• Geobloke@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      We used to read it as kids when we went over our internet quota for the week and it was the only thing that still loaded

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        10 months ago

        How old were you then? What was your internet quota? It’s so interesting to hear how different age groups or demographics interacted with the same content.

        • bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml
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          10 months ago

          For me in the mid 2000s we had satellite internet and I think the daily quota was like 200mb.

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            10 months ago

            I remember around the same time we had a 300 MB monthly quota on dialup. It made me very wary of what I did online and how large different kinda of media is.

            Things changed a bit after we got a 4(?)GB monthly quota over 3G a few years later.

        • Geobloke@lemmy.world
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          10 months ago

          A teenager, so early to mid 2000s. I can’t remember what the quota was other than a couple of dodgy limewire albums and computer aids. And dad getting pissed when we pretty much bricked his computer

    • Vlyn@lemmy.zip
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      10 months ago

      I read it a lot, but it feels like there hasn’t been new content in years, so I stopped visiting at some point.