Mainly email, research, eventually Napster, irc chatting, and entertainment. Things were not fast on 14.4 or 28.8kbps dial up. When I got 56k,it took about an hour to download a 5MB mp3. Those were tough times. File downloaders were necessary apps, which would recover and continue your download after your modem connection quit halfway. It was also unheard of to have to log into a website. HTTP wasn’t the only show in town, some other older nerds may remember Gopher (you can still browse it, too).
The pain of downloading the demo of Bio Menace on 14.4kb with the fear the file would just stall for no reason. When download managers came along it was a game changer.
Mainly email, research, eventually Napster, irc chatting, and entertainment. Things were not fast on 14.4 or 28.8kbps dial up. When I got 56k,it took about an hour to download a 5MB mp3. Those were tough times. File downloaders were necessary apps, which would recover and continue your download after your modem connection quit halfway. It was also unheard of to have to log into a website. HTTP wasn’t the only show in town, some other older nerds may remember Gopher (you can still browse it, too).
The pain of downloading the demo of Bio Menace on 14.4kb with the fear the file would just stall for no reason. When download managers came along it was a game changer.