This was cutting edge tech… I remember the excitement of replacing floppy discs with CDRs…

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    I had so many burned CDs with games and music… This was back when ADSL internet was the hot new thing with incredible download speeds of 30kb/s

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      I remember someone telling me they uncapped their modem and got 133 megabytes per second on an ICQ transfer. I called them on their BS, but it’s crazy that with Nvme and Fibre connections we’re finally there.