Is this an old tweet? Like dialup was still used but not nearly as common only 15 years ago
this post was submitted on 26 Dec 2024
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but napster was p2p, wasn't? the download could be completed later on
I lived through that, I don’t know why it took 17 hours. It’d take half an hour on a bad day for an MP3 song and there wasn’t really anything else on Napster. I’ve never heard of anyone having audiobooks on there or anything, and it didn’t do movies.
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Wait, you didn't have to manually unplug the modem and plug in the telephone to use it?
Most if not all modems have an in and out port on the back so you can plug a phone through it. But most likely in this situation, the house has a split in the phone line so that you could have multiple phones in different rooms.
So the op was in the office with the computer and the mom was in the kitchen trying to call someone else.
I remember that Kazaa would BSoD my computer if it was on for a while and somebody would use the computer. I was downloading Ghost in the Shell for half a day and then my sibling used the computer and it crashed. Got so fucking mad. I had to lock the computer everytime I wanted to download a movie. Later I learned that one of the memory modules was busted. Couldn’t do shit about it since the warranty was expired and I was a dead broke teenager who didn’t want to work. Back then bad RAM was way more common than it is today. For almost every new PC I got back then I had to RMA a module.