I just checked Wikipedia, and was surprised to see the original DSL only had releases for about 3.5 years.
> Though it may seem comparably ridiculous that 700MB is small in 2024 when DSL was 50MB in 2002
If you go all the way back to 2002, 50 MB for an old computer wasn't that small. I bought a new computer with 192 MB of RAM as late as 2005. My 32-bit, $400 discount laptop from 2009 has 4 GB of RAM, so 700 MB is reasonable.
> Though it may seem comparably ridiculous that 700MB is small in 2024 when DSL was 50MB in 2002
If you go all the way back to 2002, 50 MB for an old computer wasn't that small. I bought a new computer with 192 MB of RAM as late as 2005. My 32-bit, $400 discount laptop from 2009 has 4 GB of RAM, so 700 MB is reasonable.