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It feels like the early days of the internet!!!! (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Back before music piracy was a thing; because who's going to download a 3-4MB file on a 14k4 modem? By the time you grab one song you'd have racked up such an internet bill you might as well have bought the single.

[โ€“] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I remember spending all day downloading files from a Quake server because I happened upon a server running Team Fortress and had to download the mod. On a 28.8k dial-up modem. It was like 500MB or something.

Then of course when I get into the game, it's on ctf_crosstheborder and was the most confusing thing I had ever encountered.