The good old days of a 300 bps model that used your phone

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Jun 6, 2019
11:36:14am

CougarVeteran All-American

Moving up to 1200 bps was so fast! And so great when you could plug your modem directly into the phone jack.

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Originally posted on Jun 6, 2019 at 11:36:14am

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On a related note, I was thinking about internet speeds and remembered this:

Ragnar Danneskjold Thought Leader

6/6/19 8:42am

Ah, those were the days.

mightybrick

6/6/19 8:45am

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Buffalo

6/6/19 8:45am

They still do that on SoulSeek

scootsy

6/6/19 8:46am

Ahh... the glory days

scootsy

6/6/19 8:46am

Did any of you ever use Limewire back in the day?

Dakota Cougar

6/6/19 8:47am

Of course! I use to be so innocent (well, aside from the thieving). Piracy has come a long ways though!

scootsy

6/6/19 8:48am

Yup. That was a dumpster fire.

Ragnar Danneskjold

6/6/19 9:06am

Morpheus was pretty good

Huge Manatee

6/6/19 9:02am

Bear share showed national flags of the up / downloaders which was a nice touch.

Kauai

6/6/19 11:12am

I thank my torrent client for being able to identify all of the flags.

scootsy

6/6/19 11:25am

Downloading games off Bulletin Boards was medieval. Wolfenstein 3D baby!

Kauai

6/6/19 11:11am

The good old days of a 300 bps model that used your phone

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