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Why do I miss that program so much?
no vpns, no antivirus software, just downloading pirated music that may or may not take 217846127841 days to download.
And a 50/50 chance of it being a virus.
Or the audio clip of Bill Clinton saying he did not have sexual relations
It was just so much simpler then. Aside from the viruses.
Even our viruses were simpler. If you just learned not to click on .exe files from Limewire, you basically had the perfect antivirus.
Back when I actually used Windows I never used an anti-virus and I never got a virus.
Reminds me of a time where you could download YouTube videos by finding the link to the .avi file in the HTML source code of the page. Kid version of me felt like such a hacker.
yt-dlpftwFun fact: soulseek is still running, and you can use nicotine plus today. Still one of the best places for music sharing.
Thanks for the rabbit hole.
I don't. Those were some rough times, when you didn't know whether or not you'd get the actual MP3, or a recording of a Bill Clinton impersonator selling something. These days it's a lot easier to find direct downloads to the exact track you want, in a guaranteed 320Kbps MP3 or even a lossless format like FLAC.
Does that mean FLAC is the best file format for archiving?
FLAC or WAV are lossless so yes.
MP3 or Ogg Vorbis are lossy so better for listening on the go.
As a rule of thumb, yes. Then you have purists who only listen to ripped vinyl records in 24 bits, 192kHz WAV format or people who don't give a fuck about quality and live happily with millions of 128kbps MP3s.
It's what I archive all my music in, so I'd say so. You get WAV quality without WAV file sizes.
When a FLAC (or any lossless) file is not available, I settle for 320Kbps MP3 (and not a single bit less). The quality is decent enough to be used in a live setting (I'm a DJ). Anything less than 320kbps, and you're hurting treble output, which will be noticeable on high-end speakers to anyone under the age of 30.
Thank you for the detailed answer
Now that i know i can stop archiving all the available file types (i mainly was too lazy to research...)
Yooooo, I had the bill clinton ones too lol
You miss your life from when the app was popular. Like all nostalgia, we don't miss the product or game or app itself, we miss who we were and how things seemed simpler.
No... Things literally were simpler back then as information moved a lot slower and the internet was far less privatised, if at all.
Your chat logs were saved to your own local drive, not a cloud, and you could delete them. Social media was just your web page you made for free on Geocities or Angelfire. Email spam was mostly chain mail. There were no bots whatsoever cluttering the internet. And so on.
And, FWIW, there were no such things as apps. Just programs. Apps started with the smart phone.
FWIW, people were talking about "killer apps" for various platforms back in the 1980s.
I don't know what to tell you. It certainly wasn't a word I or any one I spoke to used to describe programs.
No one you knew read PC Magazine? There was an article from 1989 (and quite a few more in the early to mid 90s).
OTOH, I do agree that "program" was more common than "application".
Mostly -- your comment about "no apps" dredged up the phrase "killer apps" in my brain somehow.
Nope. I was a kid around the 80s/90s and we had no dedicated computer teachers; although universities probably had access to those types of publications. That information was pretty niche in Australia for regular people, especially kids, and we were always at least 2 years behind the US on everything.
Ahem IRC...
Oh, true. Those bots were not clutter though, IMO.
Haha this thread is bringing back memories.
This frikkin keygen is broken and I can't find the bloody exe I need to use to overwrite the original