We didn't get to download any episode of any show at any moment in seconds like you whippersnappers can.. Yeah, a Bleach episode was 500 mb. Mom calling somebody? Download interrupted. Internet cut? Download interrupted. Your brother makes the dumb mistake of trying to download an episode of Naruto at the same time? Download interrupted. The downloads usually took 6 or 7 hours overnight. Computer fell asleep at any point overnight?? Download. Interrupted. NO TORRENTS WERE NOT A THING. God damn. Why did we even do that to ourselves? Bleach was garbage. Naruto was okay for two seasons maximum. The low byte speed struggle was real.
Man, I had forgotten about that shit. It was infuriating! I remember getting Xenogears ISOs sent to me by a friend over MSN messenger (at least I had broadband, this was around 2005), but it would crap out all the time, and there was no download resuming. It took so many fucking tries! AIM allowed you to resume, but being Norwegian I barely knew it existed.