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Most people I knew had 56k modems by 98 (by '99 I had a cable modem), 128kbs compression was the standard you'd find, and getting a song for free by just waiting 15 minutes was still magic

Edit almost forgot about Ethernet in the dorms. I picked my college because of high speed Internet.




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