• Poop@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    The real ancient trials were on the 1990s warez sites where you’d have to hunt for a 2 pixel square link on a giant page of porn ads and other trickery. Then you could get part 42 of 78 of a .rar for some game. Repeat another 77 times and wait a week for it to download on 33.6k and you got a free game!

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      11 months ago

      And using flash get to manage your shitty download speed to resume disconnections and multithreading the 5 kbps stream to max out your download.

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        11 months ago

        How did I forget about the crazy download managers! Nice one