Your internet connection speed

[oj88]

naalala ko noon ang top of the line telephone modem 56kbps hehe. ang isang mp3 na 3mb pag malas ang connection inaabot ng oras haha

56k was actually state-of-the-art, when you'll often only get V.34 (28.8k or 33.6k), at best, with the crappy analog lines we had.

I started with a 2400 modem, then 9600, then spent the longest time on 14.4k. It took us a while to get to 56k because of the then competing standards; K56flex and X2. The two later agreed to be inter-compatible and came up with the V.90 standard.

Towards the tail end of the dial-up era, I snagged a US Robotics Courier V.Everything... considered to be one of the more premium modems of the time. A year or two later, broadband hit critical mass and the rest was history.

I still have the USR. It's dead tech but I can't bring myself to get rid of it.