This was cutting edge tech... I remember the excitement of replacing floppy discs with CDRs...
This isn't very old lol. That computer could be from 2010 and CD's and Sharpies were used then. Also, LimeWire was functional until like late 2010.
the computer isn't beige enough.
I remember the moment I realised my fancy new Walkman could read data CD-Rs and I could fit all my mp3s into one 700mb disc. I felt insane, majestic, limitless.
Everytime I see limewire I feel left out.
Where are my Kaaza hommies at??
Slsk (Soulseek) was far superior. It was the best for getting full albums and leaked stuff. If you found someone with a fast connection and thick library it was like gold.
Shoutout to everyone that got Modest Mouse’s We Were Dead album with “Mike Jones” randomly played in the background.
Slsk is still around today and people swear by it.
Because it's pretty much under the radar of the industry and you can find all kind of music there. Is nice.
Where are my eMule fuckers at?
No SoulSeek fans here?
That's the modern napster IMO.
Just a shame it's hard to automate.
What do you want to automate with it though?
Isn't slskd enough?
What's slskd?
I just want to send a list of music and download it automatically, with a specific bitrate, regexed or if-checked for "cover", "instrumental" etc.
2001, Dre's album drops, nobody has it yet. In walks the kid who has a T1 line and a 5 disc CD copier with a spindle of discs. He sits down in homeroom, puts the spindle on his desk and says Dre's new album five bucks right here.
He sold out before the end of the day, made a good amount of cash, and was racking it in for months getting people albums that they requested because none of us could get it work with our slow connection. Of course when the two competing ISPs upgraded their networks later that year, he lost the majority of his business, but for a few months he was our pirate savior.
There was a kid who was selling the cheat codes for pokemon he printed off gamefaqs at my school. One of my friends found out I had internet access and asked me if I would get them for him. After I did that some other people asked me as well. Eventually the kid who was selling them got wind of it and got a couple of his other friends together to jump me on the playground at recess. I remember laying on the ground looking up at him standing over me threatening me if I didn't stop doing that and just thinking "this is really stupid..."
The playground Mafia, you stop cutting into my business or your going to have an extra long nap time. Capiche?
I'm older.
Let's just leave it at that
Yeah, I remember flippies and casettes, but I'm too young for 8 track.
Old enough to remember using a 3½” floppy disk to boot my first PC and mess around with GW/Q-BASIC and play DOS games.
The disks were strongly perfumed (I guess the guy I bought my pirated games from liked to do that for some reason), and I still remember that aroma.
I’m monochrome cga screen old. Commodore VIC 20, Philips MSX, Video 2000 old.
Ah, a fellow ancient one from the time before color. Cheers.
Kids, I played Leisure Suit Larry on a Macintosh II
My favorite memory of that era was awkwardly asking my mom historical questions to get past the age block.
'Mom! Who was Nixon's vice president?' or something like that.
...I'm older.
...Oregon Trail older, motherfucker.
That's impossible. You would've died of dysentery long ago!
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