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The ‘90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president (arstechnica.com)
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The ‘90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president::1998 plea for restraint reveals a lost world where the 'Net was an opt-in experience.

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[–] brsrklf@compuverse.uk 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You've unlocked some deeply buried memory there.

I remember I used that not so much to "accelerate" downloads but mostly because it let me download stuff in multiple sessions, instead of trying to do it in my browser and lose everything because of a lost connection.

Hours to download a few MB, interesting times.