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The early days of downloading were a fun time

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[–] platypus_plumba 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Still remember my father's face when he realized I was sharing all his personal documents with Limewire.

My internet was so slow that I was tweaking all the settings and doing pattern analysis on bandwidth traffic with nonsense tweaks. So I probably tweaked that setting and felt the internet was 10kbps faster.

I also recall placing the modem under a blanket because I thought the internet was faster when the modem was warmer. My father's face when he saw the modem had melted... and the flabbergasted repair technicians theorizing that our house was probably hit by a thunder and it caught fire somehow. Little did they know.

I was just a desperate kid willing to try anything to be able to download 1 song per day.