Bonus stat: Your dad picked up the phone 7 times while you were doing the internet.
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In 2007? Damn I feel sorry for you
yeah....I had to earn by gigabit fiber.
Oh I got my fiber last year. But in the meantime I at least had ADSL starting 2004 or 2005. In a post-soviet nation at that
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My grandparents still had dial-up in 2016.
I had dial up when using the music sharing software napster/limewire but I think it was like 2002. I had moved on to just torrenting albums by 2007. 2007 seems like a meme for late adopters.
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Somehow it was actually my dad downloading the things and then making me burn CDs of what he got, in 2007 (Yay Nero!) To be fair, he was always downloading a bunch of stuff from our local BBSs in the early 90s, too.
Thankfully we had a second phone line just for that... my folks couldn't get DSL until 2012, and only last year was able to move from DSL to gigabit fiber. (Both because of legislative attempts to bring better internet to rural areas, the local cable monopoly still won't lay cable out there)
When I commented, I completely missed the 2007 part. Was thinking back to Napster / Kazaa days.
I had 128k DSL in 2007 (I think it was called iDSL or something because it was the same line rate as ISDN but could reach further than regular DSL -- I lived out in the boonies).
Between then and 2019, I struggled with various connection methods: worsening DSL, satellite, and 3G). Best I managed was a cell phone signal booster and an old phone with semi-unlimited data where I got a steady ~5 Mbps at a reasonable latency on 3G.
In 2020, right before COVID hit, I finally moved to civilization and had decent cable until I got fiber 2-3 years ago.
Oh, and yeah, we had very similar broadband grants to nowhere. The fiber I got in 2022 was likely what we paid for in 2015.
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Does Limewire still exist? I'm too afraid to check, probably get a virus from just googling it.
It's now the name of a crypto token. Why? I have no idea.
I was thrilled that I cringed my kids by coming up with "rizzmas" and then saddened to find that it, too, is crypto.
The damn coins steal all the names and therefore domains. Your username? Probably a cryptocoin name by now
I couldn't find a coin gor lemmyman, but the ticker for "lemon nation" is "LEMMY".
I think I need to start my own crypto lol
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Soulseek is still around. Nicotine+ is a great client for it. It’s perfect for music and ebooks.
They put a backdoor in the software to disable it, but the underlying P2P network (gnutella) should technically still work. But you shouldn't even try, there's much more active alternatives.
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You also downloaded 5 offensively funny songs wrongly attributed to Weird Al.
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I would give anything to go back to listening to music on limewire. Download times be damned. It was a simpler time.
You can by opting out of the current machinery of music.
I buy CDs and digital music on Qobuz and Bandcamp, and immediately archive it. Instant high quality lossless FLAC. Upload it to my own server and I can stream it on the go if I want. But for now, I also duplicate the effort by syncing the local files to my smart phone. I have complete and total authority over my music purchases. The simple time is now.
On another note, I’ve been thinking about resurrecting my iPod Classic or possibly my iPod nano. The rectangular yellow one. Loved that thing.
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Soulseek is the current best alternative for music downloading. No viruses disguised as music, afaik
Exactly. If you want to go back to pirating songs, just pirate songs wth.
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I still have songs from the early piracy days that were obviously not the artist I was trying to download. I've not identified a couple of them, even to this day.
if you give it to AI you'll get an answer that's also incorrect.
Does it say Weird Al?
I remember every parody saying Weird Al, and online campaigns to have people label things "Not Weird Al" so it would still come up in searches but people would know it wasn't actually Weird Al.
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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.
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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.
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Fun fact: soulseek is still running, and you can use nicotine plus today. Still one of the best places for music sharing.
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Personally just use foobar2000 with my music player and download my music on Bandcamp. I understand some people may find that inconvenient but supporting the artist is important to me.
So, how does the Bandcamp thing work? Can you pay for files that you download and then own?
Absolutely, and you can download them in many formats. For example, very good quality FLAC files.
Yep, pretty much a digital music store. You pay money, you get the music file, often mp3 or lossless, your choice.
And on Fridays all of the money goes to the artist or label (depending on who is actually running the page) and nothing goes to bandcamp themselves. Which is strange but okay.
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I never wrapped my Limewire. Raw-dogged it the whole time!
Or you tried to download any movie and it was - surprise - Fight Club, again!
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I miss Audiogalaxy and its satellite.
I'd wanna see my kazaa wrapped. I used limewire for a while but my large p2p music library was built in the dial up kazaa and emule era.
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Bodies_hit_the_floor_teenage_wasteland.mp3
Bodies_hit_the_floor_teenage_wasteland.mp3.exe
Use Lidarr with Usenet
Soulseek is more than enough when it comes to music in my experience.
Soulseek is fantastic.
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I have been deseperately trying to find a techno song from this era made with sounds of Super Mario bros. It used lots of samples from the water stage song. The song's melody didn't sound like a Mario song at all. It was trippy and energetic and almost hypnotic. I loved it so much.
I'm taking my chances and leaving this here. Maybe it rings a bell to someone in here.
Limewire, kazaa, emule/edonkey, xdcc bots, usenet... Damn the good old days.
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I remember I had a Slipknot song that had a weird audio glitch you could only hear with headphones on. Like a sudden very loud sucking sound. Scared the shit outta me several times.
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