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Originally Posted by catcher22
In middle school I remember using 33.6k dial up to connect to my best friend's computer to share a single 50MB song in .WAV format that would take a good 3-4 hours to transfer. We would do this over night, because God forbid that somebody picked up the phone, we'd get disconnected and have to start all over.
My how far we've come lol
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I'm old enough to remember the acoustic coupler modems. You had to put the cups around the speaker and mic of the hand set after dialing the number and hearing the beep bops. After establishing the connection, you were treated to the lightning fast speed of 150 baud.