The ‘90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president

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• Borgzilla@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Anyone remember download accelerator plus? I’d download stuff at night while everyone was asleep, then pause DAP/disconnect from the Internet in the morning. Rinse and repeat.

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  • cheezoid2@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    GetRight was a godsend too

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  • brsrklf@compuverse.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You’ve unlocked some deeply buried memory there.

    I remember I used that not so much to “accelerate” downloads but mostly because it let me download stuff in multiple sessions, instead of trying to do it in my browser and lose everything because of a lost connection.

    Hours to download a few tens of MB, interesting times.

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  • TheHighRoad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I remember the anxiety of downloading the Quake demo the afternoon it was released. My mother is a notorious phone talker, so I guarded the handset like a hawk and prayed to God that no one called. By some miracle it completed after a an hour or two. 1.1 mb I believe it was.

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  • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I remember that but never knowing what the hell it even did lol.

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• FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  ISPs: Lying about unlimited since the 90s.

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• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  20 hours… … …what were you doing?!

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  • FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Downloading a short video?

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  • grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Downloading Linux

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  • RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ll give you 69 guesses

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    • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      …pixel line…
      …pixel line…
      …pixe- nipple!!!

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  • muddybulldog@mayheminc.win ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Downloading Slackware.

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  • GordonFremen@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Didn’t RTA.

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  • Blamemeta@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Some sort of game, idling for gold.

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• RobotToaster@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Now you can never leave

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  • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But you can check out any time you like

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