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View submission: Did you use Napster?
Born in 78.
I was in rarified air. I was with my future ex-wife in a dorm room that had a T1 connection, comparable in speed to high speed internet today.
She had a laptop with 4gb of storage. We'd log on and find other people with similar high speed connections and look at their libraries. Then it was just a constant downloading/wiping of her 4gb hard drive, about 80 albums worth.
What's crazy is in hindsight, that setup is remarkably similar to what spotify offers... "hey, I want to hear that album, is anyone have it?" *downloads it 1 minute later*
Comment by cgoldberg at 26/01/2025 at 06:15 UTC
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I get what you are saying, but a T1 line maxes out at 1.544 Mbps... So most high speed internet users these days are downloading like 100x-500x faster!
But yea, T1 was badass in it's day. I used to work in a large office sharing a T1 with like 30-40 people and thought it was lightning compared to dialup.