SLOW INTERNET - UNIVERSAL PET PEEVE!

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Your computer loaded this thread pretty fast, huh? Enjoy it. It's very pleasing to see things load quickly, upload quickly, and download quickly, right?! But, do you remember the old days, when none of this ever occurred? I'm talking about the stone ages from the 90s to early 2000s... you know, when we were at the mercy of DSL & Dial-up internet service during that time; cringey right?! Most of us were still too young to remember those days.

All that damn high latency, buffering, extremely poor download speeds, upload speeds, and the dreadfulness of having to wait for a damn page to load is enough to make your skin crawl, having your hair stand up; yikes! Forget about streaming games, bruh. That was unheard of because it would potentially become a joke around that time, if someone were stupid enough to make it a thing.

Nowadays, we got our precious little WIFI routers, faster internet services like Spectrum, Xfinity, Mediacom, etc. Also too, who could ever forget our precious, ULTRA-HIGH 5G internet service, with greater bandwidth and download speeds. All of this stuff gets the job done quickly because we're able to navigate through web pages, much more efficiently.

Being able to stream HD videos on Netflix that far exceed 1080(60)p, is just icing on the cake with what we have, now. Think about your monitors, cameras, smartphones, TVs, etc. Anything that you are currently paying for, or paid for at a premium price, you will receive premium service, as long as you have the internet speeds and bandwidth capacity to meet those demands.

Take all that stuff away, and I promise you your feelings will get hurt, really fast. You'll end up going to the corner somewhere, crying like a baby.

"OMG, my life is over! I don't have fast internet service anymore! Why does my monitor make so much noise! I can't upload pictures on instagram or post on twitter because my internet takes hours to communicate with these sites!" Lmfao! Most of you would be shedding tears of misery, if you had to use Dial-up or DSL internet service today! 😂

Now, think about this for a second... 20 years ago, if you were to try and click on this thread, it would take hours just to get here! Or hell, even just logging in, rebooting your monitor, or restarting your monitor would take forever, right? You'd hear that old beeping noise, often because you had that damn, Dial-Up internet service, running at 56kbps, yuck! Oh and don't even get me started on watching videos, downloading things, etc. Now, just imagine trying to download or upload files with 9.6-56kbps. Do you realize how slow that is??!

What if a devastating, world-wide power outage destroyed what we currently have today, leaving us with nothing but 1G flip phones, Dial-Up internet, shitty TVs, and monitors with poor graphics below 480p with shitty frame rates? We'd all be devastated, right? It's like taking candy from a baby, reintroducing you to the Stone Age days.

I'm not gonna ramble on too much more about the details, just check out these useful links that I found, interesting.

WIFI Evolution
Speed Requirements
The History of the Internet
Best Internet Speed Testing Apps
Fastest High Speed Internet Service Providers