sgt_bilko
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- Aug 16, 2018
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To all of you (likely zoomers) in here having no idea why a massive 15GB game is in 5 parts.
You see kids... In the way early days of the internets when we all had fuckin' dial-up.. downloads that were too large were more likely to become corrupt if they were over a certain filesize, so it made sense to break things down into manageable parts and then download them separately. That also allowed you to have breaks in between so you could actually BROWSE the internet.
Now admittedly, that doesn't happen today but nevertheless, when you have a game this big, and no CDN service like Steam where it can be massively distributed, and some download sites still have bandwidth limits, you spread the parts across multiple sites, so you can gather them all quickly with little bottlenecking.
*leans back in rocker*
*sips beer*
Necessity is the mother of invention, and you can bet your gooner asses we found all kinds of ways to share files with each other. Then came Napster, Shareaza, Limewire, Direct Connect, DC++, and then BitTorrent..
But the skills we learned in Zip and RAR compression were everlasting.. Do you little fuckers even know what a RAR is?!
*lights pipe*
Yea.. those were the days, when an image of a naked woman would slowly load on the screen.. and the anticipation was just as exciting as the image itself. You kids miss out on that today. Everything is instant.
You see kids... In the way early days of the internets when we all had fuckin' dial-up.. downloads that were too large were more likely to become corrupt if they were over a certain filesize, so it made sense to break things down into manageable parts and then download them separately. That also allowed you to have breaks in between so you could actually BROWSE the internet.
Now admittedly, that doesn't happen today but nevertheless, when you have a game this big, and no CDN service like Steam where it can be massively distributed, and some download sites still have bandwidth limits, you spread the parts across multiple sites, so you can gather them all quickly with little bottlenecking.
*leans back in rocker*
*sips beer*
Necessity is the mother of invention, and you can bet your gooner asses we found all kinds of ways to share files with each other. Then came Napster, Shareaza, Limewire, Direct Connect, DC++, and then BitTorrent..
But the skills we learned in Zip and RAR compression were everlasting.. Do you little fuckers even know what a RAR is?!
*lights pipe*
Yea.. those were the days, when an image of a naked woman would slowly load on the screen.. and the anticipation was just as exciting as the image itself. You kids miss out on that today. Everything is instant.