Me, playing Age of Empires, blissfully unaware that some shmuck with DSL completely obliterated my settlement 45 seconds ago and my dialup connection just hasn’t caught up yet.
Press resume after she finishes?
You know that bastard is already corrupted. When the connection is cut off dirty like that, there is no salvaging it.
Didn’t Napster have chunk checksums similar to BitTorrent? I think at least emule did.
Napster did, yep.
Original Napster didn’t support resume, so if it failed you started again. Later Napster-likes supported resuming files.
Memory fails me, but I want to say that the idea of a re-download finding the end of file and resuming went back even further in history (Zmodem I think was my first exposure to it). The creation of such a miracle was game changing for the very reason OP mentions, along with other interruptions.
I don’t think people nowadays can comprehend how basic the OG Napster was. You searched for a file and every single person with a matching file would come up as a separate result. When you downloaded you downloaded only from that one person and if they cancelled it or whatever before it finished then it was gone and you had to start again. You couldn’t resume, not even from the same person with the exact same file.
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.
The summer after my parents divorced I spent many nights in the corner of the now-empty house with one bar of wifi from my friends house with like 10 tabs of anime loading on an old Dell laptop I only made usable by installing Linux mint.
Good times? Idk, memorable tho for sure
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.
Beethoven’s fifth symphony FLAC
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When you have dial up you quickly realize you need a download manager that can resume downloads
Maybe I was just unaware, but download managers only came a little down the pike. For a while it was just “Big file? Good luck!”. And there was something exciting about it.
Back in the 80s I ran my own homebrew BBS for a couple years. A second phone line then was only $9 more a month, so I got one for the computer so phone use wouldn’t be an issue. My roomies and I thought we were livin’ the life.
When I was really young, I was blown away the first time i met someone with their own phone line for internet lmao.
I remember you! Has that acne cleared up?
DSL was such a game changer for so many reasons.
Not the least of which was that you could be online while someone was using the phone.
Shortly after, we completely stopped using phones.
We stopped using landlines.
Phones are everywhere. I mean, they’re rarely used to talk to people like a landline would be, but they’re still everywhere.
Now we use handheld supercomputer/camcorder/communicators.
but napster was p2p, wasn’t? the download could be completed later on
my fav was bouncing people from the system (bbs) using the call-waiting blip during text-based mud PVP fights… and if you really pissed someone off they would just physically cut your phone line.
Oh man, I forgot about MUDs until reading your post. What a throwback to a simpler time. I was hooked on one that sounded like a spider - Arachnea or something.
Probably Achaea, that’s an Iron Realms game, good choice. I haven’t played a lot of MUDs but Iron Realms made the better ones that I have played. I liked Starmourn quite a lot but it seems not many other people did because it’s gone legacy mode now.
Achaea is still up and running if you want to go log in again.
I remember dropping Koreans from Diablo 2 by filling the text box with periods. I may have watched some friends ruin some hard-core players days in pvp.
I am exactly “I miss MUDding” years old
Discworld MUD still is pretty active the last I logged in, probably three or four years ago.
I was the main builder for one called Lost Prophecy. I was obsessed. I easily wrote a few novels of words for descriptions of rooms, items, mobs, and their stats and programming.
I asked the guy who ran it after it was totally dead many years ago if we could release all my work publicly for other people to enjoy on still-active MUDs. He said no. Makes me sad to this day.
That is sad, but unsurprising. MUD owners were a special breed of cat. I really enjoyed Avatar, the admin there was legendarily unapproachable.
Special breed of cat indeed. Admins were generally awful. I never even got so much as a thanks for all the work I put in.
Not that I’m not weird as fuck for spending incredible amounts of time in my early teens doing all that on a tiny MUD. When MUDs had already become a niche interest.
Technically also, https://www.sdf.org
You fight dirty
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.
It’s still “broadband” by those standards. For most people that was dsl and something in the 0.5-5 Mbps range. Like 3g speeds essentially. Average family wasn’t even getting 4g speeds at home until late 2000s.
4kb/sec
This tweet was from yesterday at 8:50pm.
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’m so thankful cable internet was the first kind I ever knew, around 1998.
The way I discovered Team Fortress, the original mod for Quake, was because I just happened to join a server running TF and had to spend all day downloading the files from the server on a 28.8k modem so I could play on it, and when I finally got to play, I was greeted with a super racist map called Cross the Border where one team had to reach a goal point on the other side of a giant wall, another team was trying to stop them, and a 3rd team that could only spawn as snipers in two small towers on the wall whose goal I don’t even remember.
I was extremely confused but God damn was it fun.
Rascism aside that sounds like a fun game mode to play.
Just call it invasion and make it generic.
Really what made it racist were the team names:
Immigrants vs Border Patrol vs CIA
This is basically what happened to Poland.
