On college majors and voting preferences
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I have no idea what they do these days.
We used DirectConnect hubs and later WASTE when the former were shut down. Then these jackasses somehow got access to WASTE and shut that down too. When the smoke cleared I think some of the guys who set it all up got kicked out of the dorms for their troubles.
We had something called Flatlan, and then the school installed a packet shaping device to stop people from using the entirety of their external bandwidth for external filesharing. I feel like file sharing has peaked, because kids nowadays use shared Netflix passwords and streaming accounts for music.
You'll own nothing and be happy
It was a weird time. I remember I had a 100GB hard drive, and it could be filled by ~8hrs download on the Internet2. All free. Either you paid for physical media or you copied for free, but physical copies had higher resolution. I2 never materialized by name, but bitrates support streaming now, and most people aren't worried about how much they can store locally
Haha oh man, I haven't thought about DirectConnect in YEARS.
My first year at college, Windows network browsing was still enabled, so you could just browse to someone's computer if they had file sharing enabled. There was one guy who was notorious for having like 50gb of porn freely shared. If you said the name of his computer on campus, chances are someone around would be like "oh heck yeah!"
I had dialup up at home, so yeah, that was different.
Come to think of it, I made a copy of that whole archive...I wonder if I still have it on an old HDD somewhere.