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Jonny 290 posted:12x download time to play time ratio on dialup, iirc? for 128k mp3s well, the most i ever saw from a 56k modem was about 40 kbps down, and ignoring headers and other overhead the 128 kbps mp3 will be...128 kb per second of song. so best case you'd be looking at about 3 minutes of download for every minute of song. 12:1 definitely feels more like the usual though.
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shoeberto posted:Yeah that sounds right. yup that was loving wild. click a link and...there's the page. it's there. you can read things or click more links, it's good to go, it just loving LOADED it's THERE holy CHRIST this changes everything
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Jonny 290 posted:best thing about parallel zip drives was that they were actually scsi drives with a scsi <-> parallel bridge jammed in there. lmao that’s funny. we had a couple zip plus!s that could I guess detect the pinout and operate in either mode. lol that the BOM was basically the same as the parallel one. thing was super loving fast when used with scsi though. shame external 25pin was pretty rare by then.
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I distinctly remember copying something off a floppy and thinking “someday my internet connection will be as fast as a floppy disk and that will be awesome!”
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SO DEMANDING posted:yup don't worry, real-world performance for people without adblockers is back on par with dialup now
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i remember leaving my computer on for an entire weekend to download one 160x120 15fps mpeg of a single simpsons episode. now i see 45gb in the steam downloader and am like, yawn, oh well, guess i'll watch some youtubes for half an hour.
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Oct 6, 2021 01:35
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For some reason Nero has been emailing me the past few weeks. Apparently they’re still going.
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speaking of download speeds, i ran into some site that used progressive jpegs and that took me back. remember when you could watch websites render each new element as it streamed in?
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Oct 6, 2021 04:30
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Orb drives were like a zip drive but they could hold a few gigs. They were shock sensitive, if you ever dropped a disk it was done.
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i never got into any of the zip drives but last time i used a floppy disk was in 2003 when i had to get a resume printed at staples for a job interview in a couple hours, lol it was truly some dark times. the disk had a read error so i had to rush home and burn it onto a cd and i remember thinking it felt so wasteful. i didn't get the job either
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shoeberto posted:Yeah that sounds right. Yeah. I wish website were still like that.
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Mapping Zork made me lose my got dang patience. I had to start over like three times. I wonder if some mega brains can beat it/them without mapping?
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polyester concept posted:i never got into any of the zip drives but last time i used a floppy disk was in 2003 when i had to get a resume printed at staples for a job interview in a couple hours, lol it was truly some dark times. the disk had a read error so i had to rush home and burn it onto a cd and i remember thinking it felt so wasteful. i didn't get the job either was the job interview at staples as well? might’ve been a test. 
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Sagebrush posted:well, the most i ever saw from a 56k modem was about 40 kbps down, and ignoring headers and other overhead the 128 kbps mp3 will be...128 kb per second of song. so best case you'd be looking at about 3 minutes of download for every minute of song. I'd say closer to 3 than 12 in my experience, i'd consistently get a song in about 20 mins on my 56k, so like 5:1 I guess but then I mostly hung around on T1 hotline servers (also I was downloading constantly when I was online cause it was metered and I wanted my moneys worth) Carthag Tuek fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Oct 6, 2021 |
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i remember it taking like 3 days to download the q3a demo on 33.3 which was like 80 MB. that was certainly some funny tech poo poo i just remembered.
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If I got a good connection on dialup in middle school I’d use it to download game demos from mplayer instead of fragging noobs in Q1
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Oh poo poo I just remembered trying to torrent from supernova (suprnova? whatever its name was) on 56k. Pretty sure I downloaded GTA:VC for PC off of there. Some kind soul made a rip of it where they deleted all of the VA work, so cutscenes were totally silent, but they worked, and it took the game down to like 300mb. I would start it up at like 9pm and used a shareware tool to automatically turn off my computer at like, 5am, so it'd free up the landline before my parents woke up. I did that poo poo for at least a week. I'm pretty sure I ended up finding out our public library had the PC version available for loan, so not long after I just installed it and used a no-CD crack. God drat just remembering the Rube Goldberg-rear end stuff I had to pull off as a teen with a 56k to not piss off my parents by hogging the landline. It's absolutely going to be my "kids these days!!!" material for the rest of forever.
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The other forum I regular had a huge fad for playing Ragnarok Online back ~2002. It was the biggest thing I had ever tried to download up until that point. lmao @ GetRight for DL management, wew
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lmao that gamecopyworld still exists with the exact same design since the late 90s, but now they have a gdpr cookie banner
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polyester concept posted:i remember it taking like 3 days to download the q3a demo on 33.3 which was like 80 MB. that was certainly some funny tech poo poo i just remembered. same but the 12.6mb worms demo, with multiplayer
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in soviet russia something something why are there ibm accounts? why did I ever create one? so many questions
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playing quake 1 with keybaord only over dialup on heat.net. feeling like hot poo poo cause i knew the secret room to get quad damage on e1m1 to pwn n00bs
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Remember those free dialup ISP's that'd try to pay for the connection by showing you ads? But you could just close their agent anyway
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WilWheaton posted:Remember those free dialup ISP's that'd try to pay for the connection by showing you ads? ctrl-alt-del-ing right on connection like a pro  . i could get another few kbs more than aol that way. i still remember ~6.3kb/s as the average with a lot of finaglingthat made for good ping times for tribes 1 and tfc then, and i still miss tribes 2's superb voice macros that completely negated the need for the otherwise shiny new voice chat it came with oh, also, running those games with glide and 4x aa while purchase-defending a voodoo 4 to myself
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floppy disk chat reminded me of something that happened to me in high school. I had a semester long term paper due the next day, and I probably had it 75% complete. I took home 5 copies on separate multicolor translucent floppies. this was back in the early 2000’s when the quality of floppies was going down the shitter. they had something like a 50% failure rate. I got home that afternoon and went to finish it up, and every. single. disk. was corrupted. I had it saved on my network folder at school and it was early enough I hoped I could still get it. made it to the computer lab, and when I tried to login, I got a message that students were not permitted to login after 5pm. I freaked the gently caress out, walked to another computer lab somehow hoping i wouldn’t get the same error message. I did. then I spotted a logged in computer in the corner. the loving network admin had failed to logout of his account and I had access to every students network drive. got a copy of my paper on a reliable floppy, breathed a sigh of relief, and ran out the door. in retrospect, it’s very lol, but it’s incredible how lucky I got that day
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that reminds me of how awesome dropbox was in ~2007. automatic syncing of stuff i want to not lose to the cloud. perfect. the funny tech poo poo is how badly they've hosed everything up since then. stupid commenting and cOlLaBoRaTiOn stuff i don't want
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I’m pretty sure Dropbox was the first cloud service I was ever exposed to, I got a free account with 5GB of storage and it was mind shattering at the time. that was a ton of space. still have the account today, I think it’s up to 15gb or so now, which is positively quaint.
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obeyasia posted:playing quake 1 with keybaord only over dialup on heat.net. feeling like hot poo poo cause i knew the secret room to get quad damage on e1m1 to pwn n00bs Heat.net was the best. I remember playing Q2 and TA:CC on Heat, it was such a loving blast. I also remember friends accusing me of "cheating" because I eventually learned to use the mouse to aim while they still did keyboard stuff.
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irpoweroutlet posted:floppy disk chat reminded me of something that happened to me in high school. I had a semester long term paper due the next day, and I probably had it 75% complete. I took home 5 copies on separate multicolor translucent floppies. this was back in the early 2000’s when the quality of floppies was going down the shitter. they had something like a 50% failure rate. hah good times. i had a very similar experience. started high-school in '01 and a box of floppies was on the list of required stationery. i got a box of those multi-colour transparent ones as well that were dogshit unreliable. also they came in a box made of hard brittle plastic that inevitably shattered. the only thing those were good for is to use as an excuse for when you haven't finished an assignment by the deadline. "i went to the library to print it out but it wouldnt open the document! can i hand it in tomorrow?" edit: this reminiscing has reminded me of funny tech poo poo, in high-school all the PCs were thin clients running some sorta linux UI with the citrix ICA client that would connect to a giant Presentation Server 4.5 farm. my school had ~1,800 students so it was awful. even worse was when i took technical design in year 10. you havent lived until youve tried using autocad or mechanical desktop on citrix. Pile Of Garbage fucked around with this message at 03:51 on Oct 7, 2021 |
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Circa 1998-1999 every college student would just open share their MP3 dump with windows file sharing, and everyone would talk about how you just have to "open network neighborhood" and get tons of music from your floormates' computers since you were all on the same browsable network segment Before Napster there was Scour dot net, which crawled university netblocks for open SMB shares and indexed the MP3s on them in a search engine. They also had a download manager tool that would handle queuing up downloads and handling retries when you're trying to download from a college kid who turned off their computer. anyway it's totally unsurprising that one of the founding team members of this totally sustainable and not-shady venture was Travis Kalanick
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kitten smoothie posted:Before Napster there was Scour dot net, which crawled university netblocks for open SMB shares and indexed the MP3s on them in a search engine. They also had a download manager tool that would handle queuing up downloads and handling retries when you're trying to download from a college kid who turned off their computer. lmao that rules
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Pile Of Garbage posted:hah good times. i had a very similar experience. started high-school in '01 and a box of floppies was on the list of required stationery. i got a box of those multi-colour transparent ones as well that were dogshit unreliable. also they came in a box made of hard brittle plastic that inevitably shattered. the only thing those were good for is to use as an excuse for when you haven't finished an assignment by the deadline. "i went to the library to print it out but it wouldnt open the document! can i hand it in tomorrow?" literally same. man cloud storage must really gently caress up high school students. Floppy's carking it constantly and early flash drives being dogshit were great excuses. Now Word autosaves everything online constantly.
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when I started college every single dorm hall and school building was on H U B S loving HUBS, not switches. so I’m sure it was collision central, but you could see every single computer on campus. I had a program that would just scan every IP in a block for open SMB shares and return the findings I got so much music, software and movies that way. it also had the added advantage of on Napster, peers that were on campus would show up with a ping time of 1, so if you saw one of those in your Napster searches, you went for it. this was also peak edgelord time at the height of BMEZine and rotten.com and whatnot so I also inadvertently stumbled on a lot of really gross hosed up poo poo 
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:when I started college every single dorm hall and school building was on H U B S my second year of college I took some computer class and the instructor was also the network admin (small school of 3000 peeps). he recognized my name and after the first day pulled me aside and said I accounted for about 30 percent of the entire school traffic because I was torrenting anime all day with many instance of the og BitTorrent client I miss the old internet. it’s all boring now. or I’m just old and jaded
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that’s awesome, I used Scour back in 1998 or so but had no idea how it worked. clever to scan uni ranges
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Animal Friend posted:literally same. I dunno, the whole Chromebook-in-schools thing makes it so a lot of kids have no idea how files (or file systems) work at all, they can still probably get away with "I spent all night on it but now I can't find it on my Drive!"
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shoeberto posted:I dunno, the whole Chromebook-in-schools thing makes it so a lot of kids have no idea how files (or file systems) work at all, they can still probably get away with "I spent all night on it but now I can't find it on my Drive!" sorry prof, my homework is in the google graveyard 
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Plank Walker posted:sorry prof, my homework is in the google graveyard i'd believe "the google service that hosted my homework was shut down" far more than the old "my dog ate it"
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