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20 years ago I was in college, it was earlyish days of piracy and the net admin had locked down all p2p protocols. I actually used irc bots to cruise file servers and request downloads. Not sure what protocol they were using for file transfer over mIRC but I got a lot of music that way. Netflix was also handy as a DVD burning service but that's another topic.
Back in the day I used direct connect, we had 100mbit internet (at my university), that was extremely fast back in the day.
DC++ was what we used at RIT that one year I went there. Cable internet first showed up near me in 2003 or so. I graduated high school in 2005 and cable was fairly ubiquitous, but still in its infancy compared to now. Getting to college and downloading at like 25MB/s blew my mind, versus what was essentially just Kazaa, Morpheus, and Limewire before that. It also probably had a direct impact on my failing to go to classes too, as I had what was essentially unfettered access to any show or movie I wanted almost instantly.
Good times, wouldn't change it for the world.