Are people not downloading huge torrents anymore?? How is downloading some large thing overnight a rare occurrence of bygone eras????
My only guess is that kids these days don’t know about pirating and instead stream everything or download apps?
this post was submitted on 26 Dec 2024
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Anyone remember zmodem with resume? Kermit??
Damn, I'm old.
This is why I was much more into mangas than animes as a teenager. Each anime episode took more than an hour to download... I could at least download mangas faster than I could read them.
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posted around 2018? maybe earlier? surely not recently.
Or did anyone really use dialup in 2009?
Dial-up was still somewhat common to see in rural areas around that time, but I think most people had broadband by the mid 2000s (in the US, at least). Our family got broadband in the suburbs around 2003/2004-ish, and it was pretty new for our area at the time.
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but napster was p2p, wasn't? the download could be completed later on
Is this an old tweet? Like dialup was still used but not nearly as common only 15 years ago
4kb/sec
“Moms”?
Had to delete my comment because I assumed that it was a typo, but it is possible that they had two mothers who both picked up the phone at the same time
lol. This is adorable
How wud two people pick up a phone tho?
landlines were shared within a single household - you could pick up the phone on the headset upstairs, and someone in the kitchen downstairs would already be talking to someone. you'd have to apologize and hang up quickly because you just intruded on their conversation. thus, two people could pick up the phone at the same time. Frankly I think that's giving AngryMan too much credit, I'm convinced they're just an idiot who doesn't review before they post.
Don't forget about party lines, where you could pick up the phone on your neighbors.
Party lines were especially popular in rural areas; Dozens of farmhouses would share a single party line, so farmers could just pick up the phone and chat with whoever happened to be on the phone already. It was a huge source of socialization for people who otherwise would have been almost entirely isolated. Farmhouses often have literal miles in between each house, so socialization was difficult simply due to the distance. Party lines were basically pre-internet Discord servers, and you just shared the server with all of your neighbors.
Many farm houses had two phone lines coming into the house; One private line for personal calls, and a party line for the neighbors.
My mom always talked about the party lines growing up in Florida in the 60s, and how she could never get a call out because "Barbara Snyder talked too much and always tied up the lines" lol. Apparently it was common for one party line per block or something like that. Iirc it wasn't too common to have a private line until much later, as the phone company had to run dedicated lines back to the central office and it didn't always happen until much later.
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Wait, you didn't have to manually unplug the modem and plug in the telephone to use it?
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Who was using dial up 15 years ago (2009)? I grew up in a very rural area and even we got broadband by like 2003 or so. I think someone got their math wrong.
You don't know how old this post is.
The house I grew up in just got a wired connection (fiber) in 2024. We had 3G by 2009 but the data caps and cost made it not ideal. Couldn't even get ISDN.
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