When meta released their EnCodec neural net audio compression codec I thought about how the 48khz stereo examples, compressed down to 6 kbps, sounded better than I remember streaming Internet Radio sounded like circa 2003, and would have been able to be streamed realtime, no buffering, on a 14.4 kbps dial up modem (what I was rocking at the time) with a bit of bandwidth to spare for browsin' teh warez sites and .... based on some napkin calcs and assuming a little MMX instruction magic I think completely possible to run the neural net decoder fully real-time on a period-correct AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton (overclocked to a 3200+ of course, as all did!).

Man that would have felt like magic...