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http://www.somethingawful.com/news/pirated-1999-files/ I imagine there is some type of statute of limitations on discussing early exposure to  , right?1999 was now 16 years ago, which means that the average college student, and maybe the average goon, wouldn't quite get the joke here, because these were pretty much what went around in 1999. Like the joke about the Phish version of Gin & Juice: there was like four years when we all believed that System of a Down wrote a novelty song about The Legend of Zelda. And a time when a 50 kB image of Anna Kournikova would have been considered really high resolution.
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I was born in 93 but I can still remember the 'glory' days of kazaa piracy, so I managed to get a bunch of the jokes.
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"Gin & Juice cover by Phish (actually by System of a Down) (actually Ben Folds).mp3 (Actually the original by Snoop Doggy Dogg)" This one killed me. There used to be so many mis-named .mp3's and this one in particular was always being passed around. Everyone you asked thought the song was by a different artist and was %100 sure they were right. "The artist is right there in the file name!".
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Jonad posted:I was born in 93 but I can still remember the 'glory' days of kazaa piracy, so I managed to get a bunch of the jokes. I remember when a friend told me, on AIM, about this new thing called "Napster". It seemed like a scam, and thought his AIM was hacked, so I asked him a bunch of questions to establish his identity. That must have been...1999, or 2000, that Napster came out?
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Look at Jeff K, the world's greatest h4x0r. A blast from the past indeed. I didn't have any internet access in 1999, but it's still close enough to my early internet experience. Fun article.
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Gillian Anderson's head photoshopped onto every conceivable shape, size, and color of nude woman
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glowing-fish posted:http://www.somethingawful.com/news/pirated-1999-files/ Man, people still kinda believe it was done by System of a Down. There's people still uploading videos of it to youtube and giving SOAD credit. I mostly remember how every funny song on Napster was attributed to Weird Al, even when it sounded nothing like him or was laced with profanity.
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20matar posted:Look at Jeff K, the world's greatest h4x0r. A blast from the past indeed. I didn't have any internet access in 1999, but it's still close enough to my early internet experience. Fun article. The article is a bit anachronistic, and not just in details. P2P wasn't widely used in 1999, it was more a 2000-2004 thing. When I first got on the internet in 1998, I wouldn't have known how to get warez, and I really wouldn't have needed to. That was in the era of direct downloads, and just going to random pages. At least for me, in 1998, when I got on the internet, downloading ANYTHING was a thrill. I wouldn't have needed pirated games, because a 100 kB clone of Donkey Kong that someone put together for a hobby was just as exciting. ...which really wasn't the point of the article, but I started getting nostalgic.
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John Dyne posted:Man, people still kinda believe it was done by System of a Down. There's people still uploading videos of it to youtube and giving SOAD credit. Back in 2000 a friend of mine made me a CD of They Might Be Giants songs he found on Napster. Not a single one of them was actually done by the band. I was more impressed than disappointed.
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How could you tell the difference between POD music and the parakeet shrieking though.
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If you have never pirated anything through IRC, you are probably too young to get most of the jokes in the article.
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Gorson posted:"Gin & Juice cover by Phish (actually by System of a Down) (actually Ben Folds).mp3 (Actually the original by Snoop Doggy Dogg)" Yeah, that loving file is STILL causing heated debates to this day... I just had one all of three days ago when a girl in my office smugly told me that Phish must have recorded it because it's in the file name. Edit: "Funny Things to Do At Walmart" is missing from the Documents section. Belbos Computer fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Apr 10, 2015 |
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Also that one blurry porn clip with the blonde who was said to be everyone from Jenny McCarthy to Britney Spears
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One thing that was missed was how many times you got something completely different. Downloading Thief? You get Black and White. Ren and Stimpy? Aurora Snow throatfucking video. (my first proper exposure to porn)
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glowing-fish posted:The article is a bit anachronistic, and not just in details. P2P wasn't widely used in 1999, it was more a 2000-2004 thing. When I first got on the internet in 1998, I wouldn't have known how to get warez, and I really wouldn't have needed to. That was in the era of direct downloads, and just going to random pages. At least for me, in 1998, when I got on the internet, downloading ANYTHING was a thrill. I wouldn't have needed pirated games, because a 100 kB clone of Donkey Kong that someone put together for a hobby was just as exciting. Who can forget the fun of waiting in line to download the Tribes demo from FilePlanet? Actually speaking of the Planet _ websites, didn't Fragmaster run Planet Half-Life? Chairman Capone fucked around with this message at 03:03 on Apr 17, 2015 |
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Unless I missed it, there was no reference to Hotline.
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glowing-fish posted:The article is a bit anachronistic, and not just in details. P2P wasn't widely used in 1999, it was more a 2000-2004 thing. When I first got on the internet in 1998, I wouldn't have known how to get warez, and I really wouldn't have needed to. That was in the era of direct downloads, and just going to random pages. The joy of downloading 130 1.44 mb zip files with no recovery files so if any of them is corrupt you just spent a day downloading useless files.
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NihilismNow posted:The joy of downloading 130 1.44 mb zip files with no recovery files so if any of them is corrupt you just spent a day downloading useless files. "A" day? With AOL dial-up, that was my week. I don't miss the 0.7kB/s download speeds that could be killed by a drat phone call.
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poo poo, I remember, vaguely, some of the downloads I would manage via dialup. Did it with Doom at one point when I was like 5.
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I appreciate the internet of today because I know what it was like when it was taking off.
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back when you would start a download on your dial up connection which you got the access from a college friend who got it off his university. You were lucky if you got a 31kbps connection. Then you would set your computer to download that videogame, which would tie up your phoneline for 3 days. ...then after 16 hours, your mom picks up the phone to call someone and ruins your download. Time to start all over again!
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angelklaine posted:back when you would start a download on your dial up connection which you got the access from a college friend who got it off his university. You were lucky if you got a 31kbps connection. Then you would set your computer to download that videogame, which would tie up your phoneline for 3 days. That's why you downloaded one of those FREE DOWNLOAD MANAGER 300% SPEED BOOST programs.
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SnowblindFatal posted:That's why you downloaded one of those FREE DOWNLOAD MANAGER 300% SPEED BOOST programs. That isn't necessary; Bonzi Buddy had that functionality built in.
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Anti-virus software, what's that? Sounds useful. Ok let's run a scan... Oh, you found 400 viruses! That must be why I'm getting pop-up ads every five seconds and my CD ROM disk tray keeps opening by itself.
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Wandering Knitter posted:Back in 2000 a friend of mine made me a CD of They Might Be Giants songs he found on Napster. Not a single one of them was actually done by the band. I was more impressed than disappointed. Yeah, man, I love "88 lines about 44 women", totally their best song.
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[quote="Gorson" post="44386t506"] If you have never pirated anything through IRC, you are probably too young to get most of the jokes in the article. [/quote] Man, that was such a goddamn hassle, wasn't it? A new release would come out or something and you'd have to wait in this horrible DCC queue and in retrospect it was a total nightmare that took a really long time and required inordinate effort, really. It was still better than downloading from kazaa or limewire or whatever the hell at the time. I was considered "the one who knows about computers" in my group of friends, of course, in part because my computer always worked and was fast, and they were always complaining about theirs and asking me to fix it. And I'd go over and take a look and their hard drive would just be littered with all kinds of horrific viruses and crap from downloading sketchy porn off kazaa. Like, over and over this sort of thing would happen. There were so many 14-year-olds in 1999 with unrestricted access to the internet at the time and parents who still really didn't have much of a clue. I sometimes think that those of us who were born from like 1983-1988 or so were born into this really weird cuspy period of time because our adolescence sort of coincided with the adolescence of digital technology. I know that sounds pretentious as hell but I honestly think it's true. I was born in '85, and when I was a kid everything was still mostly pretty analog. PCs weren't really ubiquitous quite yet, any house could get by with just a rotary phone or two, CDs were just showing up on the market, VHS and television ruled the home entertainment industry, and so on. Hell, some people still used antennas. SNES had just come out and was blowing our minds. Monthly magazines were central to pop culture commentary. Everything was so analog, by comparison to today, and I'm only thinking of how things were 20 years ago. But by the time I entered adolescence things were starting to change, and computers were suddenly becoming more and more important, and technology was moving faster and faster, and everything was really changing very very quickly. Just like me! I am sure practically everyone else here had a similar experience. Maybe I'm blowing it out of proportion because people are always changing and so is technology. But I still sort of feel like roughly from 1998 to 2005 or so, there was a hugely rapid degree of growth in technology and tons of things matured very quickly in terms of technology. And I think it's interesting that this coincided with when a lot of us experienced our own personal rapid period of growth from child into adult, ostensibly. And yes this post is pretentious as hell so please excuse that.
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That was wonderfully worded kaworu, and I fully agree. I obviously can't personally know what it was like to grow up in different time periods, but I feel like being born in 82 and coming to adulthood in roughly the 2000's was more surreal. It's like not only have I grown, but how virtually everything is done is different. It's not good or bad, just something that comes with rapid technology advancement. I also think it makes me feel older than I am. For instance if I would tell a teenager , or even someone in their early twenties about how it use to be normal to go all day without being in some form of contact with friends and family, outside of an emergency. I also grew up with the added layer of being in a small town that has grown into a lovely small-mid town. No one will probably ever again know the excitement of having their mom tell them to "grab a book, we are going to walmart" (which ,back in my day, was 45 minutes away). But back on the topic of most pirated files, I remember my first pirated album was Rage Against The Machines Evil Empire and it took for-goddamn-ever. It was in .ra or .ram or some other realaudio format and sounded like poo poo. If I took all the hours I spent trying to download that WHOLE ALBUM , and started raking grass or something, I would have had enough money to buy the cd 10 times over.
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Dr.Caligari posted:But back on the topic of most pirated files, I remember my first pirated album was Rage Against The Machines Evil Empire and it took for-goddamn-ever. It was in .ra or .ram or some other realaudio format and sounded like poo poo. If I took all the hours I spent trying to download that WHOLE ALBUM , and started raking grass or something, I would have had enough money to buy the cd 10 times over. It's the journey, not the destination.
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Born in 1981 here, came up playing ASCII-based pinball on a "portable" tower-sized PC with an integrated 5-inch amber screen and a carrying handle. Eventually my group of friends discovered modems and we started connecting to local BBSes and telneting to assorted MOOs and MUDs at 2400 baud. Yes, poo poo has evolved like crazy, and yes, it feels like we grew up during some kind of significant cusp in human history. I suppose every generation feels that way about something, but there's been some pretty qualitative changes over the last century, and a lot of it really ramped up with the rise of widespread digital computing for sure.
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Reminds me of when I found my old ICQ number a couple years ago. I logged on to see all these offline screen names I hadn't seen in probably 10+ years. Many of them people I no longer know and quite a few I couldn't even remeber who they were. All of them offline, ghosts of a different time and place 
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Yahoo was the most popular search engine back in 1999 and there was also this other search engine named AltaVista, if I wasn't wrong, which I sometimes used. No heretical word called "Googling" since Google hasn't existed..Dr.Caligari posted:Reminds me of when I found my old ICQ number a couple years ago. I logged on to see all these offline screen names I hadn't seen in probably 10+ years. Many of them people I no longer know and quite a few I couldn't even remeber who they were. All of them offline, ghosts of a different time and place
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remember when uTorrent wasnt a tremendous pile of poo poo?
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Section 31 posted:Yahoo was the most popular search engine back in 1999 and there was also this other search engine named AltaVista, if I wasn't wrong, which I sometimes used. No heretical word called "Googling" since Google hasn't existed.. Google existed in 99, it was just an absolute pile of poo poo before they invented AdWords and brought in a gazillion dollars to run their crazy Markov Chain search engine technology. I remember a friend recommending that I use Google when research a project at University in 2001 and telling him that Google was rubbish, before trying it again and realising it had improved massively. The best search engine in the late 90s was Ask Jeeves. I can search 8+ search engines at once? Sorcery!
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Zealee posted:House of the rising son - Led Zeppelin.mp3 so the Jimi Hendrix version?
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