The pain was real

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.

When you have dial up you quickly realize you need a download manager that can resume downloads

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."

4kb/sec

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.

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.

FUCK YOU I'M NOT OLD YOU'RE OLD

I'm so thankful cable internet was the first kind I ever knew, around 1998.

That's why you queue the download before bed and logout in the morning.

Like and subscribe for more obsolete life skills.

99% of Duke Nukem 1st shareware disk over a 2400 baud modem and a local BBS... and Grandpa called :(

I must’ve put so many god damn viruses and backdoors in the family computer. Was generally smart enough not to run files called *.mp3.exe, but I downloaded my fair share of cracked games and keygens.

Me, playing Age of Empires, blissfully unaware that some shmuck with DSL completely obliterated my settlement 45 seconds ago and my dialup connection just hasn't caught up yet.

One of the reasons MP3 took off so well was that "CD Quality" was roughly 1MB a minute of audio, a single song would download in 10-20 minutes not hours. I remember every night before bed i'd dial up, and in the morning before school i'd burn a new CD to listen to on the bus ride.

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.

Downloading RPG maker assets for a total of 28 hours on a 56k modem using Gozilla so i could pause the download each day during peak hours and only download off peak for a penny a minute only to make the first 20 minutes of a terrible and sonewhat unoroginal RPG game, and never use it again, is a core memory for me.

I think my friend showed me how to use switches and variables at his house on his copy and i got very excited i could create a condition to be met to allow a boulder to be move. I just had to try to make something.

I think i ended up just making a game where you load in at max level and speak to someone to start a fight with the strongest monsters just to play the battle and use all the top level spells. And then just mever played again

15 years ago?! This tweet must be 10 years old now

Edit: it's from 2017, that makes more sense https://x.com/AngryManTV/status/906298612786884609

The way I discovered Team Fortress, the original mod for Quake, was because I just happened to join a server running TF and had to spend all day downloading the files from the server on a 28.8k modem so I could play on it, and when I finally got to play, I was greeted with a super racist map called Cross the Border where one team had to reach a goal point on the other side of a giant wall, another team was trying to stop them, and a 3rd team that could only spawn as snipers in two small towers on the wall whose goal I don't even remember.

I was extremely confused but God damn was it fun.

The comments in this thread are making me feel even older having grown up on 2400bps modem dialing into BBSs, lol.

This has to be the most millennial specific experience I've ever come across.

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

Wasn't one of the major advantages of torrents the fact you could interrupt a download without loosing the partial data?

posted around 2018? maybe earlier? surely not recently.

Or did anyone really use dialup in 2009?

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.

but napster was p2p, wasn't? the download could be completed later on

Is this an old tweet? Like dialup was still used but not nearly as common only 15 years ago

I lived through that, I don’t know why it took 17 hours. It’d take half an hour on a bad day for an MP3 song and there wasn’t really anything else on Napster. I’ve never heard of anyone having audiobooks on there or anything, and it didn’t do movies.

Press resume after she finishes?

Wait, you didn't have to manually unplug the modem and plug in the telephone to use it?

I remember that Kazaa would BSoD my computer if it was on for a while and somebody would use the computer. I was downloading Ghost in the Shell for half a day and then my sibling used the computer and it crashed. Got so fucking mad. I had to lock the computer everytime I wanted to download a movie. Later I learned that one of the memory modules was busted. Couldn’t do shit about it since the warranty was expired and I was a dead broke teenager who didn’t want to work. Back then bad RAM was way more common than it is today. For almost every new PC I got back then I had to RMA a module.

“Moms”?

This tweet was from yesterday at 8:50pm.

*mom