{"id":114147,"date":"2022-07-10T14:09:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T08:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/a-gen-z-guide-to-dial-up-internet\/"},"modified":"2022-07-10T14:11:01","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T08:41:01","slug":"a-gen-z-guide-to-dial-up-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/a-gen-z-guide-to-dial-up-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"A Gen-Z guide to dial-up internet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
I’m sure there are many things millennials would like to revive from the late 90s to early 2000s \u2013 but dial-up internet certainly wouldn’t be one. <\/p>\n
One time when the internet was just beginning (way before 4G took control and then 5G spawned a wave a conspiracies), people used a phone line to connect to the web. <\/p>\n
It was as chaotic as it sounds \u2013 especially if you had promised someone you’d be on MSN at a certain time or planned to update your Myspace song. <\/p>\n
Pipex in the UK, and Sprint in America first made dial-up available to the public in 1992. The modem was the interface between your computer’s desktop and your telephone line, which you used to ‘phone’ the Internet. It generally took around 30 seconds to a minute to get online \u2013 and that was on a good day. <\/p>\n
Before lightning-fast internet connections were available, loading a web page could take several minutes. A 1GB file is a good example. Take<\/a>It takes around 30 seconds to download today. olden days, <\/em>It could take up to three days.<\/p>\n