chrisco255 parent
I don't know how anyone can use the modern internet with dial up. It's got to be useless for all but email.
I recently got throttled to ~1Mb/s for going over my mobile data allotment (which incidentally got me to finally switch to an MVNO), and I was amazed at how insufficient a speed that was once considered “broadband” was in 2025. It was basically unusable; sites took 20-30 seconds to load and scrolling a timeline was an exercise in futility.
I literally cannot imagine 56K on the modern web.
I used sub mb internet on a cruise and the ping wasn’t even that bad but trying to load anything other than HN was a real pain. 56k was pretty bad even back then, don’t even know how it would be remotely usable today.
I'm sure HN is perfectly usable over dial-up as well.
I know a few news sites have low bandwidth versions, which are arguable way better than the auto-play video and ads plastered across their “normal” sites.
A couple examples:
For comments, yeah but to read any of the links would probably take a while.
You guys are reading the links?
I think that's basically what they use it for.
Sites that work well with lynx are OK on dial up.
Only if the email client is set to not download images.