I was downloading a file from the web today. It was approximately 111 megs. By the end of the three minutes it took to download I was drumming my fingers on the desk and impatiently tapping my foot waiting for the interminable time to be over.

I can remember when 100 megs was about the upper limit that I’d attempt to download at 56K. Mindspring had a twelve HOUR limit on connections and files any larger than that wouldn’t download in time.

I can remember 300 baud (something a good typists can out-type) and all you traded were small text files if that and nothing else.

Then I realized… that one file I impatiently waited three whole minutes for this morning was ten times LARGER than the first hard-drive I ever had!

Damn, I’m old in computer years…

These sounds were first detected in 2002 buy the Cassini space probe. They have been modified; sped up so that twenty-seven minutes of output is played in just over a minute and pitched downward into the audible range by a factor of forty-four. But still, the crazy thing is sitting out there howling into space like some crazed B-Movie monster.