56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience

this is great, but everything loads WAY too fast. It took forever to get anything to load back in the day.

Why do the websites feel faster than modern internet?

It was fun chatting with you guys :D

Cool, but webpages load too fast.

Beautiful.

Now we just need to bring back BBS’s and the daily turn based games. Legend of the Red Dragon, Usurper, etc.

I just remembered ripterm and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Imaging_Protocol

Fun and cool. The News made me chuckle.

A lot of people don’t know how cool it felt to dial into the internet or a service like Compuserve or Prodigy and suddenly have this whole world open up to you. Even at 56k.

I'm sure someone pointed this out in the other thread, but 56kpbs modems essentially didn't exist in 1996. They launched at the end of the year, cost a ton, and the manufacturers hadn't standardized the speeds, so it really didn't matter much as you weren't browsing AOL, MSN or Compuserve with it yet.

33.6k.rip is a harder domain name to get though, so I get it.

Reminds me of this xkcd comic: https://xkcd.com/3227/

Select modem mode and just hurt.

[dupe] see previous conversations in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340252

That reminds me. Can we standardize cypress tests to load the website via a restricted speed as one of the tests? Some of of our modern webpages are still slow on the latest iPhone/Pixel/Samsung over 5G.

8,600,743 bytes of assets and frameworks later I'm finally able to see your contact-us address.

I miss it.

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