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.
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That's why you queue the download before bed and logout in the morning.
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One of the first things I ever programmed was a script that would turn the computer on around 1am, mute the audio, resume the download manager, and turn the computer off at 4am. This way I could download porn and cracked games without my parents knowing.
How did the script run if the computer was off?
I figured out how to schedule the machine to boot up at a specific time, then run the script
Only thing I can think of is Wake on LAN, but you would obviously need another PC/controller to control
I remember some PCs had an option in BIOS to turn on at specific time
You can use a pencil to rewind cassettes after the tape got pulled out by the cassette recorder
Photo says it happened after 17hrs
As long as you sleep 20 hrs a day the tip stands!
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."
FUCK YOU I'M NOT OLD YOU'RE OLD
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.
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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.
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