When I was a wee lad I was always envious of people on IRC who had these things called "shell accounts" that let them stay connected to IRC 24/7.
They could schedule downloads to their remote boxes and wouldn't have to tie up the home phone line for three days downloading the latest warez from that guy who had an ISDN line and let 10 people(!) simultaneously download from his bot at a screaming 5k/s.
Now I can have all those things (including the equivalent of 1000 ISDNs), and I don't really use IRC anymore, young me would be so jealous.
They could schedule downloads to their remote boxes and wouldn't have to tie up the home phone line for three days downloading the latest warez from that guy who had an ISDN line and let 10 people(!) simultaneously download from his bot at a screaming 5k/s.
Now I can have all those things (including the equivalent of 1000 ISDNs), and I don't really use IRC anymore, young me would be so jealous.