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supafastcoder 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years...

I remember burning CD's full of 1 minute songs that never completed because someone was always calling our house line, disrupting the internet connection (and there were no resumable downloads). Good times ;)

asveikau 3 months ago [–]

Where did you get those from?

By the p2p era (which napster was) they absolutely needed to do resumable downloads because a peer could suddenly go offline.

Before that I remember getting mp3s from ftp and irc fserves... Ftp definitely had resume, though not all clients and servers did it.

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