I used 110 briefly, then 300 for a while. When I got a 1200 baud modem, I thought I had died and gone to heaven. I could work from home most days rather than commute into Boston from Tewksbury.
Now, 80 megabits/second seems barely adequate. Fortunately, I'll be moving to a new place later this year with gigabit internet, for $65/month.
Thanks for the reminder. I don’t think I ever had a 110. I think 300 was what Prodigy used in the late 80s, when you could only log on to their site. I had that, but didn’t use it much. I think my first modem not tied to Prodigy was the 1200.
Text requires remarkably little bandwidth. That’s why FR was designed the way it was; it loaded so well during the 28.8 days. It still loads quickly if I am at a place with bad wifi. The downside is lack of visual stimulation. Now with much faster speeds, we are able to do so many things that before we would have avoided because they slowed us down. I remember in the early days of the internet, 95 or 96, I was doing a seminar for other lawyers on the internet, and the other presenter was telling everyone to go into settings and turn off graphics, because he hated sitting and waiting while a picture or background loaded. He was right from a busy lawyer’s perspective, but not from a web designer’s. Lucky for the latter, the speeds got better within a couple years.
Looking forward to Gigabit fiber in about 6 months in my neighborhood. I can’t stand AT&T. Had to endure an outage just last weekend.