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Sneakernet and your local friendly CD burner owner with a huge catalog were readily available here in NL. Internet made it a little easier, sure, but not much.
by brnt 3y ago
Sneakernet and your local friendly CD burner owner with a huge catalog were readily available here in NL. Internet made it a little easier, sure, but not much. At least for software.
No, for music Napster was really what showed what the internet could offer but CD burners couldn't.
- dagmx 3y agoMy point around internet availability wasn’t around how you could download stuff but how you could find information. At the time, the way operating systems were advertised was in trade/enthusiast publications or the occasional tech article within a news publication or campaigns within stores. There weren’t prompts in the OS to upgrade, and most people didn’t think about their OS beyond what came factory installed. Each of the above required people to go out of their way to even know new OS versions were out unless they were enthusiasts.
- brnt 3y agoWindows releases, being not that frequent, would make the national news here, so everyone would know, if they had any interest.