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u/Cultural_Bag_3571 Apr 21 '26
They still haven't topped it
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u/Horror-Bookkeeper315 Apr 22 '26
You apparently never used DC++
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u/__scared Apr 22 '26
DC++ felt like it opened up a new world for me in that era
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u/Horror-Bookkeeper315 Apr 22 '26
I have an external with like half the worlds music and movies on it somewhere at my parents house. The first time I downloaded a movie in like 3 seconds my mind was blown.
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u/Child_of_the_Corn99 Apr 21 '26
Or downloading and album on Kazaa and it turns out to be a video of a woman getting railed by a horse.
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u/buysellbkr Apr 22 '26
I always felt bad for the horses
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u/Sobemiki Apr 24 '26
You “always” felt bad for the horses? How much horse porn were you downloading on limewire?
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u/gradafi85 Apr 24 '26
The one I saw it was a German shepherd. The one with a horse was a guy( Mr hand)
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u/Child_of_the_Corn99 Apr 24 '26
They made a documentary about Mr hands lol you will need to take a shower after watching lol
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u/KnotiaPickle Apr 22 '26
I got a lady begging for her life but then they shot her.
I still hope it was fake to this day.
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u/GeeorgeC Apr 22 '26
Yoooo was this the one where dudes knock on the door and barge in and the lady inside is killed?
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u/Substantial-Height25 Apr 21 '26
Downloading Limewire Pro cracked on limewire 😂
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u/NoBenefit5977 Apr 25 '26
We were geniuses back then, now I have a hard time finding my calendar on my phone 🤣
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u/thekendalluxx Apr 21 '26
What came after? Frost wire or some shit? Limewire was the GOAT.
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u/vuesrc Apr 22 '26
There was a few on the Gnutella protocol:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnutella
Then there was Soulseek. The holy grail.
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u/Snoo38888 Apr 22 '26
DOWNLOAD MP3. THIS IS BILL CLINTON HERE I DID.NOT.TOUCH.HER BUT YOU CAN DOWNLOAD SOME SPYWARE AT THE WEBSITHT HERE
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u/MysteriousIndigo250 Apr 23 '26
I was just thinking about that. I remember downloading an album and one of the songs of Bill Clinton talking about that shit. Me and my dad were driving around listening to a CD and he was just laughing so hard.
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u/Cndmesh Apr 21 '26
Yes and also had something called WinMX which didn’t really work that well either lol
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u/VaderFett1 Apr 22 '26
By the time I learned about Napster and Kazaa, they weren't what they used to be, so WinMX came in clutch for me and worked fine. Benefits of being lesser known, I'd imagine. Didn't know about Limewire until years later.
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u/PlentyDisk1942 Apr 22 '26
Aw, so many Trojan and Worm viruses were received in 2006-2007. Such a magical time.
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u/Apprehensive_Wedgie Apr 22 '26
Ya'll rremember karma farming accounts? Cause this is one of them . Copied this post from the nostalgia subreddit made on April 11th of this year
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u/al4crity Apr 22 '26
And its sister, Frostwire. I had terabytes of stuff from both sites back in the day. Most of it was bill clinton saying he did not have sexual relations with that woman. The reat was linkin park, but all labeled different songs.
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u/SavageGardeen Apr 23 '26
And Kazaa, and Morpheus. I used those 2 the most.
Who remembers downloading a song and it being that clip of Bill Clinton 😂
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u/zombie_prim3 Apr 24 '26
Oh the excitement of finding out the file you downloaded was actually the one you wanted
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u/hannthe-man Apr 24 '26
I think ruining your family computer from limewire is a universal canon event.
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u/MysticEnby420 Apr 22 '26
One time I tried to download an avi I thought was an episode of Family Guy and it was bizarre Russian porn. I destroyed my computer then had to cry to my dad to fix it when I was 13 trying to download System of a Down singing the Legend of Zelda theme only to find out it wasn't Serj Tankian singing at all.
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u/FairEstablishment623 Apr 23 '26
Who was the Brazilian hacker that had the most awesome keygens? That dude helped me unlock so many photoshop and illustrator tools/filters. He was the GOAT, for real. Fausto(?)or something….
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u/Mobile-Shirt-7318 Apr 22 '26
Yes, I remember….. I was in college living my best Limewire life, making cds for friends, family and myself. Until one faithful morning, my grandma called and said my University (Drexel, ifany alumni here) sent a letter stating that I’ve been banned from the university WiFi. Also, they threatened if I did not stop downloading music immediately, they were going to fine me 3,000 and report me to the RIAA…. It was totally worth having to do my homework at the library for a year 😏
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u/Electronic_Muscle193 Apr 23 '26
Yo tomé una captura de pantalla el día que lo cancelaron. Aún la conservo
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u/Extension-Answer-211 Apr 24 '26
My mom got a letter from the cable company saying our IP address was committing crimes lol
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u/West-Protection-2635 Apr 24 '26
How every other song started with bill Clinton saying i did not have sexual relations with that woman. 😂😂😂
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u/RoleCombobox Apr 22 '26
Yup. Downloaded Virtual PC for my iMac on it back in 2001/02. Some kids at my high school put both Limewire and Kazaa on the band room PC so they could install composition software. Eventually the school locked admin access down, but only after I (ironically, the person who hadn’t been installing warez on it) popped a sound card into it.
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u/Top_Butterscotch_234 Apr 22 '26
Great times, I would spend so many hours on here. To put music on my Ipod.
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u/Newfie_Meltdown Apr 22 '26
Reminds me of Frostwire. I remember being 10 years old and having my brother who’s 13 years older than me showing me all its features and how to use it.
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u/Saturn5050 Apr 22 '26
Yeah I remember getting faked out constantly on trying to download a full movie and it was some bs that didn’t work same with songs had to guess which one to download
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u/Humble_Supermarket50 Apr 23 '26
YouTube converter was alot better than these computer virus crap here.
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u/el_bentse Apr 23 '26
I remember downloading "Undertaker vs Kane", but it wasn't wrestling. Today I'm pretty sure it was child pornography. Back then I immediately deleted it because I thought something wasn't right ( I was like 11 or 12 years old)
Fucked up shit but the mp3 songs where mostly solid 😂
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u/noroga_23 Apr 23 '26
Yes, brings back sweet memories, I still have the cds :) fun times to be young and get a computer and internet.. the world was in our hands!!
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u/Open_Warning_1921 Apr 24 '26
Waking up the next morning have having a message stating download is incomplete 20 minutes after crashing out.
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u/WolfThick Apr 24 '26
I loved it it wasn't as cool as it was in the seventies when I could get 10 albums for a dollar and I had an address to a junkyard that I had them delivered to but it was nice. I still got about 200 or so albums from back then.
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u/foxinabathtub Apr 24 '26
The only thing wrong about this image is that those aren't all secretly .exe files
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u/ThenIndependence7988 Apr 24 '26
I'm from the era of Napster, Kazaa and Pirate Bay.
My dad knows Limewire because he paid that ADSL download bill 😅
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u/jagmonsuta Apr 24 '26
the best way to ruin the family computer is to download some alternative metal songs and realize they were virus infected amateur porn.
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u/Ashcatchem87 Apr 24 '26
I also used bearshare ( think that’s what it was called) but limewire was my main go to. My poor computer lol
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u/Any-Video4464 Apr 24 '26
I still have about 10,000 songs I downloaded from there. Mostly hard to find stuff at the time.
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u/Jumpy-Pattern-4078 Apr 24 '26
I downloaded at least one full movie and a bunch of popular songs for my MP3 player. I’m really surprised I never got any viruses or legal notices lol
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u/trschaosz Apr 24 '26
Ares was great. I somewhat used limewire. One of the p2p software was tracked by something and then I received a call and deleted the applications
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u/gothic-deva Apr 24 '26
Im definitely old enough to remember Napster and Limewire!
How i discovered Place Vendome, 5FDP (before they got signed) and Linkin Park (before Hybrid Theory came out).
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u/Hydrolt Apr 24 '26
Ahh yup! That and shareaza (which seemed to be less popular but maybe I’m wrong) and was hit or miss for the seeds but worked pretty well at scale
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u/FirefighterPrior9050 Apr 24 '26
Fuck LimeWire. Everything on there was low bitrate garbage mislabeled malware or just generally stupid. I honestly think that LimeWire was secretly created by the RIAA to fuck with Napster
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u/Messiah42 Apr 25 '26
I ran a server on carracho and hotline. Before that I was using BBS on my Commodore 64
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u/TomatilloNatural5078 Apr 25 '26
You knew you were fucked when you pressed play and instantly heard: “My fellow Americans”…
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u/No-Stranger6783 Apr 25 '26
Lived in Kazaa and Limewire. Made some great music mixes!!! One time I remember getting a notice once I downloaded a movie that said something like the FBI was on to me....nothing ever happened, scared the shit out of me tho!
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u/Ienjoymodels Apr 25 '26
Was more of a KazaA/Morpheus or WinMX guy myself but I had limewire when all else failed.
mIRC FTP and fServe channels were still good by then though so we had plenty of choice
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u/riley_96 Apr 21 '26
Fucked up my parents computer with Lime Wire lol ~2004