I don’t miss this specific phenomenon as much, given that high-speed internet became more ubiquitous (good luck downloading an Xbox game update over anything less than 24 Mbps) but it was fun back in the day to have a low end computer, call a number and then see Internet Explorer light up with msn.com as the start page. With Internet Explorer 6 and before, you had to wait through a painful download process, and if the connection has a hiccup during the 2MB PDF download you were making, then you better have another half-hour ready to re-start the download from scratch, and cross your fingers it completes on the second go.