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Re:Ask HN: What was it like in the era of BBS before the int... by tifkap on Friday April 03, 2026 @04:38PM (#47631945)
Ascii art porn was easy. It was a drag to download a image, because those files were so big. Downloading a .mp3 file was frought with danger, because those file were a whopping 2mb or more in size. You could never know if you actually managed to download these files. Also: BBS'es had limited capacity in the number of connections. You had to be really econmical in what files you wanted to download. I've had so many files wich i had almost downloadeded, just for the connection to die. It was a pain.

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