Slow, yes, but you say slow from looking at it from a modern perspective.

As I have mentioned before, back then, our "slow" looked "fast" to us, because we had nothing else with which to compare it.

It is only now that we have true high-speed connections that we realize how slow things were back then.

But again, given the technology that was available to the public back then, it was not slow. We just learned to have patience.

Patience today? What's that?  :