• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Arduous?! Why you little…

    In the AOL days, I got on newsgroups and hunted songs. Good luck finding what you wanted. Then I’d download 6-12 pieces and use software to tack those pieces into a single MP3. At 56K. (Really 53K, at best, and that was with tweaking modem strings and whatnot.)

    I repeat: Why you little…

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      4 hours ago

      53Kbps was what you got? Psst, damn younglings. In my day we reached 8Kbps speeds and considered ourselves lucky if our moms didn’t want to call anyone…

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      13 hours ago

      I think part of it has to do with how a lot of people listen to music now. I don’t listen to albums I find one or two songs I like from an artist and and them to a playlist. I am lucky to find an artist where I like more than 50% of their music.