- July 25, 2010, 8:16 pm
It used to be that people who wanted to get on computers had to sit down at a desk and prepare themselves to need a lot of patience. The first days of the world wide web for consumers at home involved serious amounts of time for web sites to load, and a whole lot of people were known for keeping magazines or books next to their computers, in hopes of being able to pass the time better while emails loaded. This was mostly due to the fact that the speed of connection was something that was more oriented towards getting started, rather than raising the bar. The first modems that were available on home computers were a world away from the high-speed access of today and the fact that wireless internet now makes it possible to get online from anywhere. You were talking 28.8 and 56.6k
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