WorldWideWeb, as it was.

[robkelk]

Ever watch The Starlost? (If so, sorry...) Remember the text-only computers that had the characters appear so slowy that you could see them appear?

Those were real terminals, and that was the actual speed they worked at - 110 baud. (Not 110k - 110,000, twice as fast as the fastest dialup before people started using broadband everywhere - 110.) They were nowhere near powerful enough to run the CERN browser, which didn't exist at the time anyway.

And I know this because I had the opportunity to use a terminal exactly like them, on the fastest dialup available at the time. (That network no longer exists.) Granted, the terminal that I got to use had a switch that would allow use at 300 baud - so fast that the words popped up as words, not one letter after the other.

Later, I got to use paper tape...