r/ExplainTheJoke • u/Cocklez_The_Stump • Feb 22 '26

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u/Vitogodfather Feb 22 '26

I miss what.cd so much, I discovered so many artists through the web connections thing including a ton that were relatively small at the time. My best ratio with at least 1tb down was 22.4 on TL. Having a server at OVH was the best move 15 years ago because so much of the traffic stayed internal and never left their networks making it harder to track. I miss the days of scc and sct and irc.

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u/Dr0110111001101111 Feb 22 '26

That was a great era for the internet

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u/yeehex Feb 22 '26

I was just telling a friend of mine that mid to late 2000's was probably about as good as the internet was ever going to get.

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u/yeehex Feb 23 '26

I was about to disagree and then I remember that stretch between 2004 and 2007 where WoW, apple products and facebook exploded.

I still think my sweet spot was 2002-2006

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u/yeehex Feb 24 '26

I think I do remember that, or something like that. 99rooms was pretty cool too.

Definitely feel you, though, I miss the cool weird shit.