The ‘90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president::1998 plea for restraint reveals a lost world where the 'Net was an opt-in experience.
ISPs: Lying about unlimited since the 90s.
Submitted 11 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
The ‘90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president::1998 plea for restraint reveals a lost world where the 'Net was an opt-in experience.
ISPs: Lying about unlimited since the 90s.
20 hours… … …what were you doing?!
Downloading a short video?
Downloading Linux
I’ll give you 69 guesses
…pixel line…
…pixel line…
…pixe- nipple!!!
Downloading Slackware.
Didn’t RTA.
Some sort of game, idling for gold.
Now you can never leave
But you can check out any time you like
Borgzilla@lemmy.ca 11 months 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.
cheezoid2@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
GetRight was a godsend too
brsrklf@compuverse.uk 11 months 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.
TheHighRoad@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 11 months ago
I remember that but never knowing what the hell it even did lol.