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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 ;-)


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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