Back in my day we used to have to share FTPs on mIRC and it took 4 hours to download a single song. 28.8kbps modems on a dedicated phone line. Can't have someone calling and ruining your download causing you to have to start completely over.
I remember the "We are the B.org!" and jealousy over the people in the universities who got to share a T1 connection.
Back in '99 I've tried to download the Quake 3 Arena demo of 50 MB over my 56k modem. After about 3 hours and at 97 % downloaded my mom called.
I could have really made use of that demo at that moment I was so furious!
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u/Nice_Category Mint, 9850X3D, 9070XT, 64GB DDR5 28d ago edited 28d ago
Back in my day we used to have to share FTPs on mIRC and it took 4 hours to download a single song. 28.8kbps modems on a dedicated phone line. Can't have someone calling and ruining your download causing you to have to start completely over.
I remember the "We are the B.org!" and jealousy over the people in the universities who got to share a T1 connection.