Setting up your computer before you go to bed to download a demo for a game that’s… 20 MB large! Waking up in the morning to inevitably discover the download failed part way through.
Waiting for a single image to load on the screen from top to bottom, one line at a time and being charged per minute for the privilege.
I remember using a program called Go!Zilla to accellerate and manage my downloads, you could even pause downloads!
This think that was basically a P2P downloader.
Kids three days won’t get to experience par files
I mean change mb to gb and it’s the same story today.
Remember download managers?
Where my download accelerator plus gang at
What a blast from the past! Totally forgot that these were a thing lol.
Getright was my choice for years, until it decided to scrap an entire 600MB iso I had downloaded over 56k, and start over. Getright pissing me off was thebmain reason why I got pretty good at perl 25 years ago - I decided to write my own download manager.
Sounds like a villain origin story
I’m not denying anything
sometimes I still have to do this, sure not for something that’s only 20mb but a 1gb file can take a whole night to download in my uni accommodation. The landlord doesn’t seem to give a shit though because they’re still advertising that the building has “up to 100mb/s” wifi speeds.
1kB/h is still “up to 100mb/s” so he’s not wrong.
Not as extreme, but I still remember downloading GTA 5 for 16h, that was some shit internet
I’d say it’s as extreme
