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The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old (torrentfreak.com)
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[–] query 80 points 1 year ago (12 children)

In 2003, the World Wide Web was still in its infancy. Dial-up connections were still the default and YouTube, Facebook, and Gmail had yet to be invented.

I'd argue it had reached its prime. Websites were just websites then, not data harvesting machines.

[–] bfg9k 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You forget how long sites took to load over 33.6k, and how limited your options were for email before Gmail became popular. Free email plans were measured in megabytes, and you could only send like 200k worth of attachments per message.

[–] deleted 3 points 1 year ago

The bottleneck was your internet speed back then, now it’s your CPU.

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