You had to actually wait for the gratification. BTW, Soulseek still exists, and is still awesome. Kids these days.... I bet they don't even organize their media collections!
You might be one of the few people here who properly appreciates the best perk of that aforementioned summer job was it came with a free ISDN line.
More than half a lifetime ago and I (clearly) still want to brag about it. ;-)