Although I progressed from my childhood into my teens in the 90s, l don’t retain much memory of the internet back then as l had no exposure to it.

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    2 hours ago

    If I send you a 24TB hard drive in the mail and it takes three days to arrive, thats high bandwidth, high latency.

    If I send you a 24 character morse code message over the radio it’s low latency and low bandwidth.

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      Conclusion:

      bandwith = maximum volume per second, like width of a water pipe

      latency = delay in arrival, how many milliseconds the data takes to make the journey, like how slow or long a pipe is.