I agree. BUT..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? :
it was slow for me then too. I remember getting pissed off when trying to obtain a 30 meg file over dialup 56K on AT&T, and it took forever. Then more and more sites getting convoluted, taking awhile to load. etc... On and on it goes
I think I can recall eBay being the first one I had issues with as time went on. Trying to keep up with bidding, or getting a bid in on dialup was a nightmare. I recall doing this on my 6100/66 with an external 56K modem. It was a tad bit faster on my P2 but not by much.
When sites were still like this: http://antiqueradio.org/gallery.htmDialup was fine
But when more and more sites started to get "animated" persay, loaded with javascript, etc is when it started to become noticeable for me.