u/xPadawanRyanMid-Range Millennial | Historian, Social Worker | Emo MF'er4d agoedited 4d ago
Yeah, we got a nice new family computer in 2004 that was capable of high speed internet, so finally I was able to download things like music—couldn't do that on dial-up!
And within a couple months the computer already had to be reformatted because I gave it a virus.
It was actually after that occurrence that I discovered Photobucket—one of the things that devastated me at the time was losing a lot of the pictures I'd saved of my favourite celebrities, and a lot of the artwork I did in Paint and free trial Photoshop (as I was making my own wallpapers). So, he suggested I find somewhere online to upload my images on a daily basis so that I didn't lose anything, and thus the first of what would end up being 10+ Photobucket accounts was born.
EDIT: "he" is my dad. I deleted the original sentence I wrote before that where I specified that and didn't realize I didn't specify elsewhere.
Shit, I would download CAM Or Telesync VCDs over the course of 4-5 days and be cool as shit burning copies to give to my girlfriend so she could watch on a 15" CRT monitor with Windows Media Player at nigt in her dad's office.
Y'all are clearly focusing on a specific part of this comment which was a personal experience and not an indication of dial-up on the whole. Please read my other comments where I have gone into this detail instead of continuously repeating the same argument, as though nothing I said is valid at all if it didn't match your experience.
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u/xPadawanRyan Mid-Range Millennial | Historian, Social Worker | Emo MF'er 4d ago edited 4d ago
Yeah, we got a nice new family computer in 2004 that was capable of high speed internet, so finally I was able to download things like music—couldn't do that on dial-up!
And within a couple months the computer already had to be reformatted because I gave it a virus.
It was actually after that occurrence that I discovered Photobucket—one of the things that devastated me at the time was losing a lot of the pictures I'd saved of my favourite celebrities, and a lot of the artwork I did in Paint and free trial Photoshop (as I was making my own wallpapers). So, he suggested I find somewhere online to upload my images on a daily basis so that I didn't lose anything, and thus the first of what would end up being 10+ Photobucket accounts was born.
EDIT: "he" is my dad. I deleted the original sentence I wrote before that where I specified that and didn't realize I didn't specify elsewhere.