> the baud dial

corner / 2026-10-10

Drag the slider through sixty years of consumer bitrate. Each stop is a real shipping product, {{name}}, with its introduction year, retail cost at launch, and how long it would take to carry three specific payloads: one 2048-bit PGP public key, one Doom shareware floppy (1.44 MB), and one Ubuntu LTS desktop ISO (4 GB).

year —
rate —
medium —
—
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payload size time to transfer
your file
  added as the last row of the table above, sized at 8 bits per byte, no overhead

live transfer

payload
clock
sent0 B
elapsed0 s
remaining—
idle. the link runs at whatever the dial says.

all fifteen stops, log axis

100 bps10 kbps1 Mbps100 Mbps10 Gbps1 Tbps