🍹Early to RISA 🧉M to Greentext · 23 hours agoAnon gives a piracy history lessonimagemessage-square159fedilinkarrow-up11.21Karrow-down121
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minus-squareDr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up67arrow-down2·edit-223 hours ago2007? Anon is a sweet summer child.
minus-squarebobs_monkey@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up28·21 hours agoOP forgot Napster, as well as the p2p networks of old like WinMX, Kazaa, etc, nevermind Usenet.
minus-squareRetro_unlimited@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 hours agoThere was even search terms for finding open servers on search engines such as: “parent-of” “open-directory” MP3 AVI etc
minus-squarePagPag@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up20·21 hours agoAdd LimeWire and BearShare to the list for nostalgics.
minus-squareDr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·21 hours agoEven before that, BBS, WaReZ sites, IRC. Dialup internet wasn’t a problem when RAR files could be split up for a release.
minus-squarecurbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·21 hours agoIRC was a wild level of automated for its time too
minus-squarecobysev@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·23 hours agoI’ll say. I was sailing the seas back in the late '90s. By 2007, I had amassed quite a hoard of treasure.
minus-squareshawn1122@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36·23 hours agoMotherfucker was unborn while the rest of us were downloading Darude - Sandstorm on Napster.
minus-squarechemical_cutthroat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·22 hours agoDo not cite the deep magic to me, I was there when it was written.
minus-squareKnightontheSun@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·19 hours agoThe first rule of Usenet is….
2007? Anon is a sweet summer child.
OP forgot Napster, as well as the p2p networks of old like WinMX, Kazaa, etc, nevermind Usenet.
There was even search terms for finding open servers on search engines such as: “parent-of” “open-directory” MP3 AVI etc
Add LimeWire and BearShare to the list for nostalgics.
Even before that, BBS, WaReZ sites, IRC. Dialup internet wasn’t a problem when RAR files could be split up for a release.
IRC was a wild level of automated for its time too
Shared drives on a LAN!
I’ll say. I was sailing the seas back in the late '90s. By 2007, I had amassed quite a hoard of treasure.
Motherfucker was unborn while the rest of us were downloading Darude - Sandstorm on Napster.
Nah, AudioGalaxy. Or DALnet.
eDonkey
Do not cite the deep magic to me, I was there when it was written.
FTPs
One word. Usenet
The first rule of Usenet is….