Dial Up Quotes

“With online porn today you just drop straight into the madness, but with dial-up it took so long for the images to load. It was almost gentlemanly compared to now. You’d spend a good five minutes looking at her face, getting to know her as a person. Then a few minutes later you’d get some boobs. By the time you got to her vagina, you’d spent a lot of quality time together.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“I'm sure I wasn't the only one who had like 15 Juno emails just to keep the free dial-up.”
― stained hanes, 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat

“I remember when I first used the internet in the 1990’s that it looked interesting. It was very slow on a dial up modem and frustrating to use. In the 2020’s it had become a staple of life and was really fast on fiber optics!”
― Steven Magee