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Re:Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago by dclowd9901 on Saturday June 01, 2024 @01:35PM (#40547617)
We had rural phone lines with lots of noise. I think I got 3kB a sec max on those things even with 56k.
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Re:Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago by skrause on Saturday June 01, 2024 @03:27PM (#40548406)
Most MP3s were 128 kbps back then, so a song would typically be around 3-4 MB. Even at 3 kB per second a download would only take around 20 minutes.
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