(I have fond memories of using mIRC, at my summer job at the local ISP, blatantly abusing our control of the bandwidth to download a gargantuan file, a copy of a movie that just came out called "The Matrix". Good times.)
high five :D And then the horror when your mother accidentally picks up the phone.
You had to actually wait for the gratification. BTW, Soulseek still exists, and is still awesome. Kids these days.... I bet they don't even organize their media collections!
You might be one of the few people here who properly appreciates the best perk of that aforementioned summer job was it came with a free ISDN line.
More than half a lifetime ago and I (clearly) still want to brag about it. ;-)
Don't forget all the porn that cuts off before the money shot because people downloaded and then shared without noticing or caring that their video was incomplete.
Or so I heard.
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(I have fond memories of using mIRC, at my summer job at the local ISP, blatantly abusing our control of the bandwidth to download a gargantuan file, a copy of a movie that just came out called "The Matrix". Good times.)
I used to have my 2400kbps modem connected all night just for a few songs ;) ... my 486 could barely decode mp3
high five :D And then the horror when your mother accidentally picks up the phone.
You had to actually wait for the gratification. BTW, Soulseek still exists, and is still awesome. Kids these days.... I bet they don't even organize their media collections!
You might be one of the few people here who properly appreciates the best perk of that aforementioned summer job was it came with a free ISDN line.
More than half a lifetime ago and I (clearly) still want to brag about it. ;-)
No clue what Soulseek is though.. it appears to be a Mac app so that's probably why...
I was never lucky enough to have ISDN... I jumped from 56k to ADSL (after years of waiting because the phone station was too far away from my home)
Oh wow totally forgot about soulseek. Are the communities still active?
Did you mean 2.4kbps? 2400kbps should be able to download an MP3 song in a few minutes.
oops... I did
Don't forget all the porn that cuts off before the money shot because people downloaded and then shared without noticing or caring that their video was incomplete. Or so I heard.