Yes, they were real men driving real cars with little aid from anything else. Not wimps like today's drivers...
@NStar
You are only missing one upload at 57mins to the hour. It started a couple of days ago,
But.... have you noticed that you are not uploading any bits zip files (I assume not intentionally). They upload at 57mins to the hour for you. If you look, you'll see that last Bits/Tone file uploaded was on 21st July at 11:58. Same for the others. That happens to coincide with your log entry you showed where the zip uploads failed just after that. I will observe that we used to upload every 15 mins but that changed a long time ago to every hour.
Looks like something has gone adrift there in DSLstats and it isn't reporting it. Maybe you need to clear some files or whatever, possibly Eric could advise if he spots this..