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		oorza on Oct 31, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: JPEG image of Shakespeare which is also a zip file... No way to resume BBS and later FTP uploads back in the day.

PhasmaFelis on Oct 31, 2018 [–]

I thought it was assumed that the files, once downloaded, would be distributed locally on floppies. The sub-archives were usually 1.44MB to fit on a 3.5".

When did resumable BBS download protocols become a thing? ZMODEM at least was widely used by the early '90s.

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