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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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