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polio king
Jun 19, 2004

OctoberBlues posted:

Man, I remember when CD burners were first released, we had a giant external one and I thought it was so awesome to be able to make my own CDs. Even though it took like 20 minutes to download a song and about half an hour to burn a CD, so total time for one CD of downloaded songs was like 5 1/2 hours.

yeah I remember that too. they were something dumb like 1-2x speed.

some things that I can recall off the top of my head:
QuakeWorld https://web.archive.org/web/19971210063857/http://www.quakeworld.net/

Kali, Quakespy that eventually evolved into Gamespy

realplayer

AOL/Prodigy

Geocities/Tripod/Xoom/Angelfire

irc/alt newsgroups/bbs

winnuke/teardrop

dialup noise is still burned into my brain

the "ate my balls" theme

icq - mirabilis

guestbooks

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