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There are many things about internet usage today which people take for granted: fast browsers, widespread social media, sophisticated website designs, and much more. But it wasn’t always like that.

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In the early days of the Internet, having a high-speed IP connection in your home or even a small business was, if not impossible, certainly a rarity. Connecting to a computer in those days required ...

Internet speeds have come a long way since the dawn of the internet. In the early '90s, dial-up modems were the standard way of connecting to the internet, and speeds of over 1 Mbps were a dream, as ...

Microsoft’s January 2026 Windows 11 update (KB5074109) intentionally disables dial-up modems by removing “unsafe” driver packages like agrsm.sys and smserial.sys. PCWorld reports this security-focused ...