Re: member name


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from "Don Wang" <dwang@hmc.edu>
subject Re: member name
date Sat, 1 Jun 2002 04:54:01 -0700
> Lol. It was up for about a year and a half, with close to 200,000 hits
> before it went down.

    Sure seemed like it was around longer than that...

> I started off hosting the music files in .wav format, then I found this
neat
> compression format called .mp2 which let me whack the filesize down to 1/4
> to 1/3 the size. About half way through the lifespan of the archive,
> somebody asked me whether I'd heard of this newfangled .mp3 format. I
check
> it out, then dismissed it for the time being because the Fraunhopher
> Institute made you pay for the encoder. Plus, there were precious few
> programs that would actually play mp3 files.

    Heh, I probably still have the wave files somewhere.

    I remember saying MP3 would never get anywhere too... how times have
changed.

> So, it was crappy mp2 all the way. Plus, although I hosted complete songs,
I
> made sure that the quality was pretty low so people wouldn't replace the
> retail CDs with them. I had a lot of people email me and tell me that they
> specifically went out looking for the Cds after listening to the songs off
> my website.

    I always thought if people didn't want to pay for it, they'll settle for
low quality stuff.  Movie files in the early days suck but people still used
them, and same with music.

> *sniff* Wow...Those were the days ^_^ I think I lost the last bits and
> pieces I had of that website in a Hard drive crash a couple of years
back -
> Over 750mb of files, WITHOUT any of the music videos. (The music vids were
> quicktimes that I linked to on a different sight.) I had the page hosted
on
> a 486 computer linked to the university backbone in my father's office.
> There is absolutely no way I'd be able to afford to host a site like that
> these days.... Just try and find someplace that'll let you host a gig of
> files on their server...

    I still have the files on my harddrive with 250MB or so of assorted wave
& movie file from RSS even though I haven't touched them in a very long
time.

Don
"How hard can it be to make Yttrium Steel sheets (in EverQuest)?"
Me
Aside:  It takes 252 skill to make Yttrium, my skill is 175, and it's been
175 for the entire week despite intense playing efforts...



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