…the internet nowadays? OR the conclusion to last weeks soothing rant on modern kids and their modern gizmoid addiction. Some out there may still know it, but many of the younger readers may shake their head in disbelief.
THERE WAS A TIME WHEN INTERNET DIDN’T HAVE BROADBAND CAPABILITIES!

Shock much? Well, yeah, of course. In these modern days where each and every one wants to mark his or her presence on as many social networking, photo, blogging sites as possible, and the occasional one even turning up on some porn site, huge masses of digital data have accumulated. And they all have to be accessible at all time. I don’t say I am any better on that behalf. I for myself admit to using several networks and platforms, including facebook, twitter, deviantart and yours truly tumblr here.

But I still remember the times when a search on Google was still 5 minutes away when you started up the internet. And the sound the good old 56k dial-up made. I sometimes call a Fax machine just to hear that sweet sweet sound again.

And it was at this time, that the first P2P networks surged from the depths of the web. And the first of many horrendously high phone bills, which I got stuck with for (over)using them. Because it wasn’t just as simple (and inexpensive) as just dialing up, connecting and then surfing for as long as you liked (apart from that, you had to have really strong nerves, thanks to the extreeeeeeme loading times of many sites). You had to pay by the hour. 1.30$ per hour if I remember right. And when you calculate that downloading a song takes about 3 to 8 hours, you can easily come to the result that simply buying a CD would have been a loooooot cheaper. But it just wouldn’t have been as cool, would it now!

Yeaaah, those were times XD but enough about that.

Let’s be happy that we survived our parent’s deadly stares when a 90$ bill flew into the house for downloading one measly shit-quality movie, and let’s hope bandwidths everywhere will continue to grow everywhere ^_^

With that I let you go, and hope you’ll be back for a good read in a few days time.