When you have dial up you quickly realize you need a download manager that can resume downloads
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Maybe I was just unaware, but download managers only came a little down the pike. For a while it was just "Big file? Good luck!". And there was something exciting about it.
Back in the 80s I ran my own homebrew BBS for a couple years. A second phone line then was only $9 more a month, so I got one for the computer so phone use wouldn't be an issue. My roomies and I thought we were livin' the life.
When I was really young, I was blown away the first time i met someone with their own phone line for internet lmao.
I remember you! Has that acne cleared up?
Anyone with dial up Internet trying to pirate knew the dreaded 4 words "UNEXPECTED END OF ARCHIVE"
my brother called this "the download fucked itself."
DSL was such a game changer for so many reasons.
Not the least of which was that you could be online while someone was using the phone.
Shortly after, we completely stopped using phones.
We stopped using landlines.
Phones are everywhere. I mean, they're rarely used to talk to people like a landline would be, but they're still everywhere.
Now we use handheld supercomputer/camcorder/communicators.
Anyone remember zmodem with resume? Kermit??
Damn, I'm old.
Are people not downloading huge torrents anymore?? How is downloading some large thing overnight a rare occurrence of bygone eras????
My only guess is that kids these days don’t know about pirating and instead stream everything or download apps?
If you interrupt an internet connection on any normal torrent client from the last, like, 20 years, you can always resume when you're back online. But back in the 90's most software didn't fail that gracefully. And the internet connections today just aren't as flaky as a dialup connection was.
Web browsers still don't have proper file download resuming capability despite web servers [nearly] all supporting everything needed for it.
God I wish Mozilla wasn't run my MBAs. Web browsers could have been so good by now.
We still are but now we have gigabit service.
We have gigabit, 2.5 and 5Gbps speeds now. Even 100GB+ games download in less than 15 minutes. Literally nothing takes several hours anymore.
This is why I was much more into mangas than animes as a teenager. Each anime episode took more than an hour to download... I could at least download mangas faster than I could read them.
The summer after my parents divorced I spent many nights in the corner of the now-empty house with one bar of wifi from my friends house with like 10 tabs of anime loading on an old Dell laptop I only made usable by installing Linux mint.
Good times? Idk, memorable tho for sure
4kb/sec
Who was using dial up 15 years ago (2009)? I grew up in a very rural area and even we got broadband by like 2003 or so. I think someone got their math wrong.
Lol Napster shut down in 2002, it's clearly not a present day tweet.
Napster ran from 1999-2002, meaning the tweet must be between 7-10 years old
Edit: or just be made up and a guess at the time dfferential.
Napster is currently alive as a Spotify competitor just as a notice
No, no it is not, an unrelated company bought the brand and logos at bankruptcy auction and started Napster 2.0, a rebrand of an unrelated music service, which was then bought by Best Buy and became Rhapsody, then THAT was sold to some tech companies and unified branded as Napster again. It has no connection other than branding to the original Napster.
Says no then goes on to explain that it is around and how it got there
There's ship of Theseus and then there's Theseus threw out the whole ship, bought a used ship from someone else but it was still called the ship of Theseus because it was, literally, the ship of Theseus, but you still wouldn't say THE ship of Theseus was still alive and well.
An almost completely unrelated company named Napster is currently alive.
You don't know how old this post is.
The house I grew up in just got a wired connection (fiber) in 2024. We had 3G by 2009 but the data caps and cost made it not ideal. Couldn't even get ISDN.
I'm so thankful cable internet was the first kind I ever knew, around 1998.
56k line? We've all been there if we're old enough.
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