[HN Gopher] When CDs Launched in America (2016)
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       When CDs Launched in America (2016)
        
       Author : indigodaddy
       Score  : 8 points
       Date   : 2021-09-23 08:53 UTC (2 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.theatlantic.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theatlantic.com)
        
       | TheJoeMan wrote:
       | This part was interesting to me:
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       | "...Except for early adopters -- such as college students with
       | fast Net connections"
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       | I suppose it used to be the college kids had the fastest
       | internet, in the dorms and such, and were the drivers of
       | innovation. I graduated a state school recently and let me tell
       | you, our dorm internet was garbage. On top of that, it was
       | heavily policed by IT and I don't think it'd be possible for a
       | student to host a web server or even burn some CD's from
       | torrents.
        
         | smackeyacky wrote:
         | From 2000: Napster was taking up a significant amount of
         | bandwidth in colleges at the time, enough for it to be
         | problematic:
         | 
         | https://www.iowastatedaily.com/article_23a8a315-cccc-5e15-9f...
        
         | schnable wrote:
         | Ay my school in the early 2000s, we had on-campus fiber to the
         | desktop--we had to buy fiber PCI cards for our computers--and
         | no security whatsoever. I don't remember how fast the
         | connection to the outside world was (fast enough for heavy
         | Napstering and Lime-wiring for sure), but the internal network
         | was blazing fast, and a lot of music and movies made the rounds
         | on SMB shares.
        
           | ryandrake wrote:
           | Early 1990s, we had two 10base-T lines to each dorm. Still
           | most people used old school modems and didn't even know what
           | ethernet was. I bought a load of cheap ethernet cards nearly
           | wholesale and demo'ed-then-sold them to students for a couple
           | of years. Didn't pay my tuition but gave me a few spending
           | coins.
        
         | polpo wrote:
         | In 1999 I ran a mail server with qmail that handled incoming
         | and outgoing mail for my personal domain and also a somewhat
         | large (20GB) pirate MP3 FTP site, all from a server in the
         | closet of my campus dorm room. The campus IT never said a word!
        
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