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>> But on the whole I don't really remember the web being slower or less usable than it is now I remember taking 24 hours to download something like an IDE or
by rufus_foreman 4y ago
>> But on the whole I don't really remember the web being slower or less usable than it is now
I remember taking 24 hours to download something like an IDE or the JDK.
No way could I do a clean Maven build of one of the projects I work on now with late 90's download speeds.
- icedchai 4y agoIn the late 90's, you would've been forced to have a smaller set of dependencies, both out of necessity and because they didn't exist. In the early Java apps I worked on, we downloaded all the dependencies manually, generally from a shared drive or CVS repo, and put them in our classpath.
- rufus_foreman 4y agoYeah exactly, I would typically have a directory with all the dependencies that I downloaded one by one and use that as part of the classpath, whereas now I do mvn clean install --download-the-internet