I don’t mention that old tech to most people, lest I appear as old as I am.
I think it went 2.8 to 14.4 to 28.8, to 36.3 to 56.6. 56 was so fast that not all telephone systems or ISPs could go the full speed.
Then, my neighborhood was one of the first in the country to get cable internet, around 1997 or 98. 3 or 4 mbps seemed like I’d died and gone to heaven.
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.