What Downloading Was Really Like Back Then
Those that have only surfed the web using broadband will never know how much of a headache downloading used to be with dial up internet. This early version allowed people to use their telephone network to connect to an internet service provider like America Online. The only problem was that if you were downloading something and someone in the house picked up the landline, it would interrupt the download process. To make things even worse, dial-up was incredibly slow.