• Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Zoomers don’t realize we grew up when bullying was acceptable.

  • TIN@feddit.ukEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Trying to tape a song off the radio without getting too much of the DJ’s voice…

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Then you listen to your recording enough that the D.J.'s voice at the end becomes a part of the song in your mind and it feels incomplete when you hear it without.

      • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        6 months ago

        I still remember when my brother called our radio station to see if they had the new Megadeth album that hadn’t been released yet. On our tape, we got the DJ saying “And here’s some new Megadeth for you off their new album Cryptic Writings. We’re not even supposed to be playing this yet!”

        In my mind, that’s just part of the song now.

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    35 minutes? That’s child’s play. I used to queue up 2-3 songs in the morning on Limewire Napster and hope they’d be finished downloading by the time I got home from work. Half the time there was still a couple hours left for the last song.

    • Breezy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Man im old but i remember as a preteen i used limewire and morpheus to download songs much faster then you depict.

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          6 months ago

          Probably about 9 minutes for an average song over a 56 kbps connection, without disconnects or hangs. Unfortunately it rarely stayed connected without hangs and stutters, so it ended up taking a lot longer than the math suggests it should. I didn’t have a good computer though, nor good Internet. I was using some bargain basement eMachines computer. It wasn’t until a few years later that I built my first PC. If you didn’t disable automatic updates on Windows or other programs, then those downloads could end up hogging 90% of your bandwidth for the entire time you were away.

          • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            6 months ago

            How shit does the computer have to be where the machine’s performance itself is a factor in p2p torrenting? Like, if it can run Limewire, it should be fast enough where the only relevant bottleneck is the pipe to the internet.

            Internet speed and reliability of both host and client are a factor though; downloading something rare where there’s only like one guy in Burundi seeding it could take centuries.

    • friend_of_satan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Once when some friends and I had a hotel room to ourselves while their dad and his GF had a different room, I discovered that if you switched to the ppv channel and quickly started toggling the volume either up or down and continued doing this for 15-30 seconds, the channel would not scramble for about 5 minutes. You could then switch away and back and do the volume thing again.