Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒I still adore this screenshot.
Also, some interesting @thunderbird trivia: In 2004, blazing fast internet access wasn't nearly as widespread as it is now, so Mozilla offered to send installation CD-ROMs to users for $5.95.
Kevin RussellInternet access was" limited" by bandwidth, 56k is slow compared to 300 meg download speeds.
Connections could also go sideways, ruining a 600Meg download that took 2 hours, only to be useless.
Manawyrm | Sarah@kevinrns @killyourfm @thunderbird and was billed by the minute! so that download cost real money and that failed attempt was expensive and annoying!
@manawyrm I still have vivid, painful memories of "huge" failed downloads back in the day. I totally forgot that some ISPs billed by the minute!
@killyourfm over here, your ISP _and_ your phone provider billed by the minute :<
that was annoying. quickly got the first download manager tools that could resume downloads.
edonkey was also pretty nice (well, mostly for illicit stuff) but the download mechanism was pretty robust and could resume/survive a broken connection.
yeah, that first 768kBit/s line (much later) was a real win!
@manawyrm I was over here using Limewire and Kazaa like a peasant. 😂
@killyourfm i still have a t-shirt with the donkey here somewhere 😹
it's very, very worn down after all these years :D
it's very, very worn down after all these years :D