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A thousand years, lost in the blink of an eye (quokk.au)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/90s_memes
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[–] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

that wasn't even a guarantee in my day. a lot of webservers didn't support resume.

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  • [–] 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.

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  • [–] 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.

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