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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 156 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

What, you never downloaded a game divided in 40 100MB chunks off of MegaUpload before only to find out part 27 is broken🫠

[–] CodingCarpenter@lemmy.ml 59 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Fucking war flashbacks happening now

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

When gen Z asks about this the only response we can give is "you don't know man, you werent there".

[–] cheeso@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

it ain't that far back for early gen z to not experience

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

LimeWire has entered the chat....

[–] locuester@lemmy.zip 17 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

What, you’ve never downloaded a game divided into 5 1.2MB chunks via a 1200 baud dialup modem using XModem on a WWIV BBS and had your mom pickup the phone on the last file?

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 weeks ago

The best I got is 200 10 meg chunks on a 512k ): part 150 something didn't work...

I was very sad.

[–] turdburglar@piefed.social 7 points 1 month ago

oh luelinks, you are missed

[–] almost1337@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 weeks ago

This is basically how Usenet piracy works, only with backup sources in case part 27 is broken

[–] Kissaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

There are good file hosters, not only bad. You can see gofile in the screenshot, where you can download full-sized files at full speed.