Could anything have sounded more ‘broken’ than when that dialup internet was cranking up? And once you were connected you could make a sandwich while waiting for your pages to completely load.
But hey, that’s what we had to deal with for a while.
I try to explain this to my kids, they just cannot grasp the concept. And having an actual email program is foreign as well. We have gigabit and when I think about the speed differences . . .