I remember those times. I even remember some tricks to make Internet Explorer resume downloads since back then not only 95% of people used it for the WWW, it didn't resume downloads by default.
Gaming Internet and Download - Does anyone remember that ?
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Any other Prestel users from the early 80's or is that going back too far?
I really hope,they are still "alive".....
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