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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
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 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.
You also downloaded 5 offensively funny songs wrongly attributed to Weird Al.
Dr. Demento - Windows 95 sucks (Bob Rivers)
and
R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders - My Girl's Pussy
"I'm the Only Gay Eskimo", by Tenacious D (Kevin swears it's them)
Bonus stat: Your dad picked up the phone 7 times while you were doing the internet.
In 2007? Damn I feel sorry for you
My grandparents still had dial-up in 2016.
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)
Only 8 viruses for 1102 songs?
That's definitely fake
Yeah, the banner ads on MySpace alone would give you more viruses than that from a single page.
Most the XP machines I had to wipe back then probably had more lines of malware code than OS.
Feels like 8 viruses were standard with any Limewire / Kazaa install! Lol
I miss Audiogalaxy and its satellite.
Or you tried to download any movie and it was - surprise - Fight Club, again!
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.
Soulseek is still around. Nicotine+ is a great client for it. It’s perfect for music and ebooks.
Bodies_hit_the_floor_teenage_wasteland.mp3
Bodies_hit_the_floor_teenage_wasteland.mp3.exe
I never wrapped my Limewire. Raw-dogged it the whole time!
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.
Soulseek is the current best alternative for music downloading. No viruses disguised as music, afaik
No viruses disguised as music, afaik
How would that work? For games or software in general, something executable, I get it, but content beside mind blowing proof of concept, I have a hard time codecs can be hijacked so that such a payload gets to do anything via e.g. VLC or mpv.
Back in kazaa/limewire times, search for any music would always return a bunch of .exe files, like Metallica - Fade to Black.exe. A lot of people learned the difference between file extensions the hard way
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.
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.
Fun fact: soulseek is still running, and you can use nicotine plus today. Still one of the best places for music sharing.
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.
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.