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aramis87 ,

omg, speed, why has no one said 'speed' yet? An hour-long tv show was 350mb, and it took three days to download.

some_guy , (edited )

Agreed. I can now download a multi-terabyte file in a matter of minutes or even less.

BeigeAgenda ,
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Wow multi-terabyte in minutes! There are not many ISPs delivering 100Gbps and even fewer are delivering 1000Gbps.

Unless you live on top of a data center.

some_guy ,

Whoops typing while walking through a lobby and obviously had a brain bork. My mistake. GB.

SauceBossSmokin ,

Usenet Newsgroups were a big part of my life back then. Games, MP3s, Software, Movies, TV shows. So many Xbox games that I burned to DVD and loaded onto my modded Xbox. Those were the days. Now I only torrent some movies and TV shows thru a VPN and pay for everything else. My time is worth a lot more to me now than back in the late 90s/early 2000s.

LarkinDePark ,

I’d bring back my favourite website from the time:

imaginers.com/iw

Started me on a career, with Macromedia’s product line.

billwashere ,

Ease of grabbing content. There are so many tools that make it too easy and automated. I mean this has changed drastically in the last 10 years let alone 90s.

rainynight65 ,

I had lots of time to play games, but not a lot of money to buy games.

Now it’s the other way round.

If I could bring back anything from back then, it’s boxed PC games that can be resold and traded. Covered a lot of my gaming needs from second hand shops.

Glide ,

It might be boring and obvious, but the speeds.

I used to have to plan ahead, set overnight downloads, very consciously and actively manage data rates and in general never plan around getting something. Today, I can get basically ANYTHING in less than an hour on FiOp. Most things, 5-10 minutes. Transfer rate has outscaled data size, and it’s fantastic.

SkaveRat ,

Downloading a movie only to find out it was actually porn.

Or the other way around.

leisesprecher ,

And a whole lot of content that I frankly would have preferred not to have seen.

When you’re 12 and your parents have no idea what you’re doing, you’ll end up in very dark corners.

sexual_tomato ,

Downloading a movie only to find it was the pain Olympics or a cartel/terrorist beheading was also fun

DeltaTangoLima ,
@DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com avatar

A lot less VCDs and MP3s downloaded from FTP servers and BBSes.

Not sure if I’d bring it back, but I sure do miss the fun of playing Quake against my mates on public servers.

boaratio ,

I used to pirate because I was poor back then. Now that I make a decent living I’m more than happy to pay devs for their hard work.

taiyang ,

yourpiratedmovie.exe

Thanks, Limewire!

eezeebee ,
@eezeebee@lemmy.ca avatar

You can get an entire album or discography now. Back then I remember getting random loose mp3s of artists I was interested in, dictated by how many seeds happened to be online. Not sure I would bring that back, but it did make for some deep cuts becoming my favourite songs and not just the well known “hits” from albums.

The most dramatic change is probably how easy it is to hear any of that music in a legit way, and hear it instantly.

MrsDoyle ,

There was this Russian website where you could download whole albums for like 50 cents. I absolutely loved it, because as well as current hits it also had the most obscure, crazy stuff, classical music, jazz, and world music. I think they’re all in prison now, the guys who ran it.

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