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Valve's DRM was inspired by an exec's nephew, who 'used a $500 check I'd sent him for school expenses and bought himself a CD-ROM replicator… he sent me a lovely thank you note' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] 5 points 2 years ago (6 children)

If you don't mind me asking, were you on dial up, DSL, or coax?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    IIRC, we first got DSL when I was just leaving junior high. Or maybe when I was a sophomore. I really don't remember when, but when I was doing most of this downloading, it was on DSL. When we still had dialup, I couldn't even reliably play UO all weekend (first-world problems, AMR?), because we only had 1 phone line and someone would eventually need the phone.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yeah, downloading on 56k was not fun. My average per song was 1 hour, which I thought was decent considering it was free. My house got an additional line just for internet.

    We eventually got a coax modem, I was at high school at the time when we went high speed too. I felt like I was in the future. Lol.

    What I missed was losing access to AOL sites though but now that I look back, those were kinda trash.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oof. I'm guessing your modem wasn't actually connecting at 56k then. Or anywhere near it. I was able to get a 3-5 megabyte mp3 in about 12-20 mins max using my dial up service. This is using Napster.

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