🍹Early to RISA 🧉M to [email protected] • 6 months agoAnon gives a piracy history lessonsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square218fedilinkarrow-up11.5K
arrow-up11.5KimageAnon gives a piracy history lessonsh.itjust.works🍹Early to RISA 🧉M to [email protected] • 6 months agomessage-square218fedilink
minus-squarecobysevlinkfedilinkEnglish34•6 months agoI’ll say. I was sailing the seas back in the late '90s. By 2007, I had amassed quite a hoard of treasure.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish37•6 months agoMotherfucker was unborn while the rest of us were downloading Darude - Sandstorm on Napster.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink12•6 months agoDo not cite the deep magic to me, I was there when it was written.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink29•6 months agoOP forgot Napster, as well as the p2p networks of old like WinMX, Kazaa, etc, nevermind Usenet.
minus-squareDr. WeskerlinkfedilinkEnglish20•6 months agoEven before that, BBS, WaReZ sites, IRC. Dialup internet wasn’t a problem when RAR files could be split up for a release.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink8•6 months agoIRC was a wild level of automated for its time too
minus-square@[email protected]cakelinkfedilink22•6 months agoAdd LimeWire and BearShare to the list for nostalgics.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•6 months agoThere was even search terms for finding open servers on search engines such as: “parent-of” “open-directory” MP3 AVI etc
2007? Anon is a sweet summer child.
I’ll say. I was sailing the seas back in the late '90s. By 2007, I had amassed quite a hoard of treasure.
One word. Usenet
The first rule of Usenet is….
Motherfucker was unborn while the rest of us were downloading Darude - Sandstorm on Napster.
Nah, AudioGalaxy. Or DALnet.
Do not cite the deep magic to me, I was there when it was written.
FTPs
eDonkey
OP forgot Napster, as well as the p2p networks of old like WinMX, Kazaa, etc, nevermind Usenet.
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!
Add LimeWire and BearShare to the list for nostalgics.
There was even search terms for finding open servers on search engines such as: “parent-of” “open-directory” MP3 AVI etc