• InFerNo@lemmy.ml
    11·
    2 years ago

    Kazaam ia perhaps an audio identification tool.

    KaZaA was the piracy tool. Also WinMX was popular, eDonkey/eMule too I think? Limewire of course…

  • Eheran
    61·
    2 years ago

    What about the PC? I was there, 6’000 years ago, but I do not understand.

    • Nick
      9·
      2 years ago

      I believe it has caught some malware

      • NielsBohronEnglish
        8·
        2 years ago

        at that point, it would just be “viruses.” As I recall, in the ancient times everything unwanted on a PC was just a virus, as we hadn’t even invented the term “bloatware” and it wasn’t really until about 2004-5 that I even heard the term “spyware,” so the catchall term “malware” wasn’t really in common usage (at least to my teenage ears).

        What a sweet summer child I was…

        • Nick
          2·
          2 years ago

          And here I was, trying to use the most generic term in the hopes of not having to guess at if it was a virus, a trojan, scareware or something else that would’ve been distributed p2p back then

          • NielsBohronEnglish
            3·
            2 years ago

            Nah, you’re good. Malware is definitely the proper term now; it’s just a little anachronistic, since most of the people I knew in the early 2000’s would even have said that a Trojan was just a type of virus.