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I was watching TV with my wife this last week and she stopped the channel surfing on a movie with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan called You’ve Got Mail. One thing that stuck in my head about the movie was the scene where Meg Ryan’s character was going online and you can hear the dial tone that people who had internet in the late 90’s remember so well. I remember thinking about how a 56 k modem used to be high speed. Now we live in a world advertising cable internet at 15 MBPS and fiber optic download speeds of 20 – 50 MBPS. Unfortunately…
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