It’s amazing Limewire didn’t destroy the entire western PC market.
Documents that are actually malicious .exes.
Hollywood movies that are actually scat/CP/gore.
Game installers that are actually viruses.
Popular bands .mp3 songs that are actually Wesley Willis.
… on second thought. the last one was OK.
Rock over London Rock on Chicago Wheaties, breakfast of champions.
Rock roll mcdonaldssssss
I discovered file sharing in the early days of Napster. When that went away a lot of people flocked to Limewire, but after trying it for a night or two I said “no way, José” and never opened that crap application again, polluted with spam and fishy files.
Right around this time, Audiogalaxy started growing, and that’s the first time I came across a game-changing feature: you could resume a download even after you had been accidentally booted from the dial-up connection! This was astounding to me at the time, like magic to my primitive mind.
Porn that was that middle eastern dude getting his head cut off
Wesley Willis is a GOD what the hell is he doing on this list of “bad things?!”
I was a dumb kid but even I recognized the 7kb zip files that showed up no matter what I searched for probably weren’t legit.
Heather!!!
The GOAT
The throat goat one might say
She’s the Deep-throat queen ay?
100%.
The goat of the early internet.
Wonder what happened to her… It’s weird to think she’s at like a Costco wondering if she really needs the 3pack of relish or whatever
Especially if there is some 30 something your old dad next to her wondering the same thing, as well as whether he recognizes her as the chick that he cranked out absolute gallons to as a teenager
Taylor Rain became a realtor. I bet every guy that sees her walk in instantly thinks they’ll get to ass fuck her if they buy a house. It’s probably on her business card.
She paved the road for all who swallowed.
I remember as a kid i downloaded something weird. It was porn, but possibly child porn so i deleted it, and then panicked like i might get swatted, but i didn’t want to reformat my computer so i hid my hard drive waiting for the police to search my house
Suuuuuure
Friend “Hey popular film is on limewire!”
Me - itll be porn
Friend “Nah”
…
It was porn
Man I miss having a Turbo button on my computer.
Reminder to get a colonoscopy gramps
Heather the og
Sauce: https://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=f5baaf2efae2ab8e2964
I kinda miss the days when the internet was all www.[thing that you want].com
I remember getting in trouble when I was a kid because I had a friend around, and my dad found www.pokemonpornography.com in the browser history. A part of me was mortified, but another part was “wtf that’s all I need to do to find this shit?!”
That sparked the curiosity that led me to study Computer Science and become a Software Engineer.
I downloaded so much bizarre stuff, the browser on our family computer must’ve had like 4 separate toolbars.
Only 4? Those are rookie numbers.
Can’t say I miss the toolbars or IE7 but I do miss the world they came from. I really wish I explored more of that internet instead of just the endless Dragon Ball Z fan sites and pages and pages of crappy HTML with photos of papercraft creations. Although I am glad I got to see those.
I was a help desk technician in the xp era and you just triggered my ptsd. Thanks for that.
Bonzai Buddy!
that is a name i haven’t heard in a long time.
15min download on Netscape just to see some .jpg tiddies
Between Napster and Limewire I legit screwed up my families second computer. In my defense, they bought it with Windows ME so it wasn’t that great to begin with.
Ahh hey we had one of those printers!
I can’t say it was very reliable, but printers haven’t changed on that front. At least it didn’t bitch and moan for internet access so it could constantly nag you with bs about setting up a subscription
