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Yeah, I think of Minidisc as being popular for recording in the 90's, not consuming. MP3 were happening in the late 90's (the first Winamp release was in '97, N

Yeah, I think of Minidisc as being popular for recording in the 90's, not consuming. MP3 were happening in the late 90's (the first Winamp release was in '97, Napster in '99) but again only for a select tech/university crowd. I don't think there were any consumer handheld devices capable of playing them. EDIT: A better source on the topic than my memory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_media_player#The_MP3_standard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_media_player#The_MP3_...

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acdha 5y ago
The only people I know who used Minidiscs for consuming definitely had a hipster vibe going on — thinking of a guy who also DJed and wore studio headphones everywhere — rather than something most people did. On the music nostalgia point, I jumped on Cox's first cable modem deployment in San Diego in early 1998. That was awesome by the standards of the time: I went from a 56k dialup connection to 10Mb _bidirectional_ and they didn't filter inbound ports so you could run your own HTTP, SMTP, etc. services. Everything was great — and then about a year later Napster launched and the entire network crawled to a halt as people were just downloading crazy amounts of MP3s and DVD rips (I had a coworker who was representative: he downloaded _everything_, even music he didn't like, just because he could). That quickly lead to inbound port filtering and aggressive throttling. It took until ~2013 before I again lived somewhere where I could upload at 10Mbps or better.
- boring_twenties 5y ago
  > It took until ~2013 before I again lived somewhere where I could upload at 10Mbps or better. Here we are in 2022, and my Comcast cable connection advertises 8Mbps and actually gives less than 5.
  - acdha 5y ago
    My experience a decade ago was so Comcastic that when we moved to a new city I went with 16/8Mbps DSL rather than deal with them again. That was consistently faster than my “up to” 40-something/15Mbps Comcast package had been.

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acdha 5y ago

The only people I know who used Minidiscs for consuming definitely had a hipster vibe going on — thinking of a guy who also DJed and wore studio headphones everywhere — rather than something most people did. On the music nostalgia point, I jumped on Cox's first cable modem deployment in San Diego in early 1998. That was awesome by the standards of the time: I went from a 56k dialup connection to 10Mb _bidirectional_ and they didn't filter inbound ports so you could run your own HTTP, SMTP, etc. services. Everything was great — and then about a year later Napster launched and the entire network crawled to a halt as people were just downloading crazy amounts of MP3s and DVD rips (I had a coworker who was representative: he downloaded _everything_, even music he didn't like, just because he could). That quickly lead to inbound port filtering and aggressive throttling. It took until ~2013 before I again lived somewhere where I could upload at 10Mbps or better.

boring_twenties 5y ago
> It took until ~2013 before I again lived somewhere where I could upload at 10Mbps or better. Here we are in 2022, and my Comcast cable connection advertises 8Mbps and actually gives less than 5.
- acdha 5y ago
  My experience a decade ago was so Comcastic that when we moved to a new city I went with 16/8Mbps DSL rather than deal with them again. That was consistently faster than my “up to” 40-something/15Mbps Comcast package had been.