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you’re old ? I might be right behind ya... the earliest modem i remember in any of my PCs is a 14.4...I kept buying them as they got quicker....kinda pricey for long while.

I worked for Monkey Wards, in the Data Processing dept. mid-67,68, mid-69 and mid-71 - IBM 360 operator. Had a 300 baud cradle modem for “teleprocessing” jobs. The data transfer would last all thru the shift and then some. That was a great shift. Didn’t have to do much but dis-mount\mount tapes.

I stayed away from the internet until the WWW became viable.

Got my 2nd PC (outside of a couple of used PS2s, my first new PC was a PC Jr.) - dx4-100, went online in 11/1995 with Win95 and the NetCom Netcruiser suite. I wanted username “stylin”(short for my limo co.(one stretch limo) “Stylin and Profilin” - named after Ric Flair.)
There were(was) already 19 stylins taken, hence my stylin19.

Ran Win98 with very, very small footprint on that DX4 along with the Opera browser (back when you had to pay for it.)

Was part of a mob of users that broke the Windows98\IE integration at the same time Gates was telling the feds it couldn’t be done.

The utility was named Win98 Lite.
Once we broke that integration, we realized we could make other aspects of windows install optionally rather than mandatory.

I’ve known nothing but Windows OS (Besides DOS).
Window 10 is the best I’ve had.

I’m with you, when coax broadband came - life became gooder.

You are a few years older. My first PC was an Apple IIc in 1984, cost $2400 with Printer and Monitor. Didn’t have a hard drive or RAM, started with a 5 1/4 floppy and had to save everything on the floppies. Incredible. Used a 286 laptop at my law firm around 87, switched to a 386 early 90s. It was all DOS back then. Hated using it.

The Mac laptop I got in 93 was amazing in comparison. Color, it talked, was customizable, graphic UI, had features that Windoze didn’t get til Win 98SE or Win 2000. I ran my whole office on that laptop. Word Processing, accounting, bills, calendar I bought a PC for the kids in 1999 because all the kids games and software was PC. By then, PCs were usable, barely. I’ve had both ever since. Apple was tanking without Jobs, and PCs had good new hardware and software, so it became a better option in the 2000s. Plus they were cheaper. I went back to Macs in 2008, but I still have both and switch back and forth, depending on software and other factors.

I enjoy hearing how you broke Win98. MS really was evil. They stole the features of every company and put it in the OS. The biggest one to lose out was Netscape. They created the browser, and MS took the benefit of it away from them. Lots of companies, same thing.