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You were already downloading movies in the 90s? What kind of bandwidth did you have?
by steve1977 2y ago
You were already downloading movies in the 90s? What kind of bandwidth did you have?
- mixmastamyk 2y agoMore likely music. I do remember a few people with dsl or isdn at home, t1 at work.
- elzbardico 2y agoI think that he meant that pirating nowadays is as easy as it was to rent a physical tape or disc in a rental shop in the 90s.
- 47282847 2y agoIt took a week or so on 56k and later ISDN, but, sure. :)
- wmf 2y agoThere weren't any movies to download (besides porn clips) in the ISDN days and your hard drive probably wasn't big enough to hold a movie.
- _AzMoo 2y agoThere were in the very late 90's, and lots of us were still on dial-up/ISDN at that time. They were usually in asf, rm, avi, or mov format, and were incredibly low quality. This is around the time we were using invite-only FTP servers to share stuff.
- steve1977 2y agoI remember downloading the Star Wars Phantom Menace trailer in QuickTime format (because the RealPlayer version was so bad) and even that took quite a while, even though it was only a trailer.
- sho 2y ago> invite-only FTP servers The PC plebs might have been, but us Mac people had the glorious hotline community..
- CuriouslyC 2y agoI downloaded movies in the late 90s on a 56k modem. The movies were generally compressed to fit on one or two writable CDs, you can download 700MB easily overnight (about 3.5 hours if your ISP is good). The quality was much worse than what we're used to now though.
- steve1977 2y ago700 MB with 56K would be closer to something like 30 hours. But yeah, doable.
- sho 2y agoI was lucky to have symmetric 512KB/sec from about 1997 on, but even before that the most dedicated sort of nerd could definitely download ~700MB movies over 56K with some effort..
- steve1977 2y agook that is pretty fast for that time (I assume it’s kbps, not kBps), I still remember feeling like on a highway when I got my 128 kbps with ISDN