The early days of downloading were a fun time

  • @[email protected]
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    607 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.

  • Scrubbles
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    447 months ago

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

  • v_krishna
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    267 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
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      187 months ago

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

    • thermal_shock
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      47 months ago

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

  • @eran_morad
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    257 months ago

    Shout to those who recognize that chick

    • @FlexibleToast
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      147 months ago

      How could you not recognize the OG throat GOAT?

  • @ummthatguy
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    177 months ago

    Where my eDonkey 2000 boys at‽

      • @ummthatguy
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        97 months ago

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

        • @AtariDump
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          67 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
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      57 months ago

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

  • @Skkorm
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    97 months ago

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

  • @sploosh
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    57 months ago

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

  • @iAvicenna
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    57 months ago

    god the anticipation of waiting for that download to finish