• @GenesisJones
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        231 year ago

        Hey are you off the phone??? I wanna get online!!!

        -Shouted from a different floor where the PC was

        • @HeyThisIsntTheYMCA
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          41 year ago

          Hey get off the phone I want to look at saucy pictures of, um, shut up it’s my gravy magazine okay

    • Flying SquidOPM
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      261 year ago

      Although it sucked so much if you were downloading something like a large (for the time) game and had call waiting or someone picked up a phone in another part of the house. 3 hours down the drain.

      • @fox2263
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        341 year ago

        Download Managers were a god send for that reason.

        • Flying SquidOPM
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          271 year ago

          Definitely, but there was a time before them. A dark and evil time when your world could be destroyed by a guy calling to sell gutter cleaning services.

          • @fox2263
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            271 year ago

            Or your mam deciding to call her sister for 3 hours even though she just saw her.

            It took a very long time to get counter strike

        • @demonquark
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          71 year ago

          Holy shit. I completely forgot about download managers.

          • @fox2263
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            51 year ago

            I had one, I forget its name, but it was a firewall AND download manager. Bizarre combo if you ask me but it was pretty cool. Its logo was a lightning bolt I think.

      • @RampantParanoia2365
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        1 year ago

        Second house line was a game changer. Literally. It let me play Quake online.