Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoThe World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Oldtorrentfreak.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1196arrow-down13cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.mlaiop@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.worldpiracy@zerobytes.monsterpiracy@lemmit.onlinehackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanshackernews@derp.foo
arrow-up1193arrow-down1external-linkThe World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Oldtorrentfreak.comFlying Squid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square15fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.mlaiop@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.worldpiracy@zerobytes.monsterpiracy@lemmit.onlinehackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanshackernews@derp.foo
minus-squarebfg9k@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoYou forget how long sites took to load over 33.6k, and how limited your options were for email before Gmail became popular. Free email plans were measured in megabytes, and you could only send like 200k worth of attachments per message.
minus-squaredeleted@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoThe bottleneck was your internet speed back then, now it’s your CPU.
You forget how long sites took to load over 33.6k, and how limited your options were for email before Gmail became popular. Free email plans were measured in megabytes, and you could only send like 200k worth of attachments per message.
The bottleneck was your internet speed back then, now it’s your CPU.