Nostalgia for the internet's younger days: 1999's most pirated files.

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John Dyne: Jul 3, 2005; Well, fuck. Really?

glowing-fish posted:

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.

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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John Dyne: Jul 3, 2005; Well, fuck. Really?

LemonLimeTime posted:

The only thing I ever downloaded off of Napster:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B69ciKJOcOo

The Windows ME edition background in the video is also a nice touch.

COOKIE MONSTER DID IT ALL FOR THE COOKIE - "WEIRD" AL YANKOVIC.mp3

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