Sex and Music at 56 kilobytes per second

[sodakhobo]

I was twelve years old in the winter of 1996 when my dad bought my family's first real computer. We brought it all the way home to South Dakota from an electronics store at the Mall of America. It was a Packard Bell with an Intel 486 processor and windows 3.1.1. Al Gore had only just recently invented the internet and it was slow to catch on in

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[anothermarcus]

The first .mp3 I ever downloaded, back in the good old days of Hotline, was "What It's Like" by Everlast. It took probably like a half hour to complete the download. I listened to it over and over again waiting for the next track in my queue to finish, "Another One Bites the Dust." If record companies would've paid attention to the fact that kids were willing to spend hours a day just to get three or four songs through their dial-ups, they might have caught on a little sooner to the little change that was about to take place in their industry. As far as chatting goes, though, I only made my way into a chatroom once, and it was just as awkward for me... Sorry, man!

-Soccerdude16

(PS did you write this for a class or something?)

[sodakhobo]

I downloaded my first mp3 off Napster. I'm trying to remember now whether it was "Beer" by Reel Big Fish or "Should I Stay or Should I Go" by the Clash. It was one of those.

No, no class. Just one of those things I was thinking about that I wanted to put into writing.