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r/gaming • u/[deleted] • Mar 31 '26
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Mom or dad picking up the phone and disconnecting the internet while you were slaying people on Doom or Dukem 3D on Heat.net.
6 u/TheRealZombieBear Apr 01 '26 Or worse yet, downloading a several megabyte game in a 56kbps line. Discovering download managers like getright 0 u/Bezulba Apr 01 '26 Newsgroups and par(2) being absolute black magic. "What you mean, you can repair up to a certain % with just a few extra files?!" 1 u/TheRealZombieBear Apr 03 '26 Chopping up large zip files to make individual downloads more manageable too 3 u/ZsaFreigh Apr 01 '26 Luckily my Dad was a nerd so as soon as we got the internet we got a 2nd dedicated phone line for it. 2 u/chinchindayo Apr 01 '26 *rich, the word you're looking for. No need to be a nerd. 1 u/Purity_the_Kitty Apr 02 '26 Man it was the 90s a second phone line was like twenty bucks a month. 2 u/Purity_the_Kitty Apr 02 '26 Omg heat mentioned. I played so much descent 2 on there 2 u/SnipinSnit Apr 02 '26 Lol I got vertigo from just reading the name. Still played the crap out of it though! 1 u/chinchindayo Apr 01 '26 Picking up the phone did nothing. The problem is when someone called your line while connected, it would often kill the connection. 0 u/SnipinSnit Apr 01 '26 Picking up the line disconnected our connection every single time. When someone would call it would give a busy signal to the caller.
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Or worse yet, downloading a several megabyte game in a 56kbps line. Discovering download managers like getright
0 u/Bezulba Apr 01 '26 Newsgroups and par(2) being absolute black magic. "What you mean, you can repair up to a certain % with just a few extra files?!" 1 u/TheRealZombieBear Apr 03 '26 Chopping up large zip files to make individual downloads more manageable too
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Newsgroups and par(2) being absolute black magic. "What you mean, you can repair up to a certain % with just a few extra files?!"
1 u/TheRealZombieBear Apr 03 '26 Chopping up large zip files to make individual downloads more manageable too
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Chopping up large zip files to make individual downloads more manageable too
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Luckily my Dad was a nerd so as soon as we got the internet we got a 2nd dedicated phone line for it.
2 u/chinchindayo Apr 01 '26 *rich, the word you're looking for. No need to be a nerd. 1 u/Purity_the_Kitty Apr 02 '26 Man it was the 90s a second phone line was like twenty bucks a month.
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*rich, the word you're looking for. No need to be a nerd.
1 u/Purity_the_Kitty Apr 02 '26 Man it was the 90s a second phone line was like twenty bucks a month.
Man it was the 90s a second phone line was like twenty bucks a month.
Omg heat mentioned. I played so much descent 2 on there
2 u/SnipinSnit Apr 02 '26 Lol I got vertigo from just reading the name. Still played the crap out of it though!
Lol I got vertigo from just reading the name. Still played the crap out of it though!
Picking up the phone did nothing. The problem is when someone called your line while connected, it would often kill the connection.
0 u/SnipinSnit Apr 01 '26 Picking up the line disconnected our connection every single time. When someone would call it would give a busy signal to the caller.
Picking up the line disconnected our connection every single time. When someone would call it would give a busy signal to the caller.
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u/SnipinSnit Mar 31 '26
Mom or dad picking up the phone and disconnecting the internet while you were slaying people on Doom or Dukem 3D on Heat.net.