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Winamp + dialup connection. How many hours have we lost downloading a bunch of mp3 files...

by pcocko 9y ago

pjmlp 9y ago
That is why those of us that could do it, would bring our ZIP drives to the university labs and plug them into the parallel port. :)
elchief 9y ago
that mp3 will be ready in 5 minutes. woohoo!
sergiotapia 9y ago
23 minutes to download Usher - Yeah and Outkast - Hey Ya!.mp3 - those were the days.
- function_seven 9y ago
  For a brief moment of my life, I got up as soon as my alarm went off. It was always exciting to see what MP3s were downloaded overnight from the queue.
  - maxxxxx 9y ago
    Somehow it was more fun and you felt like you had accomplished something when you had a complete album. Things are too easy today :)
- deadmetheny 9y ago
  I was more a fan of Spin Doctors - Pretty Baby and Tony Hawks Pro Skater - Superman, personally
- gorbachev 9y ago
  You mean USHERY~1.MP3? :)
anderspitman 9y ago
Dialup? Lucky. I had 14.4k through my dad's Startac until I was about 15.
- deleted 9y ago
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- StavrosK 9y ago
  You had the internet through a mobile phone and you're calling dial up lucky? Mobile phones were legit space age back then.
- terrantech 9y ago
  That's still Dial-up. 56k was just the last version of Dial-up. I started on 9600baud (9.6k) and it started well before that even, at something like 0.1k.
  - anderspitman 9y ago
    In my experience almost anyone referring to dialup is talking about 56.6k, or at the very least some sort of modem connected to the PTSN, screeching noises and all. Is your experience different?
yitchelle 9y ago
Too many, I'm afraid. But do you remember the first time you had broadband and the time needed to download an mp3 was so short that you can't queue up the next download.
- digi_owl 9y ago
  Had a aimilar experience recently after getting a fiber line installed and grabbing a game off Steam. Would have taken me hours on the old DSL, never mind a 33.6 dial-up. I think my aging LAN gear capped out way before the fiber did, and an upgrade is on my todo list. ;)
glandium 9y ago
I didn't have internet in my dorm, so I was downloading mp3s at university and retrieving them at home by floppy disk. That is, 128kbps mp3s, which is about 1MB per minute (iirc), on 1.44MB floppy disks. split(1) to the rescue. I did the same for (short) videos too. Crazy days.
- digi_owl 9y ago
  I think i pissed off some kids in the neighborhood when i started doing CDRs for the cost of the disc (or bring your own and i'll fill it up), when they had been selling them at a 100% (or more) markup...
- turtlebits 9y ago
  I still remember zipping/splitting files to fit on floppies. I permanently have the number 1457664 (size of a 1.44MB 3.5") in my head.
gorbachev 9y ago
I moved dorms almost entirely for this reason when I was in College. The new dorms were being built with a broadband Internet connection straight into the College network. It was leecher heaven! That is until some wiseass thought it'd be a good idea to run a private ftp site for a piracy group from their dorm room. The damn thing saturated the entire network until they got caught.
ilkkao 9y ago
For me the phone bill was even bigger issuer than slow download speed. Our local telephone company charged more than $1 per hour for all calls. I remember my parents being furious after seeing the bills.

Winamp + dialup connection. How many hours have we lost downloading a bunch of mp3 files...

by pcocko 9y ago

Winamp + dialup connection. How many hours have we lost downloading a bunch of mp3 files...

That is why those of us that could do it, would bring our ZIP drives to the university labs and plug them into the parallel port. :)

elchief 9y ago

that mp3 will be ready in 5 minutes. woohoo!

sergiotapia 9y ago

23 minutes to download Usher - Yeah and Outkast - Hey Ya!.mp3 - those were the days.

function_seven 9y ago
For a brief moment of my life, I got up as soon as my alarm went off. It was always exciting to see what MP3s were downloaded overnight from the queue.
- maxxxxx 9y ago
  Somehow it was more fun and you felt like you had accomplished something when you had a complete album. Things are too easy today :)
deadmetheny 9y ago
I was more a fan of Spin Doctors - Pretty Baby and Tony Hawks Pro Skater - Superman, personally
gorbachev 9y ago
You mean USHERY~1.MP3? :)

anderspitman 9y ago

Dialup? Lucky. I had 14.4k through my dad's Startac until I was about 15.

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StavrosK 9y ago
You had the internet through a mobile phone and you're calling dial up lucky? Mobile phones were legit space age back then.
terrantech 9y ago
That's still Dial-up. 56k was just the last version of Dial-up. I started on 9600baud (9.6k) and it started well before that even, at something like 0.1k.
- anderspitman 9y ago
  In my experience almost anyone referring to dialup is talking about 56.6k, or at the very least some sort of modem connected to the PTSN, screeching noises and all. Is your experience different?

yitchelle 9y ago

Too many, I'm afraid. But do you remember the first time you had broadband and the time needed to download an mp3 was so short that you can't queue up the next download.

digi_owl 9y ago
Had a aimilar experience recently after getting a fiber line installed and grabbing a game off Steam. Would have taken me hours on the old DSL, never mind a 33.6 dial-up. I think my aging LAN gear capped out way before the fiber did, and an upgrade is on my todo list. ;)

glandium 9y ago

I didn't have internet in my dorm, so I was downloading mp3s at university and retrieving them at home by floppy disk. That is, 128kbps mp3s, which is about 1MB per minute (iirc), on 1.44MB floppy disks. split(1) to the rescue. I did the same for (short) videos too. Crazy days.

digi_owl 9y ago
I think i pissed off some kids in the neighborhood when i started doing CDRs for the cost of the disc (or bring your own and i'll fill it up), when they had been selling them at a 100% (or more) markup...
turtlebits 9y ago
I still remember zipping/splitting files to fit on floppies. I permanently have the number 1457664 (size of a 1.44MB 3.5") in my head.

gorbachev 9y ago

I moved dorms almost entirely for this reason when I was in College. The new dorms were being built with a broadband Internet connection straight into the College network. It was leecher heaven! That is until some wiseass thought it'd be a good idea to run a private ftp site for a piracy group from their dorm room. The damn thing saturated the entire network until they got caught.

ilkkao 9y ago

For me the phone bill was even bigger issuer than slow download speed. Our local telephone company charged more than $1 per hour for all calls. I remember my parents being furious after seeing the bills.