Also, some interesting @thunderbird trivia: In 2004, blazing fast internet access wasn't nearly as widespread as it is now, so Mozilla offered to send installation CD-ROMs to users for $5.95.
@killyourfm@thunderbird in 2004 I think we were on 1Mbps down and 256kbps up.
Quite an upgrade from the ISDN TA or before that the 14k4 to later 56k modems.
@killyourfm over here, your ISP and your phone provider billed by the minute :<
that was annoying. quickly got the first download manager tools that could resume downloads.
edonkey was also pretty nice (well, mostly for illicit stuff) but the download mechanism was pretty robust and could resume/survive a broken connection.
yeah, that first 768kBit/s line (much later) was a real win!
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