• mctoasterson@reddthat.com
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    7 months ago

    It’s amazing Limewire didn’t destroy the entire western PC market.

    Documents that are actually malicious .exes.

    Hollywood movies that are actually scat/CP/gore.

    Game installers that are actually viruses.

    Popular bands .mp3 songs that are actually Wesley Willis.

    … on second thought. the last one was OK.

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      7 months ago

      I discovered file sharing in the early days of Napster. When that went away a lot of people flocked to Limewire, but after trying it for a night or two I said “no way, José” and never opened that crap application again, polluted with spam and fishy files.

      Right around this time, Audiogalaxy started growing, and that’s the first time I came across a game-changing feature: you could resume a download even after you had been accidentally booted from the dial-up connection! This was astounding to me at the time, like magic to my primitive mind.

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      7 months ago

      I was a dumb kid but even I recognized the 7kb zip files that showed up no matter what I searched for probably weren’t legit.

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    7 months ago

    I remember as a kid i downloaded something weird. It was porn, but possibly child porn so i deleted it, and then panicked like i might get swatted, but i didn’t want to reformat my computer so i hid my hard drive waiting for the police to search my house

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    7 months ago

    Friend “Hey popular film is on limewire!”

    Me - itll be porn

    Friend “Nah”

    It was porn

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    7 months ago

    Between Napster and Limewire I legit screwed up my families second computer. In my defense, they bought it with Windows ME so it wasn’t that great to begin with.

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    7 months ago

    Ahh hey we had one of those printers!

    I can’t say it was very reliable, but printers haven’t changed on that front. At least it didn’t bitch and moan for internet access so it could constantly nag you with bs about setting up a subscription