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The early days of downloading were a fun time

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[-] vrek@programming.dev 61 points 4 months ago

I've told this story before it's funny so I'll repeat it... It was the early 2000s and I heard a song on the radio where a man made a bunch of funny sounds with his voice and the only lyrics I remembered were "I'm the scat man". I was interested to see what else he made...

I went on to kazza and search "scat man", found a video I assumed was a music video and downloaded... Several hours later (56k modem)...

My childhood was lost forever.

[-] Hupf@feddit.de 18 points 4 months ago

Skibidi before it was cool

[-] shplane@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

Can definitely relate. Exploring rotten.com made quick work of my childhood innocence

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 44 points 4 months ago

Now there's a face I haven't seen in a long time

[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Who is it?

[-] bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 25 points 4 months ago

Heather Harmon... or so my friend says anyway.

[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

Oooooh! I didn't recognise her as a brunette! Now that brings back some memories...

[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Hmm. Time to Google (I still don’t recognize her)

[-] bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago

You're in for a treat... Or so my friend says anyway.

[-] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 4 months ago

Throat goat.

[-] v_krishna@lemmy.ml 26 points 4 months ago

I am almost 40, and have been a VP of Engineering at multiple silicon valley based tech companies. Still I have an uncle who I'm quite sure doesn't trust me to touch any of his computers because in the 90s I definitely bricked more than a few of his PCs by fucking around and finding out.

[-] whereisk@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

Breaking a few eggs to make the omelette. Unfortunately for him it was his eggs.

[-] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

this is exactly how I learned how to reinstall windows. fucking up my dad's compaq

[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago

Shout to those who recognize that chick

[-] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

How could you not recognize the OG throat GOAT?

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

Where my eDonkey 2000 boys at‽

[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Right here, but we’re moving to Overnet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDonkey2000

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Good to know some vestige of the old days lives on.

[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

What I remember (I think it was the eDonkey software) was the ads were just photos in a folder.

What I did was found dummy ads, renamed them to the names of the legitimate ads, deleted the original ads, and set the folder to read only. All I ever saw were the joke ads.

Man, that brings me back. That and the software that would update your trackers automagically every x amount of minutes.

[-] devfuuu@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

So many hours. So many music I downloaded from there.

[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 months ago

Nothing the Debian or SuSE install CDs couldn't fix 😉

[-] Skkorm@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

I wonder if she's aware about how many computers she's taking part in destroying

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

god the anticipation of waiting for that download to finish

[-] sploosh@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

When Kazaa killed Kazaa Lite, I was upset until I got on Kazaa and downloaded Kazaa Lite.

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