Oh that Christmas Sears catalog…so many pages
Trying to tape a song off the radio without getting too much of the DJ’s voice…
Then you listen to your recording enough that the D.J.'s voice at the end becomes a part of the song in your mind and it feels incomplete when you hear it without.
I still remember when my brother called our radio station to see if they had the new Megadeth album that hadn’t been released yet. On our tape, we got the DJ saying “And here’s some new Megadeth for you off their new album Cryptic Writings. We’re not even supposed to be playing this yet!”
In my mind, that’s just part of the song now.
35 minutes? That’s child’s play. I used to queue up 2-3 songs in the morning on
LimewireNapster and hope they’d be finished downloading by the time I got home from work. Half the time there was still a couple hours left for the last song.Man im old but i remember as a preteen i used limewire and morpheus to download songs much faster then you depict.
Even over dial-up it was a matter of minutes. Like y’all were downloading mp3s and not WAVs, right?
Probably about 9 minutes for an average song over a 56 kbps connection, without disconnects or hangs. Unfortunately it rarely stayed connected without hangs and stutters, so it ended up taking a lot longer than the math suggests it should. I didn’t have a good computer though, nor good Internet. I was using some bargain basement eMachines computer. It wasn’t until a few years later that I built my first PC. If you didn’t disable automatic updates on Windows or other programs, then those downloads could end up hogging 90% of your bandwidth for the entire time you were away.
How shit does the computer have to be where the machine’s performance itself is a factor in p2p torrenting? Like, if it can run Limewire, it should be fast enough where the only relevant bottleneck is the pipe to the internet.
Internet speed and reliability of both host and client are a factor though; downloading something rare where there’s only like one guy in Burundi seeding it could take centuries.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softmodem
Softmodems were painfully CPU intensive vs a hardware/controller-based modems. A slow Celeron proc, as found in most eMachines of the time, was already chugging to keep 98/Me going with everything else.
Sears Catalogs? What sort of sick shit is this?
National Geographics is what you were supposed to jerk off to. All those naked ladies in tropical countries…
And it was okay, because it was educational!
Zoomers don’t realize we grew up when bullying was acceptable.
It still is acceptable. It’s just that today they call it management and human resources.
And GOP politics.
Those also existed back then, in addition to actual IRL bullying well into adulthood. You either learned how to fight, and got into a few, or you were subjected to relentless bullying throughout your life.
Their bullying is way more intrusive and emotionally damaging. We never SWATted each other or to use an app to anonymously and constantly message each other to kill yourself
I jerked off to this https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/0/3/4/777034_320x180.jpg Gen-Z wouldn’t even understand what this is.
Once when some friends and I had a hotel room to ourselves while their dad and his GF had a different room, I discovered that if you switched to the ppv channel and quickly started toggling the volume either up or down and continued doing this for 15-30 seconds, the channel would not scramble for about 5 minutes. You could then switch away and back and do the volume thing again.
I learned in my late teens that the channels were scrambled by a little filter in the cable line at the main connector box on the street. So I removed mine, and then charged other people to unblock their cable. I subsidized my beer money for a while by going to people’s houses, breaking into their cable boxes, and removing their filters. In my early 20’s I managed to get my hands on some of the tags that the cable companies put on your cable line when it’s supposed to be connected, and some black boxes, and then I charged people to hook up their free cable. It was a pretty rad gig for a while.
Ehh why would I continue watching it for 4 more minutes
