prebroadband

English

Etymology

pre- +‎ broadband

Adjective

prebroadband (not comparable)

1. Before the introduction of broadband Internet access.
   • 2001, Bill Carmody, Online Promotions: Winning Strategies and Tactics, page 256:

     For the past few months, BlueLight.com has not launched any videos during the sign-in process—perhaps it was only a prebroadband test that focus group consumers rejected. As a marketer, I thought it was brilliant.

   • 2012, Eli Pariser, The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding from You:

     It was an early precursor to Pandora; it was a personalized music service for a prebroadband era. But when Amazon launched in 1995, everything changed.