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Well it's nice to think it's at least half way done by now.
Well it's nice to think it's at least half way done by now.
After all these years it probably will have a little flop to it.but will it fit on a floppy disk?
What makes you think I'm nostalgic for that?
It's a dystopic fantasy though and a badly doctored image. 180MB at that thruput would take about 110 hours. Back in the day, I did downloads that size from time to time and a few were a bit larger. Download managers were key.What makes you think I'm nostalgic for that?
Living at the bottom of the South Pacific, it wasn't a fantasy for me. My first internet connection got 200 b/s on a good day. Any download larger than a couple of megabytes was guaranteed to fail at some point. I routinely browsed with images turned off, and if I needed to see one I'd start it loading and go to make coffee and a snack.It's a dystopic fantasy though and a badly doctored image. 180MB at that thruput would take about 110 hours. Back in the day, I did downloads that size from time to time and a few were a bit larger. Download managers were key.
Kind of evil but I'm sure the guy deserved it. Although I cringe at opening the drive door during a read operation since that could occasionally be catastrophic for the contents of the disk. A safer way of screwing with the guy, at least if you cared about what was on the disk at all, would have been picking up the phone on the modem line and hanging up hard. It would have either caused a serious case of line noise for a few seconds or knocked the guy offline.Hehe. I may have already told this story but a friend of mine ran a C64 warez bbs back in the day. I hated on of the guys on the site. My friend was a constant procrastinator so made sure he got to school on time each day. I'd go over in the morning and make him get ready. Well above mentioned asshat used to like to download files right before going to school. I'd wait until he was well into the download and open and close the drive door. One bad bit in all of those successful bits was enough to guarantee a failed download. It's the small bits of revenge I enjoyed.
I got banned from a Debian mirror once by inadvertently rsyncing the whole thing. I woke up to 18GB of a disk filled with "Why the f- have I got SPARC and Alpha binaries"?It's a dystopic fantasy though and a badly doctored image. 180MB at that thruput would take about 110 hours. Back in the day, I did downloads that size from time to time and a few were a bit larger. Download managers were key.
I never logged on to AOL. I'm pretty sure I still have a disc though..I’m always nostalgic about AOL, for no other reason than that’s how I met my wife.
Back in the day AOL was great for meeting women. A buddy told me in 1997, "It's the only thing this f-ing box (a PC) is good for."I remember when it was $7.99 a month. The most fun I had wasn’t really surfing the web, it was talking on the AOL forums. It was kind of like the Wild West of forums. They had moderators but I don’t know if they were paid employees or not. They would come in at random and check everything out and move on.
Ugh. I worked for a kiwi ISP for a while and every time someone called up and said they wanted to use the AOL offer for free hours that arrived in the mail, I knew the conversation was going to get ugly real fast.I’m always nostalgic about AOL, for no other reason than that’s how I met my wife.
Thanks for the heads up. Pre-ordered a copy. :-)
Jesus! Flashbacks of everybody having Spice Girls pencil cases, school bags, swimming gear, songs on endless repeat in every shop and "Which Spice Girl do you fancy?" debates.
I was in college during the craze and aside from the occasional reference I barely noticed it was a thing. Britney Spears had more impact on me because a friend's daughter was heavily into her and couldn't pass through a room without chattering about Briteny Spears or vampire novels.Jesus! Flashbacks of everybody having Spice Girls pencil cases, school bags, swimming gear, songs on endless repeat in every shop and "Which Spice Girl do you fancy?" debates.
Yeah them, Robbie Williams and B*Witched, who also formed part of the "Who do you fancy?" wars, were basically gods.lol, I imagine you guys had it worse on that side of the pond.
Yeah them, Robbie Williams and B*Witched, who also formed part of the "Who do you fancy?" wars, were basically gods.
The examples off the top of my head:It makes me curious what things were big here that never made it over there.
The examples off the top of my head:
Seinfeld. I mean it was on TV but nobody really watched it. This is the big one, as even today most don't understand the humour.
Cheers.
Twin Peaks.
Ellen
3rd Rock from the Sun
Everybody loves Raymond
There are some shows that had more success relatively over here I think, like Freaks and Geeks.
Most pop music acts made it over I'd say.
Anything not directly pop music or TV probably not.
They are products of their time. I'm curious what sitcoms will look like in the streaming era.I didn't understand the appeal of most of those shows myself (except Twin Peaks. Twin Peaks is love, Twin Peaks is life - but that's one I was surprised of it's popularity here). Sitcoms I find, on the whole, to be aimed at a very specific and lowest common denominator audience of a distinct culture with no crossover. Like, I watched two episodes maybe of Everybody Loves Raymond and I thought it was just godawful and miserable. But then I thought the same about the British sitcom from that era "My Hero". There's some cultural elements in both that just don't translate outsidde of some specific target demographic.
They are products of their time. I'm curious what sitcoms will look like in the streaming era.
Twin Peaks was very simple in that unfortunately it was judged too expensive to licence or something. My Dad loves it, I've always meant to watch it.except Twin Peaks. Twin Peaks is love, Twin Peaks is life
Oh, you should definitely watch Twin Peaks ASAP - I think particularly with your tastes in folklore you'd love it. The mythology of the series draws upon the Seelie and Unseelie Courts, reinterpreted in a very dark and modern way. I personally would say it is the second best TV show ever made, after The Prisoner (and bears some resemblance in tone to that classic).Twin Peaks was very simple in that unfortunately it was judged to expensive to licence or something. My Dad loves it, I've always meant to watch it.
Yeah I agree on the sitcom thing. It's pretty much the same with soaps. Things like Dallas and so on weren't too big, being replaced by stuff like Coronation Street. I think it's for the same reasons you mentioned.
Wait, are you saying Britney Spears is a vampire?Briteny Spears or vampire novels.
Twin Peaks was very good up until the end of the Who killed Laura Palmer story arc, but then got buggered up by studio politics. You can get it on DVD or Blu Ray as a boxed set and it's good enough to be worth doing that.The examples off the top of my head:
Seinfeld. I mean it was on TV but nobody really watched it. This is the big one, as even today most don't understand the humour.
Cheers.
Twin Peaks.
Ellen
3rd Rock from the Sun
Everybody loves Raymond
There are some shows that had more success relatively over here I think, like Freaks and Geeks.
Most pop music acts made it over I'd say.
Anything not directly pop music or TV probably not.