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When my father started using the internet back in 1997, his modem could do 56 kbps in theory, and 14,4 kbps in practice.

9 years later, the download speed in the first flat I rented on my own was 8 Mbps, which already felt like a lot at the time.

I'm currently downloading something from Steam, and the download speed fluctuates a lot. Right now it's on the lower end, about 320 Mbps. When it improves, it gets as fast as 450 Mbps.

Four orders of magnitude of difference in less than 30 years.