Submitted by edwardianpug t3_yqc7et in BuyItForLife
Significant-Weight64 t1_iw0ccd8 wrote
Reply to comment by Jonyb222 in My 17 year old IBM Thinkpad T43 connecting to the internet at 800+Mbit/s by edwardianpug
A good high-bandwidth, low-latency network connection such as you might find at a university was great back then because it meant you often retrieve anything from the Internet faster than you could load it from your HDD.
Mind you, fast network connections are still great, but the days when the Internet could be faster than local storage are pretty much gone.
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