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by _AzMoo 661 days ago
There were in the very late 90's, and lots of us were still on dial-up/ISDN at that time. They were usually in asf, rm, avi, or mov format, and were incredibly low quality. This is around the time we were using invite-only FTP servers to share stuff.
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I remember downloading the Star Wars Phantom Menace trailer in QuickTime format (because the RealPlayer version was so bad) and even that took quite a while, even though it was only a trailer.
> invite-only FTP servers

The PC plebs might have been, but us Mac people had the glorious hotline community..