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The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > SA's Front Page Discussion > Nostalgia for the internet's younger days: 1999's most pirated files.
 
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Chairman Capone
Dec 17, 2008

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.

...which really wasn't the point of the article, but I started getting nostalgic.

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?

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Chairman Capone
Dec 17, 2008

BlueBlazer posted:

Also emule was the poo poo/is poo poo

Man, that's something that hasn't crossed my mind in like a decade.

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