Stop whatever you're doing & appreciate that when the iPhone 3G came out, a website loading in only 20 seconds was considered a remarkable achievement.

@BasicAppleGuy 48sec over EDGE is something that the iPhone 3G could do, but was never achieved ever again. EDGE is basically No Service

@w EDGE was actually quite good! I remember travelling to Kyiv with friends and they've had EDGE there, in Moscow we didn't — only regular GPRS, even if some base stations supported EDGE they themselves used slow connection, so full EDGE speeds were never achieved. And I was impressed by it — I could browse Deviant Art from my laptop connected via mobile phone. I had thought that we would never need more bandwidth on mobile TBH.
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@w 3G didn't even exist at the time so no, even regular GPRS wasn't considered no service — people have been paying money to have it.
When 3G appeared I didn't get all the hype because it wasn't day or night difference and then I realized that together with base stations getting replaced with 3G ones, their uplink connection got upgraded too, so most (especially non tech-savvy people) were comparing regular GPRS to 3G, they never had the chance to try what EDGE had offered.
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