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Hmm, either your experience, or memory, of the nineties / dial-up, is different than mine and all of my (quickly polled friends). We all built a library of pain
by NikolaNovak 10y ago
Hmm, either your experience, or memory, of the nineties / dial-up, is different than mine and all of my (quickly polled friends). We all built a library of painfully-obtained 320x200 horrible overcompressed video... ahh, the memories of RealPlayer. Some video was down to 180p... heck, I still have videos that were one or two megabytes in size in my archives - that I darn tootin' well waited hours to download :)
- 72deluxe 10y agoPlease don't mention RealPlayer again. I feel ill and queasy thinking of that piece of software, its million rewrites and the CPU hog they released for Linux (at least on my lame hardware). I remember using "download accelerators" to try and grab files faster back in the day. Who knew they were just doing 4 simultaneous downloads of ranges of the same file eh? Ah I feel old
- mod 10y agoAs I recall, the download managers were primarily useful because they could resume files that didn't finish. Incredibly useful for enormous files like visual basic 6, which I spent like...a month or so downloading in the late 90s.
- ajdlinux 10y agoTIL the RealPlayer brand still exists... http://www.real.com http://www.real.com
- nommm-nommm 10y agoCan confirm, I remember downloading anime clips at 6 or so hours apiece! Not even full episodes, clips! And it was amazing! And before there was YouTube there was flash videos/animations on Newgrounds. The people I hung with back then were into animutations.
- tastythrowaway2 10y agoWe drink ritalin!