What does 56k mean?

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just that, what does it mean?

always saw you guys use it

never knew what it meant
 
Bingo!!!!


Wow, have you had high speed all your life for internet? If so consider yourself lucky.

I remember the days of 2400 and I'm only 28...
 
i always hated going home from college on the weekends. my parents live out in the country where all there was was dialup aol, but now there is satelite internet which makes the drive home more comforting, haha.
 
Yeah I'm on a WiMax broadband internet service. It's not the fastest in the world, but it's definitely better than dial up. Would equate it to high traffic cable internet.
 
My first modem was 1200 baud. When 14.4k FAX/modems came out they were FAST and 56k was heaven! Now my DSL is considered slow...

Regards,
GEWB
 
Harleyguy said:
I remember when there was no internet.And computers used to take up a full size room that's what i call rough
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:whs::iagree:

Those rooms use to have to be super cooled also for fear of a unit going down. I remember no cell phones either, and pagers, my how the world has changed for the worse :D
 
56 kilobits per second which is the speed that the modem can send data
 
redboost10 said:
56 kilobits per second which is the speed that the modem can send data
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what does that have to do with detailing a car?

are you being sarcastic?

could you explain and be more specific?
 
I remember 4-track tapes (yeah, that's even before 8-track)
 
megsuser91 said:
what does that have to do with detailing a car?

are you being sarcastic?

could you explain and be more specific?
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people put that in their thread titles when they have a lot of pictures just to warn people that have 56k dialup so it does not take so long to open the thread. i am not being sarcastic
 
redboost10 said:
people put that in their thread titles when they have a lot of pictures just to warn people that have 56k dialup so it does not take so long to open the thread. i am not being sarcastic
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thanks
 
Man you guys are going back to the stone age. The younger crowd have no idea what life was without all the frills that they can't live without nowadays . Man and the funny thing that was not that long ago.
 
killrwheels@autogeek said:
:whs::iagree:

Those rooms use to have to be super cooled also for fear of a unit going down. I remember no cell phones either, and pagers, my how the world has changed for the worse :D
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I remember what we call today..email, back then it was called Post-It-Notes !!!
 
Anyone remember when the Fax machine was considered a technological marvel?
 
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