Remember when it took 10 minutes to DL a song?

I remember when it took a whole hour and a half to drive to the record store, look around, pay for it and drive home again...
 
My first modem was 300 baud. I remember logging onto compuserve and getting all excited when I downloaded my first picture. It took a few minutes, but it was worth it.

It was also nothing but ascii art. :)
 
Just dled the Mac OSX update 99MB - Dowload time One minute 30. The Apple updates I find are pretty fast though in comparison to day to day dls.
 
You wanna cry, ask mikko Wilson how fast he DL stuff. kid gets like 30MBps .... ITs nutz. (yes 30 MEGABYTES)
 
Back in my day, I had an Apple IIGS with a...oh, never mind. Now where did I leave that dual tape deck with auto reverse, high-speed dubbing and Dolby C NR?
 
Yeah, it was my school's connection late in the evening. There are no residences on campus, so I had the whole connection to myself.

- Mikko
 
In STL the "blazing highspeed internet" is 3mb... is that annoying or what? You can't get a faster connection here. We get direct mailer advertising for Centurytel highspeed internet... "switch to our highspeed 256k for... blah-blah-blah"...

Apparently STL really IS fly-over country.
 
I remember when you have to have very expensive software, special order dial-up modems, and dedicated POTS phone lines, and there was no such thing as the Internet, and ARPAnet was strickly limited to 4 or 5 Universities and the military. That was a PITA to deal with. Then, I guess I'm showing my age...
 
Mom, it's broken
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I remember storing data on casset tapes and a small portabel casset deck. It took forever to load a small program and if something interupted the upload you had to start over again.
 
retaf99 said:
I remember storing data on casset tapes and a small portabel casset deck. It took forever to load a small program and if something interupted the upload you had to start over again.
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Honest Injun, and as an Indian, I really do mean honest.

In my IT Engineering career, go back to Big Blue. You did trouble shooting with a volt meter. You repaired parts with a soldering iron and resisters and transducers and such. A disk the size of a garbage can lid, but the weight of a set of Olympic sized weights, only held 5MB of data, and only the richest of the rich could afford that 5MB of storage.

Cassettes? On computers? What computers, what cassettes? There were no cassettes back then. We were listening to vinyl.

Ok, I'm an old f@&*, I'l bow out, let you kids ***** about being spoiled as all get out.
 
My first semester in college I took a "Business Information" class. Keypunch cards, and it was a state of the art computer. Yeah, totally forgot about keypunch cards! And those HUGE reels of data tape on machines that were so loud the room had to be sound proofed!
 
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