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barkingcat on Feb 8, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: The web sucks if you have a slow connection

3 hours is so low in the grand scheme of things. It used to take 3 hours to download a jpg over dialup ...

72deluxe on Feb 8, 2017 [–]

I used to rely on PC Plus and cover CDs for all of my software needs. I remember needing Qt for Linux (it was all new to me) and spending hours downloading a 16MB file, only to be grabbing the non-devel RPM.

We take file sizes for granted these days.

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