Dial-up was a major pain in the ass. If you aren’t old enough to remember using it to access the internet, just imagine that you’re waiting for a YouTube video to buffer for somewhere between 24 hours and a month. That was how long it would take you to download a movie. Not that you’d have been downloading pirated movies, of course. With the advent of broadband in the early 2000s and its widespread proliferation since, things have thankfully got a lot better – and an entire new world of services and possibilities now exist as a result. And yet, year…
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