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.
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56k line? We've all been there if we're old enough.
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
Bah core memory unlocked. Going through code published in books i got from the library, line by line, trying to figure out if I fucked it up or if the book had an error.
Spent DAYS fighting that... and there was an errata in the next issue ...
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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.
You fight dirty
I remember dropping Koreans from Diablo 2 by filling the text box with periods. I may have watched some friends ruin some hard-core players days in pvp.
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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.
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This has to be the most millennial specific experience I've ever come across.
I'm so thankful cable internet was the first kind I ever knew, around 1998.
The comments in this thread are making me feel even older having grown up on 2400bps modem dialing into BBSs, lol.
Wasn't one of the major advantages of torrents the fact you could interrupt a download without loosing the partial data?
Torrents was that it was decentralised
Kazaa/LimeWire/eDonkey was that it was resumable and could be downloaded from multiple sources
Napster was that you could download from someone else (and search) across all the users connected - you don't have to connect to each server.
Warez sites was that you could use the web. But all the links were broken all the time. Hotline made you run your own servers and you could be a little king of your own kingdom. But you couldn't search.
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It still is
I think the major advantage was pulling from multiple sources instead of just one other asshole on dialup. I think all the way back to Napster and even http download managers at that time could resume downloads if you lost connection
posted around 2018? maybe earlier? surely not recently.
Or did anyone really use dialup in 2009?
Dial-up was still somewhat common to see in rural areas around that time, but I think most people had broadband by the mid 2000s (in the US, at least). Our family got broadband in the suburbs around 2003/2004-ish, and it was pretty new for our area at the time.
It's still "broadband" by those standards. For most people that was dsl and something in the 0.5-5 Mbps range. Like 3g speeds essentially. Average family wasn't even getting 4g speeds at home until late 2000s.