I was downloading episodes of Jackass back in about 2001, using I think it would have been eMule.
You’d get a 240p MPEG-1 file, and you were happy with that.
Hilariously, for people who didn’t own computers that could handle playing videos from CD-Rs, as my PC’s video card had composite output I used to make VHS tapes from those files. And then put the adhesive label sheet for the tape cassette through the printer.
I was downloading episodes of Jackass back in about 2001, using I think it would have been eMule.
You’d get a 240p MPEG-1 file, and you were happy with that.
Hilariously, for people who didn’t own computers that could handle playing videos from CD-Rs, as my PC’s video card had composite output I used to make VHS tapes from those files. And then put the adhesive label sheet for the tape cassette through the printer.
Y’know, normal stuff.