• unitedwithme@lemmy.today
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    15 hours ago

    OP says ~2007 internet (asumming bandwidth and avail content) got good enough to become mainstem, not that I started around then.

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      8 hours ago

      It wasn’t that though. High speed internet was available before that time. What really affected things in 2006 was that peer exchange was introduced to bittorrent, giving it a massive advantage over other file sharing services at the time.