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Setting up your computer before you go to bed to download a demo for a game that's... 20 MB large! Waking up in the morning to inevitably discover the download failed part way through.
Remember download managers?
Getright was my choice for years, until it decided to scrap an entire 600MB iso I had downloaded over 56k, and start over. Getright pissing me off was thebmain reason why I got pretty good at perl 25 years ago - I decided to write my own download manager.
Sounds like a villain origin story
I'm not denying anything
Where my download accelerator plus gang at
What a blast from the past! Totally forgot that these were a thing lol.
I remember using a program called Go!Zilla to accellerate and manage my downloads, you could even pause downloads!
This think that was basically a P2P downloader.
"apparently my sister picked up the phooone! Aarrg! $!#@t"
sometimes I still have to do this, sure not for something that's only 20mb but a 1gb file can take a whole night to download in my uni accommodation. The landlord doesn't seem to give a shit though because they're still advertising that the building has "up to 100mb/s" wifi speeds.
1kB/h is still "up to 100mb/s" so he's not wrong.
Waiting for a single image to load on the screen from top to bottom, one line at a time and being charged per minute for the privilege.
Not as extreme, but I still remember downloading GTA 5 for 16h, that was some shit internet
I'd say it's as extreme
I mean change mb to gb and it's the same story today.
Kids three days won't get to experience par files