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They'll never know the magic (read: virus minefield) that was WinMX, Kazaa, Limewire, etc.
Or the even worse era of trolling IRC chats looking for DCC bots and hoping your feeble attempts at security or obfuscation will hold. Ah, the good ol days.
Warez websites with 9/10 links broken ftw
xdcc msg MoViEgOdz! get pack #128*starts downloading hardcore goat sex*
"Ah shit, I meant 127”
xdcc msg MoViEgOdz! cancel 128*goat sex downloads even faster*
"...well, at least it'll be educational"
Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?
Grab list, found what you wanted... As 49 separate downloads, on one busy bot.
While on dialup.
Admittedly, the small file chunks made sense on dialup, but man did it suck when you'd end up with 102 of 110 files and then they'd vanish.
Oh definitely, but wow did it suck when they went offline.... You just keep those parts around unless you can find another bot to start and complete a whole other download of different sized split rars...
I've never heard of this before. I was on IRC in the oughts, probably a bit late to see it happening. Neat.
By that point there were other options that were more popular, yeah. Xdcc as a script for ircii came out around 1995ish, maybe a bit earlier. Early 2000s would be around when mirc scripts had xdcc bots built in, so well after they first became common.
At that point you also had Napster, kazaa, limewire, even the first bittorrent client (BitTorrent).
Just do it now. Only like 8 other people are using DCC, so it's obfuscation in itself
Ah limewhire where you went to download ripped halo 3 roms and ended up with a few GB of amature porn
I pulled down some random ass pop song, and it ended up being some guy noodling on a keyboard playing a half assed version of the cantina song from Star Wars. I set it to my phone's ringtone. No idea when that mp3 was long, it was a LONG time ago
I downloaded an Elvis song with a mispelled song title, and for a while I would refer to it as "Quspicious Minds" and sing along
Quspicious Minds sounds like a documentary on the Qanon movement
They can't go on together, with Quspicious minds...
I downloaded Rammstein's Amerika but it was like just one specific verse and chorus repeated. It was really weird. It took my a while to notice because I didn't know German. My best guess is someone took a free sample of the song from somewhere and edited it so it was longer by repeating it a couple times.
Also, a few of the Nightwish songs I downloaded had an announcer in the middle of the bridge say something like "You are listening to Nightwish's new song Blah on the album Once." Maybe it said something about being able to buy it on iTunes. That one was interesting because it definitely seemed legit. I guess some artists released stuff like that knowing people would steal regardless so they wanted a version with instructions to buy it if you liked it. To this day when I'm listening to those songs I hear the voice in my head when the song gets to those parts.
I used to have a couple of songs where there was a skip because of an error in the CD rip, now when I listen to the song and the skip is missing I find it jarring
Same! Yes! I specifically remember one my (then) girlfriend (now wife) made like that. She made me a mix of some songs. I put them on my mp3 player so they had that slip in them on that too. Even on my first smart phone too back before I streamed music.
i did not have sexual relations with that woman
my favorite was the Madonna song that was just Madonna saying "What the fuck do you think you're doing?" over and over again for three minutes, and then someone made a dance remix of it and uploaded it again
Ah, and there I was, trying to download horse porn and ending up with Halo 3 😅
Soulseek was the best
Is.* Nicotine+ is the client to make it even better.
*is
I was born after 2000, and use soulseek to this day.
I reinstalled Windows like every other week 😅
Can I finger your plastron?