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Re:Napster: A New Killer Internet App (1999) by obiefernandez on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @08:04AM (#19034675)
Back in 1995 my friend and I ordered a T1 with the intention of starting up a web hosting company. The startup didn't work, but we did end up with blazingly fast (for the time) internet access. I still remember downloading the first version of Netscape and it took just a few seconds. I almost fell out of my chair!

Long story short, things must have been so crazy and disorganized at the vendor (I guess) that even though we never paid a single invoice for the T1, they took over a year to shut us off.

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Re:Napster: A New Killer Internet App (1999) by c22 on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @11:11AM (#19036264)
> I still remember downloading the first version of Netscape and it took just a few seconds. I almost fell out of my chair!

This is still how I feel everytime I download a large file in seconds. I guess I spent so long accessing the internet over dialup this rapid (and relatively recent) explosion of speed at the edges is truly impressive. It's a little ironic that our most popular protocols and services these days reject p2p so thoroughly.

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