33.6 modems connecting at 28.8, downloads at 6k a second would have been fast in those days. I remember getting a 33.6 modem for my 16th birthday, doesn’t really seem like that long ago now. Almost the only form of communication on the net that was in real time was mIRC and ICQ. Tombraider was the best game out on any system, one of the breakthrough games. Everytime you re-installed windows you had to spend about a day finding all the drivers for every single piece of hardware you had to get it all working again. I think I was even maxing out my resoloution on my 14 inch crt monitor at that time.

Even windows media player at that time had a crappy icon . It was good though, so much out there and no one really knew about any of it. The internet back in 1998, in australia anyway was not really main stream at all. I watched the movies like the net and hackers and thought none of that could really happen. (i know its corny now) but back then it was all inspiring, and its good to look back.