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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I discovered file sharing in the early days of Napster. When that went away a lot of people flocked to Limewire, but after trying it for a night or two I said "no way, José" and never opened that crap application again, polluted with spam and fishy files.

Right around this time, Audiogalaxy started growing, and that's the first time I came across a game-changing feature: you could resume a download even after you had been accidentally booted from the dial-up connection! This was astounding to me at the time, like magic to my primitive mind.