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terrantech on Feb 9, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and Java...

That's still Dial-up.

56k was just the last version of Dial-up. I started on 9600baud (9.6k) and it started well before that even, at something like 0.1k.

apitman on Feb 9, 2018 [–]

In my experience almost anyone referring to dialup is talking about 56.6k, or at the very least some sort of modem connected to the PTSN, screeching noises and all. Is your experience different?

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