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layer8yesterday at 8:14 PM1 replyview on HN

I remember using a “high-speed” 14.4 kbps modem. I mean, these were thousands of bits per second, really insane. Faster than many LLMs.


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acheronyesterday at 9:47 PM

At 2400, you could watch the characters from the BBS come up on your screen, but at 14.4 practically the whole page came up at once!