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Dixville
Nov 4, 2008

I don't think!
Ham Wrangler
Remember loving Limewire? That was the poo poo back in the day. But every once in a while you'd be mislead into thinking you were downloading slipknot and when you go to listen to it and hear this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxFIGWm9M6w
Those jokers!
Or every parody song was weird al.
Oh and who could forget this classic cover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WryeUFcW1uQ
I saw a video the other day that had this song playing as a ringback tone and it triggered a deeply buried memory.

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Southern Cassowary
Jan 3, 2023

oh cool soad did that legend of zelda song

the funniest of these was when my brother made a mix cd of nickelback songs and someone tagged come as you are as being by nickelback

Toxic Mental
Jun 1, 2019

I remember Kazaa being how I got Jay Z's "H.O.V.A." and burned it to my first CD ever

Also I torrented John Carpenter's The Thing and it blew my mind that you could do that

WAR CRIME GIGOLO
Oct 3, 2012

The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

I'm gah wire

You Are A Werewolf
Apr 26, 2010

Black Gold!

LiNkInG_pArK_nUmB.exe

metallica_discography_.mp3.exe

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

I never used any of those sites cuz I didn't want a virus.

Private Cumshoe
Feb 15, 2019

AAAAAAAGAGHAAHGGAH
bug chase life

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

redshirt posted:

I never used any of those sites cuz I didn't want a virus.

coward

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007


Never caught a virus either

Hackers film 1995
Nov 4, 2009

Hack the planet!

fuckin green day wrote so many great songs. smells like teen spirit - green day. the world is a vampire - green day. so many hits

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

redshirt posted:

Never caught a virus either

I honestly have no answer for this

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

Hackers film 1995 posted:

fuckin green day wrote so many great songs. smells like teen spirit - green day. the world is a vampire - green day. so many hits

how are you so bad at this?

Hackers film 1995
Nov 4, 2009

Hack the planet!

Mumpy Puffinz posted:

how are you so bad at this?

bad at what?

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

I collected friends books of CD's and then would spend a couple days burning them all.

My collection is huge.

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

life, and or asking questions

Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

I downloaded tons of insanely compressed movies that I watched on a lovely CRT monitor in-between playing downloaded rips of games with the voice acting and cutscenes removed so the dl size was smaller from abandonware sites.

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

Mumpy Puffinz posted:

life, and or asking questions

Wow, rude.

Dixville
Nov 4, 2008

I don't think!
Ham Wrangler

Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:

I downloaded tons of insanely compressed movies that I watched on a lovely CRT monitor in-between playing downloaded rips of games with the voice acting and cutscenes removed so the dl size was smaller from abandonware sites.

Hell yeah way to stick it to the loving man

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

redshirt posted:

Wow, rude.

thats what I'm bad at not you

BigBadSteve
Apr 29, 2009

redshirt posted:

I never used any of those sites cuz I didn't want a virus.

https://www.howtogeek.com/205086/beginner-how-to-make-windows-show-file-extensions

maybeadracula
Sep 9, 2022

by sebmojo
where every song was by Weird Al

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007


Yeah I'm not clicking that hot link

Hackers film 1995
Nov 4, 2009

Hack the planet!

Mumpy Puffinz posted:

life, and or asking questions

Hungarian Dances for orchestra, WoO 1, Book 1, No. 5 in G minor: Allegro - green day

Crescent Wrench
Sep 30, 2005

The truth is usually just an excuse for a lack of imagination.
Grimey Drawer
"Gin and Juice (Bluegrass Cover)" by Phish

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

Hackers film 1995 posted:

Hungarian Dances for orchestra, WoO 1, Book 1, No. 5 in G minor: Allegro - green day

:hmmyes:

123123_5
Jan 1, 2024
limewire was loving virus laden piece of poo poo

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Bloodfart McCoy
Jul 20, 2007

That's a high quality avatar right there.

maybeadracula posted:

where every song was by Weird Al

I still say he ghost-wrote that moonman song.

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

123123_5 posted:

limewire was loving virus laden piece of poo poo

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

No poo poo idiot. I did get alot of songs that I burned on to CDs on it tho

Toxic Mental
Jun 1, 2019

Linkin park - come my lady come come my lady your my butterfly sugar baby.mov

(1.8 / 32.2 mb) ~8 hours 34 minutes remaining

123123_6
Jan 1, 2024

Mumpy Puffinz posted:

No poo poo idiot. I did get alot of songs that I burned on to CDs on it tho

music is way too expensive

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Dixville
Nov 4, 2008

I don't think!
Ham Wrangler
If trapped in the closet by r kelly wasn't on youtube I just know limewire would've had my back. At least i think I watched it there. God that was a long time ago.

Vile_Nihlist666
Jan 15, 2009

I'm a special kind of asshole!
I just remember these gems from Napster/LimeWire era:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SmlAWKXpqI


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xba9M6S7IP0



(Credited to Wierd Al, of course.)

Vile_Nihlist666 fucked around with this message at 05:04 on Jan 1, 2024

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

123123_6 posted:

music is way too expensive

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

how come he got probated for this. Music is expensive

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

i used to make good money on the side cleaning the viruses and malware off of family computers after kids installed limewire and all the adware/spyware/toolbar poo poo that inevitably followed

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

The_Franz posted:

i used to make good money on the side cleaning the viruses and malware off of family computers after kids installed limewire and all the adware/spyware/toolbar poo poo that inevitably followed

Dumb rear end millenials.

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

The_Franz posted:

i used to make good money on the side cleaning the viruses and malware off of family computers after kids installed limewire and all the adware/spyware/toolbar poo poo that inevitably followed

thats why I don't click on the (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

lipid
Feb 21, 2001
Outside kick rear end violin solo

SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva

Mumpy Puffinz posted:

how come he got probated for this. Music is expensive

numbers guy is a lunatic in the depressing way not the fun goon way

i remember downloading what i thought was a music video. it was pornography

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

I keep thinking of "Livewire", by Motley Crue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahq4blDfU5s

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Dixville
Nov 4, 2008

I don't think!
Ham Wrangler

SniperWoreConverse posted:

numbers guy is a lunatic in the depressing way not the fun goon way

i remember downloading what i thought was a music video. it was pornography
Younger SniperWoreConverse: dammit I just wanted to see the video for I Wanna Sex U Up what is this filth?

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