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Dialup Glory Days

Windows Networking Security

23 days ago 71.2K views 0 shares

Dialup Glory Days

Ah, the digital Wild West of the early 2000s, when Limewire turned average middle schoolers into cyber criminals. Nothing says "I'm a tech rebel" quite like downloading a single MP3 that somehow infected your family's beige Windows 98 machine with 37 different viruses. Parents spent $2000 on that computer so you could do homework, and there you were, sacrificing it to the peer-to-peer gods for a corrupted copy of "In Da Club" that was actually just Bill Clinton's voice saying "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." The family computer never stood a chance.

Blood, Crips, And Database Connections

Networking Programming Databases Backend Cloud

2 months ago 108.1K views 0 shares

Blood, Crips, And Database Connections

The eternal architectural gang war nobody asked for. Left side: P2P, where every device thinks it's special and talks to everyone else like some distributed democracy experiment. Right side: Client-Server, the digital feudal system where one database rules them all and the peasant clients just have to deal with it. Sure, P2P is resilient when the apocalypse hits, but good luck finding that one file when half the network is asleep. Meanwhile, Client-Server has a single point of failure that keeps sysadmins awake at night, but at least you know exactly who to blame when everything crashes.