My experience:
Everything by Muse labelled as Radiohead
Everything by Radiohead labelled as Muse
Everything that sounds remotely nu metal labelled as Linkin Park
“That downloaded rather fast!” was a prelude to “oh no, computer is dead”
There was a song I had labelled Linkin Park that wasn’t… it was a cool song but I don’t remember enough to search for it any more.
Was it the demo of Trapt’s Headstrong? Everyone said that was by Linkin Park back in the day
Nope but I do remember this one.
I had this song by “Korn” in my music library: https://youtu.be/A9pRZoITnvo?si=awuug1FnTAuMwAuU
wow pretty problematic
What do you mean?
its not their job to educate you
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it’s not my job to educate you
I was out of the loop, you got me. This is hilarious.
I’m still out of the loop?
It’s not any of our jobs to educate you.
I think there was a recent meme about calling every post problematic and when asked for context just replying “it’s not my job to educate you.” Even if there wasn’t a post about that (false memory on my part, perhaps) that’s the joke.
^this
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And like 80% of one album but you don’t realize it was 80% until years later.
Also WinAmp really whips the laama’s ass
Rock over London, Rock on Chicago, Wheaties! Breakfast of Champions!
Fuck a cheetah!
I definitely had a weird version of Rammstein’s Amerika that was like, I don’t really remember, something like half of the song but looped twice? It’s been ages so I don’t remember. If I could find my Zune and a cable for it then maybe I’d know lol.
I feel old. And targetted.
Where is Adobe_Photoshop_6_Windows_CrAcKeD.iso?
Fucking nowhere, get in , we’re installing macromedia_flashMX_keygen.exe and learning ActionScript instead of JavaScript to derail our careers by about a decade.
child me taught myself a functional amount of actionscript in like 2008-9 and all i got for my trouble was a couple flash games and a massively decreased interest in game design as a career.
i also learned a bunch of batch and VBS, whole lotta fucken good those are doing me.
a massively decreased interest in game design as a career.
This is worth a lot though. It takes many people a few years of their life, a burnout and a lot of mental healthcare to get to this point.
Are you trying to tell me that there was a point I was allowed to quit?
God the actual fucking wasted youth. Just learn something slightly different and you’d make gazillionaires look like bums.
and at this point everyone i ask in person is just like “ask gpt for help” and that’s NOTHING
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Jesus, you people had some balls downloading software from LineWire, I was scared enough just downloading songs 😅
12 year old me had nothing to lose
People woud use limewire to download limewire pro
Wow haven’t thought about System of a Down Zelda Song in so long. An absolute banger: https://youtu.be/6hPeA0jv7jY
That wasnt the rickroll i was expecting, still a banger video.
Here in higher quality and with a link to the original author: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SDwk59K0KMQ
Link. He come to town. Gonna save – the Princess Zelda! Ganon put her awaY! Now the children don’t play! But they will, when Link save the day !
Sistem*
LINK,
HE COME TO TOWN,
COME TO SAVE,
THE PRINCESS ZELDA.
Yes! By System of a Down!
I recently learned it’s actually by a different band (I forget which).
I can still hear it to this day…I’m gonna get on YouTube brb
You forgot “Woohoo” by Blur
I got my head checked
By a jumbo jet
Every parody ever was made by Weird Al
And some are better than originals.
You’re missing XXX_Brittney_Spears_NUDEZ_.scr
Don’t forget Pam Anderson’s sex tape.
What about techno_song?
Absolute banger.
Song name?
Sandstorm-darude
setup.exe
Half.Life.2ep3.full.crack.EZiU.zip filled with pr0n.
I never used LimeWire I’m not old enough for that, what is it that people remember so fondly about it anyway? Was there something that made it special or is it just another torrent client?
FWIW Limewire was not a torrent client, at least not for a long time.
The Napster era of P2P file sharing used centralized servers for indexing and querying the content available: it was a much simpler system than torrents, but much less robust.
So your torrent search site and your torrent client were essentially bundled together within a desktop app. Again simpler: you could just tell someone what program to download and they were off to the races. Great for word of mouth when the web was still underdeveloped.
What came up when you searched was essentially whatever was in the shared folders of whoever happened to be online at the time. So it was even more of a wild west with essentially no moderation.
Overall worse than torrents in almost every way, but it was a fun weird time to be online. I personally went from Napster to KaZaA to Limewire before ultimately moving on to torrents.
The best thing about limewire was downloading “stupify” by Disturbed. Hitting play and it’s some random song you have never heard before that absolutely slaps.
Or random wrong names songs then years later you go to a concert and hear random band number 2 playing and it’s their song you got from lime wire years ago
The best thing about limewire was that it allowed downloading of video files and it became prevalent just as I became pubescent.
Morpheus was a fantastic successor.
I feel like it was a similar experience in the earlier days of torrenting. Nowadays it still happens but only from less reputable torrents. Though also it’s been years since I ever torrented music. These days almost everything is online for download or can be downloaded or captured from a streaming service.
Seems pretty similar to how Soulseek is today.
Oh so it wasn’t really torrenting, just similar.
Exactly. Torrenting is just so much more powerful that it’s become synonymous with file sharing as a whole.
LimeWire was based on Gnutella protocol, which was actually the first major P2P file sharing protocol. The file discovery was completely decentralised. But yes, way simpler and less robust than BitTorrent.
I think LimeWire might have been the first one where you could have concurrent connections and restart an interrupted download. Before that was Napster, where if you lost Internet, the whole download was wasted. On dial up, that could be hours of wasted time
It was one of the most popular clients in the early 2000s. It also had several clones, like FrostWire. I heard about Limewire in like 9th grade and it was my introduction to torrenting. My family still had dial up internet, so I would queue up several songs to download over night while no one was using the phone.
I only ever used uTorrent back when I started torrenting and years later I moved on to qbittorrent, which I still use today.
It may be that I remember associating Limewire specifically with music. I know it was just a torrent client, but as a highschooler I only knew it as a way to get free music. I think a lot of people in my school had the same impression.
Once I was more tech savvy I also went the uTorrent, qbittorrent route. That’s what I use in my Jellyfin setup today.
Prior to LimeWire you kind of mostly had to go to a physical store to buy a physical medium, or you “pirated” music onto blank tapes or CDs and swapped them with your friends. Shopping from home for (free) music was a game changer.
Is that actually true? I mean maybe I’m wrong about this, since I wasn’t there but I’ve heard usenet was a thing even before limewire.
I also don’t know xD. I was not even born when Lime Wire was on peak.
I was but I was only a little kid and didn’t know about torrenting yet. Not even sure if my household had internet at the time.
LimeWire had the search built in. Coupled with being a kid, it made it very easy to download it and get tons of free music. I don’t even think I understood what torrenting was at the time. If it was seeding it either didn’t make it clear or I was just that young and dumb. Basically, the interface was intuitive enough for people to just use and not worry about the details is what I’m trying to say.
So basically what qbittorrent with a search engine plugin was but before they had search engine plugins and qbittorrent?
Yeah pretty much
