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[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

not everyone is a westerner you know

my village didn't get any kind of internet, even dialup until like 2009, i remember pre-internet and i still don't have mortgage

e: now that i'm thinking ADSL was a thing for maybe a year or two, but it was expensive and never really caught on. the first real internet experience™ was delivered by a sketchy point to point radiolink that dropped every time it rained. much later it was all replaced by FTTH paid for by EU money

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

heh yeah

I had a pretty weird arc. I got to experience internet really early (‘93~94), and it took until ‘99+ for me to have my first “regular” access (was 56k on airtime-equiv landline). it took until ‘06 before I finally had a reliable recurrent connection

I remember seeing mentions (and downloads for) eggdrops years before I had any idea of what they were for/could do

(and here I am building ISPs and shit….)