• Geobloke@lemmy.world
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    5 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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      5 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
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        5 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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          5 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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        5 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