to my friend's gran over the "speaking telegraph" (once the operator had connected them) and talking in boops and beeps, and passing that on to me to type into the cardboard box we used as a computer!
[Apologies, clearly I've watched *that* Monty Python sketch too many times.]
@level98 @cascheranno @Mark62 @Janeishly @TheLancashireman Pshh, beeps and boops? Why, when I was a lad we had to make due with boops only, and low pitched ones at that. Beeps interested the mice, the mice would run off with our bread, and it would be nothing but cabbage soup for supper!