The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old
The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old
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The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old
The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old * TorrentFreak
I'd argue it had reached its prime. Websites were just websites then, not data harvesting machines.
Maybe the content reached its peak, but I’d argue we are in a better place now UX-wise.
Full disclosure: I type this from a network running pihole. Flashing banner ads to other people’s blogs were definitely better than todays adverts — and I’m looking at you, most recipe sites.
Plenty of people had broadband, I was one of the first to get it in 1998. A whole 512Kbit.
In 1999, I had a 25mbps asymmetrical static IP for $25/month from a new technology called a cable modem. It rocked. I could download faster than the local school/college that was still using T1 lines.
They clamped down hard on upload speed when torrents became popular. If I recall, my IP was 72.45.27.220 back then. I ran websites, file servers, streamed my music library, and used QuickTime broadcaster to stream TV/VHS so I could watch videos while in class.
You forget how long sites took to load over 33.6k, and how limited your options were for email before Gmail became popular. Free email plans were measured in megabytes, and you could only send like 200k worth of attachments per message.
The bottleneck was your internet speed back then, now it’s your CPU.