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When you have dial up you quickly realize you need a download manager that can resume downloads

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."

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?

That's why you queue the download before bed and logout in the morning.

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15 years ago?! This tweet must be 10 years old now

Edit: it's from 2017, that makes more sense https://x.com/AngryManTV/status/906298612786884609

Me, playing Age of Empires, blissfully unaware that some shmuck with DSL completely obliterated my settlement 45 seconds ago and my dialup connection just hasn't caught up yet.

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.

I must’ve put so many god damn viruses and backdoors in the family computer. Was generally smart enough not to run files called *.mp3.exe, but I downloaded my fair share of cracked games and keygens.

FUCK YOU I'M NOT OLD YOU'RE OLD

99% of Duke Nukem 1st shareware disk over a 2400 baud modem and a local BBS... and Grandpa called :(

The way I discovered Team Fortress, the original mod for Quake, was because I just happened to join a server running TF and had to spend all day downloading the files from the server on a 28.8k modem so I could play on it, and when I finally got to play, I was greeted with a super racist map called Cross the Border where one team had to reach a goal point on the other side of a giant wall, another team was trying to stop them, and a 3rd team that could only spawn as snipers in two small towers on the wall whose goal I don't even remember.

I was extremely confused but God damn was it fun.

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.

Downloading RPG maker assets for a total of 28 hours on a 56k modem using Gozilla so i could pause the download each day during peak hours and only download off peak for a penny a minute only to make the first 20 minutes of a terrible and sonewhat unoroginal RPG game, and never use it again, is a core memory for me.

I think my friend showed me how to use switches and variables at his house on his copy and i got very excited i could create a condition to be met to allow a boulder to be move. I just had to try to make something.

I think i ended up just making a game where you load in at max level and speak to someone to start a fight with the strongest monsters just to play the battle and use all the top level spells. And then just mever played again

One of the reasons MP3 took off so well was that "CD Quality" was roughly 1MB a minute of audio, a single song would download in 10-20 minutes not hours. I remember every night before bed i'd dial up, and in the morning before school i'd burn a new CD to listen to on the bus ride.

my fav was bouncing people from the system (bbs) using the call-waiting blip during text-based mud PVP fights.. and if you really pissed someone off they would just physically cut your phone line.

Pfft. Try typing in four pages of code out of Byte magazine just to have your mom cruise over with the vacuum cleaner and make it all dissappear

I ended up just abusing my schools T1 and CD burners. All for anime music videos. Like, 90% of it was dragon ball z and Linkin park mashups. My schools IT department hated me.

This has to be the most millennial specific experience I've ever come across.

4kb/sec