28.8 ? I started with much less , late 80’s pclink and compuserve and bbs, think the modem was 300 b.
My first modem was an acoustical one that moved at a blistering 9600 baud.
Everything was character cell, no graphics, the modem ran at 30 characters a second. It took "days" to fill a screen.
Around 1994, Mosaic came around, and boy was it awesome, even on a 2.8 baud modem. Clicking links to get to places, seeing pictures load (after a minute or two), and so on. I think Netscape was the successor to Mosaic. The next few years were like an infancy. Then, Yahoo came along, and it made things a lot easier, with its use of indices. But the next big advance was search, and that made the internet far more useful.
As bandwidth grew (in 1999, I was one of the first to have a cable modem instead of a 56k modem) the internet blossomed.
Hard to imagine that when I first logged on here, it was with either a 33.3 or 56k modem.