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[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Old me has graduated to videos

[–] dhruv3006@lemmy.world 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Hehe - those were the days my friend - we thought they would never end - we sing and dance forever ----

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 1 points 6 hours ago

I miss those days. The internet used to be fun. Now it’s shitter this, tiktwat that. Ugh.

[–] Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 3 points 18 hours ago

Excuse me, but it is "breaking the law". Rob Halford is a proper Englishman who does not say "breakin'".

[–] zeroConnection@programming.dev 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Oh yeah, I remember when we upgraded from dial up and the speeds were so fast I could download a new song while listening to another. Non-stop music!

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Streaming but extra steps bit freeeeeee

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I paid for the internet, the 486, the power, and the apartment. I had to download napster and use it. that took time which could be exchanged for money.

Oddly enough it was the same federal minimum wage during Napster time as is it is now.

How was that "free" ? Free certainly had high price requirements.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You ran Napster on a 486? I was on a Pentium 200MMX in that era.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If you had pentium money you could have been at Sam Goody buying the damn CDs! Your punishment in hell will be tenfold.

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 1 points 6 hours ago

Hell it’s decades later and I still don’t have Pentium money lol

[–] Damage@feddit.it 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nah, 486s were old by the time Napster was out.... The first Pentium IIIs were coming out then I think

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 0 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Napster and the PIII released in 1999

[–] Damage@feddit.it 1 points 11 hours ago

I think I did in fact first use it on my PIII 450MHz running win 98 maybe in 2000 or 2001. It feels like it must have been before 9/11.

[–] CallMeAl@piefed.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

ugh this one time i was visiting a friend in nyc. maybe like 2010. she takes me to this party and i see this guy there wearing a limewire shirt. so i go up and ask him bro do you work for limewire? he says "naw man but i used to" and my mind is blown so i ask him what it was like and he thinks for a sec and then he says "it was wild man" and i didn't even know what to say after that.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The '90s were a lot of fun too. As I stare down the barrel of my 60th birthday next month, and watch the U.S. collapse and the world unravel, I can't help but be nostalgic about the mid-90s through about 2015, which in my opinion was peak America.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Imagining the progression of the US as a chart, the post-2015 era would not be so much a slope, rathee a cliff. It's absurd how rapid thing have declined.

On a positive note - good luck on your 60th, hope you have a grand one.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] klu9@piefed.social 1 points 19 hours ago

Jefferson Davis won.

[–] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

Thank you so much! I'm having a bit of a renaissance. After exiting an unhappy marriage and spending several years recovering my mental and physical health, I'm in the best physical shape of my life and am having a lot of fun. While the state of world affairs is depressing, I'm moving forward with my plan to exit the U.S. and move to New Zealand for a fresh start.

[–] ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That was basically my childhood and it was pretty cool. I got to grow up with a lot of the crazy cool tech before it was [fully] inshitified. I was poor, so i didnt really own it, but experiencing things like the progression from gamecube to, the wii, xbox kinect, and then oculus vr and google daydream was incredibly cool.

[–] ArchsageRamases@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I'm 31 but I agree

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 8 points 1 day ago

Arrr matey, the law means nothing in the high seas of the these internets nowadays. Curse ye land lubbers and yer subscriptions.

[–] X@piefed.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] valar@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

What we're dealing with here is a total lack of respect for the law

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It wasn’t though, not until Lars.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That was a civil case. Copyright infringement absolutely was illegal before that.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

Yeah I mean obviously

[–] wizzkidd@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Damn. Sometimes i wish for a utopia tomorrow. Cause i dont wanna work on what i dont wanna work on.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wtf. Two Beavis and Butthead memes back to back in my feed posted by two different users to two different communities. What kind of glitch in the matrix fuckery is going on here?

[–] ArchsageRamases@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Now most just downlode off youtube, lol. I like collecting CDs but many artists don't do them anymore.

[–] ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I do both. i buy cds at shows when i can. I also scour used and new music stores for stuff. Then for albums i really love, i get them on vinyl. I get most of my music from bandcamp though and if an artist only has stuff available on streaming or its from a mega producer, i will rip it off youtube

[–] ArchsageRamases@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Same 💯🎶🎧

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 0 points 23 hours ago

If we were discussing this on a different instance I could give you better options.

I must be old. I don't think it was even illegal yet when I used it

[–] Thatuserguy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is this that chainsaw man fellow I keep hearing the kids talk about?

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 1 points 1 day ago

You might be thinking of Scarface.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 0 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

I literally just had this song stuck in my head like ten minutes ago. This is fucking freaky. Do I have a brain chip that no one told me about?

[–] bob_lemon@feddit.org 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

We tried to tell you via the brain chip, but we kept getting 503s because it was busy putting songs into your head.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 hours ago

Can you at least set it to Jimi Hendrix and quit inserting all those intrusive thoughts about weird stuff?

[–] Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

So much for this golden future...

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 hours ago

The only thing golden about this future are the showers trickling down from the billionaires upon us peasants.

And I'm not talking about the noble metal...