EEEE-AWWW-KKKKKSSSHHHH-BONG-BONG-BONG-KSSSSHHHH. You know the sound. Everyone over 35 knows the sound. That was the sound of connecting to the future at 28.8 kilobits per second.
A single photo took thirty seconds to load, appearing one horizontal line at a time from top to bottom. You would watch a face slowly materialize like a polaroid developing. If someone picked up the phone, the connection died and you started over.
'MOM, HANG UP THE PHONE, I'M ON THE INTERNET.' That sentence was shouted in every household in America between 1995 and 2002.