News FCC quadruples requirements for basic broadband service — 100Mbps download and 20Mbps upload are now the base standard

[JeffreyP55]

Back in the days when the internet was actually only universities and government. The company I worked for paid to have a T1 line run to the local university for internet services. Back in the days when 1.5mbps was so fast compared to a dialup modem.
We even got a whole class B ip block that the company still hoards.

I was an Science and engineering principal tech at SLAC. A short walk from the university. High energy labs collect a lot of data from experiments. Transferring data had to be as quick as possible. Impressive computer building. https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/