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Not sure if I agree with it being the worst mistake. The beauty of UDP is its simplicity and you get the absolute minimum. (And that’s the way I like it!) I’ve worked on low latency financial networks that route 40+ Gb of UDP multicast daily and error free. Nobody is fragmenting UDP packets, and most packet sizes are less than 1000 bytes. All financial exchanges have their own proprietary format, but all use sequence numbers in the data gram to keep track of packets.

I think the OP was referring to the difference in synthesizers. It sounds a heck of a lot different on an MT-32 compared to a Sound Blaster: https://youtu.be/0j4uywdNq44

1. SSL

2. I’m old enough to remember 56-bit SSL encryption in browsers

It’s probably a good thing I didn’t have the knowledge/skills I have now, it might have saved me from trouble. Back in those days I was more interested in getting Back Orfice to remotely open a CD-ROM tray on a friend’s computer. I remember when broadband was first being rolled out it seemed like everyone was hooking up their cable/DSL modems directly to their PC and having a public IP with no firewall. Good times.