An argument could be made that the slower speed of those days had intangible benefits like not dramatically destroying people's attention spans. To work with computers, took long-term commitment and research.
I whole heartedly agree. You don't appreciate a file you download unless you had to wait an hour+ in a torrent program for it to finish, only to find it corrupt, a virus, or a mislabeled file.
Exactly. And you learned really quickly because of those painful lessons how to spot fakes from a 100 miles away.
Or “complete this poll to get the archive’s password”.
Fuck...I forgot about those...
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