The kid on the right

Mason Riverwind

Updated Wednesday, July 5, 2023 at 5:34 PM CDT

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Top Comments from Imgur

AbeFromanPartyOf3

The E kid is me on my blackberry in 2005

ME2BNS12

E stands for "edge" just in case ya didn't know. It's fancy talk for 2G internet media signal

Dunothar

Now put a thick concrete wall in front of em, 5G drops out, rest stays.

CharonPDX

Two minutes later, GPRS comes meandering in wondering where the party is.

Sixsystems

Back in my day we had our 1X CDMA and we liked it God Dammit! WAP browsers and ringtones, uphill both ways!!!

herejusttopointouterrors

no duh. s***** title just as bad as a red circle -1

SaltyInternetPirate

3G is NOT that fast. In fact I can rarely get anything to load when my only reception is 3G.

Nikolai5

Just wish 5G had more range, wherever they seem to put it near me unless you're right under the antenna it can be a**.

scratchboard

Is this the song Louis atheroux made on his Weird Weekends series?

Xenarion

It's funny seeing how mobile data affected internet technologies. Computers first started with optimisation of every single bit, then overtime as storage and internet speeds got bigger, we relaxed a bit and didn't stress much about file size. Then came mobile data and suddenly data size became super important again. Hell, json was created for that exact reason as a lighter form of xml.

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