I bought my first computer in the very early 1980s and paid something like $600 for my manual dial 300 baud modem. I got on the BBS systems and download lots of files. Painful slow at those speeds, but the files were tiny.
Modem speeds got faster and modems got lots cheaper. I remember chatting with the Engineer of the year for all of AT&T and how we were now getting the blazing speeds of "only" 12 minutes to download an entire megabyte! That was fast.
I miss dial up as much as I juvenile acne and high school. My broadband has increased and I now have a "Gigabyte" connection, but like almost all computer descriptions, that is a outright lie. I have never been above 936 bits per second, and that is just theory, and not realty, but still dang fast.
I have a small business and we have Microsoft One Drive as part of Office 365. I send huge files up and down regularly. I just download a file from my business partner on our shared one drive.
It came down at 4.5 MB per second real world no theory. At the dial up speeds I once thought was really good it would have taken 4,116 minutes, or 2.8 DAYS.
It just boggles my mind that is just the speed of things.
I recently finished up this aerial image.
My computer with 256 Gig of RAM never blinked. I uploaded to the customer, and they loved it.
Now Amazon is selling some really fast insane internet access FTP service but I am happy with my current speeds.
I guess it is much like I imagine my grandfather would look at our 65 inch HD TV with surround sound. He was born 20 years before the birth of radio. TV was almost magic, and color TV and low def, and bad colors was just amazing.