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Anyone else remember when a 1.1GB download was a serious commitment? Now it's a coffee break curiosity.
by nly 5y ago
Anyone else remember when a 1.1GB download was a serious commitment?
Now it's a coffee break curiosity.
- marcodave 5y agoI remember when downloading 10MB was a serious commitment shakes fist at clouds
- growt 5y agoWhen I got the first smartphone for my wife (then girlfriend) we set it up when we were in a hotel (without wifi). The 10mb mobile data used for setting up email etc. endet up costing more than the phone :(
- pell 5y agoI remember when downloading 10MB would sometimes take multiple tries. Maybe the internet felt so much more exciting to me back then because it was so much slower.
- myth_drannon 5y agoGetRight download manager to your service.
- bellyfullofbac 5y agoI was trying to remember that name. Tried to look for a video of it on YouTube, there's some pickup artist who calls himself Mr. GetRight instead... But hah, their website is still alive, and they're still selling it for $20: https://www.getright.com/screens.html https://www.getright.com/screens.html
- freedomben 5y agoIndeed. I remember downloading a 3 MB mp3 file and it would take numerous tries and quite some time. Winamp would play the partial though so you could put it on repeat and get a few more seconds of the song on each run. This was back when you could find websites that just offered a collection of mp3s for direct download! The internet was a wild lawless place of free information back then.
- dahart 5y agoDamn this makes me feel old. I'm not that old! I remember when downloading 50KB was a serious commitment, over a phone line, of course. It took long enough that inevitably someone else in the house would try to use the phone and your download would get disconnected. buries head in sand
- tru3_power 5y agoLol and it would be split up into 10 100mb rar files
- nly 5y agoAnd maybe a couple of par files
- auto 5y agoThis brought back bad memories of spending days getting all those rar files, only for the final decompression to fail.
- jimmySixDOF 5y agoon a zip drive
- ZephyrBlu 5y agoFor some of us it still is.
- 8draco8 5y agoYes I remember vividly, it was April 2021!