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whit @whit9/11/2023, 2:18 PM

michael @lutz

michael @lutz9/10/2023, 8:05 PM

i just remembered one time in the 2000s when some pop culture website i read was like "watch this Batman fan film. trust us" and there was a hyperlink to a file download for what i believe was a QuickTime mov, which for you post-youtube readers was basically the highest quality video you could get back then that wasn't also super huge in terms of file size, but also, it was still very huge in file size compared to anything that was usually way smaller and looked way shittier. anyway the point is i guess i trusted these writers or was intrigued enough by the mystery that i downloaded the file, which took maybe something like an hour even on my DSL connection, and then settled in to watch. lo and behold, it's a 10-minute live action short, admittedly very slickly produced, about Batman fighting the fucking Predator, a premise i find so bafflingly pointless to consider that i think then and there i turned against the nerd industrial complex for the rest of my days

izzy kestrel @iznaut9/10/2023, 10:40 PM

what’s the longest y’all have waited for a download on dialup

i remember when Sonic X came out i tied up the phone line for a full 24 hours to torrent the first fansubbed episode (which was like ~300MB)

Cania @Cania9/11/2023, 2:54 AM

i remember attempting to patch Half-Life overnight for 3 nights

and getting disconnected every night. i think it was like, 200 MB

michael @lutz9/11/2023, 1:54 PM

i know im OP but that was a DSL story and since the prompt specified dial-up i got to thinking back beyond my Batman Disappointments. so a few years prior to that, probably because i was a very very weird kid (did you think Hannibal fandom was born with the TV show? haha no), i became obsessed with obtaining a high quality version of Angela Hewitt's performance of Bach's Goldberg Variations, which is about 80 minutes long, and yes, i set it to download via Kazaa one day before i left for school and then had to fight to keep my sister off the landline when we got home that afternoon. and it still took several days to complete (thank god kazaa could pause downloads). anyway it turned out it was a mistitled copy of Glenn Gould's performance of the Goldberg Variations, which, trust me, is a pretty funny punchline

whit @whit9/11/2023, 2:18 PM

it took like three hours to download a like 17mb ~~quicktime~~ hold up shit remembered that shit was a real media file of the music video for Nine Inch Nails' The Perfect Drug over dialup in 1997 and it was worth every minute for my goth ass to watch that size-of-a-postage-stamp video and then decide I should sneakily try to make absinthe in a mason jar in my closet.

and now I can just watch that shit WHENEVER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn3j6-yQKWQ

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Jamsque @Jamsque9/10/2023, 8:41 PM

Batman vs Predator was a real comic! I know because I found it in my local library when I was 10 or 11 years old. It remains the only Batman comic I have ever read.

garbae5000 @garbae5009/10/2023, 9:00 PM

hey, as long as it was slickly produced

philosophy major (derogatory (reclamative))@nullpat9/10/2023, 9:40 PM

that premise is baffling, obviously mr. freeze should fight the predator

spiderflorist @Sol9/10/2023, 10:32 PM

I love that it wasn’t even like a prank or a lie but it was just as big a waste of your time as if it had been

The internet has always been this way

A Big Old Skeleton @A-Big-Old-Skeleton9/10/2023, 11:04 PM

Man I almost forgot this short existed, and now instead of remembering my niece's birthday I will instead remember this thing's existence. I'd hold you responsible for this, but it's really on me for watching the damn thing in the first place like a decade ago or however long it's been.

Th Esteemed Deed Commemorator @spineflu9/11/2023, 4:28 PM

back in my day you could have a thread about Batman fighting ________ that'd go for hundreds if not thousands of pages (multiply that by 20 to get roughly the number of posts, ye who do not remember the pre-feed era) that you could just routinely ignore if you weren't interested in The Worst Nerd Culture Had To Offer. It was contained, and could be muted. Tag culture means it routinely breaks containment. Retvrn to phpbbs.

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andi @mcc9/11/2023, 4:01 PM

I installed the entirety of Linux over a 28k modem at least twice

Kyle @kyle909/11/2023, 10:40 PM

I downloaded the movie "Joe Dirt" off KaZaA on a 36.6k modem when I was 14. it took eight days (it was not worth it)

DoubleCakes @RobinsonNox9/11/2023, 11:08 PM

When I had dial-up (which was 3.2k/s at best), I downloaded a number of games around the 700MB size including Fallout. I was downloading it in bits over the course of weeks.

Kewlio: I'll see you guys next time @KewlioMZX9/12/2023, 4:02 AM

Visual Studio .NET 2003. Took an entire month.

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@Eddiephlash9/11/2023, 3:34 PM

I downloaded a "sneak peak" of Spider-Man 3 on my college dorm internet, and it was something like 45 minutes to download a 6 minute video.

I remember it being the scene where Harry and Peter first face off and it was changed quite a bit in the actual movie. I still don't think SM3 was as bad as most people seem to think, and I wonder if part of that was the sunk cost fallacy of spending computer time and resources downloading that preview.

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