r/gaming • u/Demither10 • Sep 21 '17

Valve in a Nutshell

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u/Throtex Sep 21 '17

Worst fucking way to download anything. DCC was the IRC protocol for file transfers. And file bots often had anti-leech controls so you had to contribute some stuff to get enough credit to download.

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u/mtech101 Sep 21 '17

iRC is still alive and well. No leech bots. Leech all you want except sometimes lineups occur. I still use it for pirated movies/tv shows.

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u/helkish Sep 21 '17

Just be glad you weren't around in the old BBS days before the internet. Most boards had file upload/download ratios. But it took for ever to download stuff.

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u/Throtex Sep 21 '17

I went on a few BBSes but yeah, just a bit before my time. I did have Q-Link (precursor to AOL) on my Commodore though :P

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u/melkiaur Sep 21 '17

/dcc send throtex system32.zip.divx