▲ 718 ▼ A thousand years, lost in the blink of an eye (quokk.au) submitted 11 months ago by Deceptichum to c/90s_memes 55 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] umbrella@lemmy.ml 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] tauisgod@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (1 child) GetRight ftw. I just googled it and it's still a thing. Now, burning CDs at 2x speed on windows 98 was a chore. Converting a whole disc with of mp3's and not breathing on your computer for 40 minutes so it didn't freeze and ruin an expensive CDR sucked. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [+] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] davidagain@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago I use Filezilla these days. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies) [–] waggz@programming.dev 5 points 11 months ago (2 children) that wasn't even a guarantee in my day. a lot of webservers didn't support resume. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 11 months ago (1 child) Is resume just client/server support for byte serving requests? Pretty sure that was around with HTTP/1.1 in the late 90s, but my memory of it was client support in Netscape for downloads wasn't really there, so most people probably never used it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] waggz@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago idk the technical specifics on it but standards were mostly loosely followed suggestions back then. i still run in to issues today with some downloads not even knowing the total size. i just remember being on dial up and hoping if i let it go all night i wouldn't have to start anew in the morning. permalink fedilink source parent [–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago And concurrency. Pulling a mean 30k/s on that v90 modem. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tauisgod@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (1 child) GetRight ftw. I just googled it and it's still a thing. Now, burning CDs at 2x speed on windows 98 was a chore. Converting a whole disc with of mp3's and not breathing on your computer for 40 minutes so it didn't freeze and ruin an expensive CDR sucked. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [+] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] davidagain@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago I use Filezilla these days. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies)
[+] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] davidagain@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago I use Filezilla these days. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago I use Filezilla these days. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] waggz@programming.dev 5 points 11 months ago (2 children) that wasn't even a guarantee in my day. a lot of webservers didn't support resume. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 11 months ago (1 child) Is resume just client/server support for byte serving requests? Pretty sure that was around with HTTP/1.1 in the late 90s, but my memory of it was client support in Netscape for downloads wasn't really there, so most people probably never used it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] waggz@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago idk the technical specifics on it but standards were mostly loosely followed suggestions back then. i still run in to issues today with some downloads not even knowing the total size. i just remember being on dial up and hoping if i let it go all night i wouldn't have to start anew in the morning. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 11 months ago (1 child) Is resume just client/server support for byte serving requests? Pretty sure that was around with HTTP/1.1 in the late 90s, but my memory of it was client support in Netscape for downloads wasn't really there, so most people probably never used it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] waggz@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago idk the technical specifics on it but standards were mostly loosely followed suggestions back then. i still run in to issues today with some downloads not even knowing the total size. i just remember being on dial up and hoping if i let it go all night i wouldn't have to start anew in the morning. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] waggz@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago idk the technical specifics on it but standards were mostly loosely followed suggestions back then. i still run in to issues today with some downloads not even knowing the total size. i just remember being on dial up and hoping if i let it go all night i wouldn't have to start anew in the morning. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago And concurrency. Pulling a mean 30k/s on that v90 modem. permalink fedilink source parent
