On college majors and voting preferences
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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