memes

I started college with a 1.44 MB floppy disk in my pocket and graduated with a 1GB USB stick.

The only thing this meme is missing are the Wendy's napkins in the glovebox of my 1991 Pontiac Sunbird that I give my ex-girlfriend to blot her eyes after this latest mix cd is finally the one to blow her fucking mind

Ah lime wire, get a song and three random viruses for free

Shiiit I had to block people at work from running bearshare and limewire

We didn't really have the right equipment for it. It was early enough in Windows that I couldn't adequately secure the developers from running crap on their workstations.

I eventually managed to get our antivirus to flag the DLLs for the applications as viruses, that caused a little bit of an uproar.

I’m monochrome cga screen old. Commodore VIC 20, Philips MSX, Video 2000 old.

Yes, fuck you

I remember feeling like such a badass when I got a CD player that could read MP3 files burned to a disc. I'd have an entire band's discography burned to a single disc and felt like some sort of musical library with my binder full of MP3 CDs.

My first mix tapes were cassettes recorded from the radio.

That one time I got an executable online that made girls strip on my desktop was great. Of course, the spyware and virus crap that was secretly behind it was not. I think that was the first time I did a full reinstall of Windows for the first time. Good times.

Burning CD's, ripping CD's with programs to remove the protection and save songs as MP3...

Anyone remembers cracks? You would replace a couple of files in the game folder and you could run a game without the CD, or a pirated version. These days with the online crap that is much more difficult. Or the serial number generators for some games or software because some genius found out how the software checked the number?

Zip drive!🙋‍♂️

I'm hooking two vhs players together to commit piracy old.

People in the thread are talking about limewire, but I think they are missing the bigger reference here.

Downloading games, burning them onto CD-Rs and then using a Sharpie to make the inner tracks of the disc unreadable as they contained the copy protection.

My only confusion is that I swear it was Playstation and not PC that worked like this.

...I'm older.

...Oregon Trail older, motherfucker.

Lime wire?

Try newsgroups

Old enough to have a 286 as a first PC. But more on topic, I remember a time before Limewire and Bearshare. A time before Napster. MP3s were downloaded from IRC or from websites found with AltaVista or WebCrawler.

To play those MP3s? Winamp wasn't out yet. Fraunhofer Winplay3 was your only option. It had to be cracked and pirated as well. Want to multitask while playing an MP3? How about your music cutting out instead?

You don't know old until you've had to change the IRQ for your sound card because wolf3d.exe's settings were different than swotl.exe.

Dusty old bones. Frog Bog, Las Vegas Poker and Blackjack, Truckin and B-17 Bomber

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So, shortly after checking aboard the first fast-attack submarine I served on, in April 1991, the boat was locked down one evening, when the engineer couldn't find his Zenith SuperSport 286e computer. Suspecting someone stole it, the boat was locked down and searched - for 3 hours. Everyone was really angry... It's 2025 and I remember it well.

Anyway, after 3 hours or so, at the Captains insistence, the ENG, doing paperwork in his stateroom, let someone else in, to look for his computer. There it was, sitting plain as day, on his bunk, where his pillow should have been. The ENG said he didn't notice it, as he thought it was his pillow...gross, considering everyone else's pillowcase was white.

The Captain immediately lifted the lockdown, and all the off-duty people went home. The anger lingered though, and the Engineer seemed to have a dark cloud over his head. He was fired a few months later, and I've always wondered if it had something to do with that computer - I was just too new to know anything about the guy, and I didn't work in engineering.

Kids, I played Leisure Suit Larry on a Macintosh II

People need to relax. This isn't even old. What's wrong with getting older anyway?

I still have my 2005-2008 era Sony Vaiao in the garage at my parents house. If it booted up, I'd probably still have limewire running.

I need to wear a knee brace or use a cane, and I'm not even exaggerating.

I remember getting a ton of mp3 with kazaa which was shut down, replaced by limewire.

Then all my mp3 disappeared from my pentium replaced by a copyright rar file.

I hope they paid for winrar...

Why must you do this to me. I'm already having a shit day and now you remind me that I was there when CDs replaced floppy. god dammit.

Yes