The closest thing kids today will get to what 56k dial up was like is loading a huge picture on Hexbear with shitty wifi and watching it inch down the screen
Zoomers will never know the annoyance of spending several minutes downloading a playboy photo only to find it won't display because the first version of Mosaic didn't do JPEGs, leading to a futile quest to find some free software to view JPEGs that worked on Windows 3.1.
while progressive jpegs are generally preferred, they do have an issue where towards the end it’s not clear if the image is blurry or if it hasn’t fully loaded yet (more benefits, though)
Youngins will never know what its like to hear the connection dial up tone that sounded like screams of a tortured AI consciousness begging for the release of death. Good times