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		petercooper on Sept 3, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google user comment in 2000 I remember first seeing the Internet and thinking "How can you load two different things at once? Surely the phone line is dedicated to downloading one thing at a time?" .. a childhood of BBS use had spoiled me ;-)

etherael on Sept 4, 2009 [–]

It must be some kind of z-modem hackery.

(my earliest self explanation for the phenomenon that I too, noticed from a few years messing about on BBS') :)

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