• mavu
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    posted around 2018? maybe earlier? surely not recently.

    Or did anyone really use dialup in 2009?

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      Dial-up was still somewhat common to see in rural areas around that time, but I think most people had broadband by the mid 2000s (in the US, at least). Our family got broadband in the suburbs around 2003/2004-ish, and it was pretty new for our area at the time.

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        It’s still “broadband” by those standards. For most people that was dsl and something in the 0.5-5 Mbps range. Like 3g speeds essentially. Average family wasn’t even getting 4g speeds at home until late 2000s.