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The early internet was so human and genuine. (lemmy.world)

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[–] Zink@programming.dev 20 points 2 days ago (3 children)

There was no better internet than going to college in the late '90s. You go from a 56Kbps modem with hundreds of milliseconds of latency being a GOOD setup, to being directly on a 10Mbps LAN with everybody else in your class. It was right before Napster started and people were sharing entire discographies of MP3s via network file share from their own machines.

[–] thisisnotmyhat@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

Hell yeah. I had OG Xbox live at my postgrad residence. At one point, my flatmate and I were ranked 6 in the world for doubles Top Spin. What a time.

[–] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Had the same experience. You could share tlyour collection, but it had to be password protected. But you also put a text note named password.txr in the parent directory and you in. If you shared without protection, you'd get your network privileges suspended.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

Installing Quake in the file share every morning 'cos it would get wiped at night.
Grades weren't that good that year.