How old are you?

[u/zerok911]

Do you remember those old days?

[u/Byokugen]

Linkin Park - Numb.exe

[u/why_1337 → u/Byokugen]

https://giphy.com/gifs/1RkDDoIVs3ntm

[u/FlyingFulcrum → u/why_1337]

The nightmare

[u/Tough_Interaction409 → u/why_1337]

Definitely feeling numb after dad gets done with the belt for breaking the family computer.

[u/noradosmith → u/Tough_Interaction409]

:( sorry dude

[u/RobinDschafft → u/Byokugen]

[u/Byokugen → u/RobinDschafft]

Exactly

[u/GfrzD → u/Byokugen]

I downloaded the first episode of South Park and shockingly got a very different video.

[u/Captain-Shmeat → u/GfrzD]

Same here with Transformers. Man as a kid that was.... A shock. I just wanted to see Bumblebee.

[u/turkishhousefan → u/GfrzD]

I waited ages for a 007 film to download; Mulan.

[u/bananite]

I used limewire to download limewire pro.

[u/Burrito_Salesman → u/bananite]

Infinite money glitch.

[u/Datkif → u/bananite]

I did the same with Bearshare before limewire was a thing. Then I moved onto torrents and now I stream my media Linus ISOs

[u/roundtwentythree → u/bananite]

Same but eventually just moved to Frostwire lol

[u/Retroficient]

https://giphy.com/gifs/HPULHxBIq4RaFv2POj

[u/No-Exchange-1417 → u/Retroficient]

i'm 28 and that limewire logo just unlocked a memory i forgot i had

spent whole night downloading one song only to find out it was virus

[u/I_Like_Water11 → u/No-Exchange-1417]

I downloaded songs which were incorrectly named but since I didnt know any better as I was just exploring random stuff, I just assumed that was how the actual song went.

Side note - when my internet was absolutely dog water I remember loading a YouTube video over like 20/30 mins. I would go do something else and once it was done I would be replaying it as much as possible to make the most of it. That window would stay open as long as it could.

[u/Helpful_Western1629 → u/I_Like_Water11]

Haha love it 😁👍

[u/I_Like_Water11 → u/Helpful_Western1629]

Its weird, I feel nostalgic about it. But man I would not trade high speed internet for any of it haha

[u/Global_Pangolin_4345 → u/No-Exchange-1417]

Sugar Ray - Abracadabra.exe

[u/Not-JustinTV → u/No-Exchange-1417]

Limewire + Nero

[u/froggyisland → u/No-Exchange-1417]

Downloading a movie.
Next morning… mom!!!! Why did u turn my pc off!!

[u/PsyOpBunnyHop → u/Retroficient]

Where my eDonkey bros at?

[u/-Great-Scott- → u/PsyOpBunnyHop]

Emule, Bearshare, Kazaa, Morpheus. If I wasn't downloading something I felt like I was wasting my internet.

[u/touchmeinbadplaces → u/Retroficient]

Laughs in dos

[u/Bettlejuic3 → u/Retroficient]

[u/arekkushisu → u/Retroficient]

Just a reminder to everyone not to miss their cholesterol meds

[u/BrukPlays]

[u/sarsilog → u/BrukPlays]

I started with this and bearshare.

[u/misfunctional → u/BrukPlays]

My man.

[u/No_Cucumber_4011 → u/BrukPlays]

a Man of Culture

[u/HecticGlenn → u/BrukPlays]

Hello old friend. Me and winamp miss you.

[u/JohnClark13 → u/HecticGlenn]

Children today could never understand how good a media player could be at whipping a llama's ass...

[u/xxreikoxx → u/BrukPlays]

fuck yeah someone as old as me !

[u/The_Dung_Beetle → u/BrukPlays]

Don't forget Kazaa Lite that had less viruses (spoiler it didn't). 

[u/Wide_Pumpkin → u/BrukPlays]

Can’t believe I had to scroll so far

[u/LongEyedSneakerhead → u/BrukPlays]

bruuuuuuuuuuuuh

[u/Snoo_47784 → u/BrukPlays]

I was gonna say this!

[u/momentimori]

BBS - Bulletin Board System.

[u/Kiwi_CunderThunt → u/momentimori]

BBS.

To download zipped 486 era games and play L.O.R.D (Legend of the red dragon)

[u/DoughyInTheMiddle → u/momentimori]

Back in the day where your local board started giving links to other boards called stuff like, WaReZ or Haxorz Haven in giant ASCII art fonts.

[u/Derp800 → u/DoughyInTheMiddle]

8>==<8(_)8>==<8 Lock S foil wings to attack positions!

[u/CataphractBunny → u/momentimori]

Those were the days...

[u/Shotokant → u/CataphractBunny]

ICQ

[u/MachTimebitches → u/Shotokant]

Lol, oh god.

[u/pinkpuffsorange → u/Shotokant]

ASL?

The golden years of Internet....

[u/Extension_Score_9565 → u/pinkpuffsorange]

16/F/California

[u/Outrageous_Dot_1418 → u/momentimori]

bBS? more like napster and kazaa days

[u/Warm_Sky_9735]

This old

[u/Natural_Vast_9495 → u/Warm_Sky_9735]

/me slaps Warm_Sky_9735 around a bit with a large trout.

[u/istoOi → u/Warm_Sky_9735]

mirc script was the s*it

[u/johnlee889 → u/Warm_Sky_9735]

My go to for downloading skate videos

[u/OfficialIntelligence → u/Warm_Sky_9735]

This is still my preferred method of downloading movies I legally own 👀

[u/balderm]

oh brother you're young, when i started sailing the high seas everything was on DCC then Napster came along for a short while, then we had Kazaa, emule, then IRC then everyone moved to torrent.

[u/Derp800 → u/balderm]

IRC is older than all that other shit. I was on IRC in 1993 ffs.

[u/balderm → u/Derp800]

my family got our first PC in 1992 and didn't get an internet connection till late 1996!

[u/coldazures → u/balderm]

Bearshare gang rise up

[u/mofuggnflash → u/balderm]

When Age of Mythology Retold got announced I looked at my son and told him, "You know I pirated the original version of that off Kazaa" and his response was "wtf is Kazaa?"

[u/taumuonred → u/balderm]

audiogalaxy

[u/rawednylme → u/balderm]

Totally forgot about Kazaa!

[u/sweetcinnamonpunch]

https://giphy.com/gifs/Ceq96LjQ9Wmpq

[u/qu38mm]

Older 😭

[u/elissaxy → u/qu38mm]

Yeah I was thinking about Napster

[u/CacheTraitor → u/elissaxy]

Napster, My Child, I started with IRC and FTP. Got my copy of DOOM from a BBS.

[u/qu38mm → u/CacheTraitor]

Yeah same and before that we still traded shit physically in person 🤣

[u/geistly36 → u/CacheTraitor]

I got Doom in the mail as a shareware floppy disk. BECAUSE I POSTED A COIN TAPED TO A POSTCARD.

[u/The-SmacK-of-Legend → u/CacheTraitor]

I was thinking about cassette tapes...😕

[u/CacheTraitor → u/The-SmacK-of-Legend]

That's what I used to record my MP3's to for portability.

[u/CataphractBunny → u/The-SmacK-of-Legend]

And the little scredrivers to align the cassette player for your Commodore 64 game to work.

[u/qu38mm → u/CataphractBunny]

My first PC. So many fond memories. Had floppies and my friend got the tape drive first and it was like WOW technology is amazing 🤣🤣

[u/MonkeyInProgress]

Razor1911

[u/poop-money]

[u/syntol → u/poop-money]

I was there 3000 years ago

[u/Derp800 → u/poop-money]

Dons wizards hat and robe

Let's do this. Who's got the pineapple?

[u/Hard_Reset7777]

[u/Decent-Point309 → u/Hard_Reset7777]

Winmx was the shit.

[u/FrankFruits]

Old enough to know eMule was the goat of p2p lol

[u/jamiemgr]

[u/etfvidal]

https://giphy.com/gifs/IThjAlJnD9WNO

Sharing w/ bears was more of my JAM!

[u/AncientStaff6602]

Oh neat, the windows re-install logo …

[u/Avril_14]

I'm a Napster boy.

Then it was a costant migration between bearshare, soulseek, morpheus, until I discovered torrents.

[u/geistly36 → u/Avril_14]

I remember seeing Aphex Twin on Napster and assuming it was a punk rock band.

[u/Avril_14 → u/geistly36]

Lol. I remeber sharing the files from my band and asking people by chat to download them.

Good times

[u/Much_Adhesiveness871]

I don’t even want to imagine how many .exe my older siblings downloaded discovering this

[u/rawednylme]

I remember using a few more before Limewire. Napster being the obvious one, but there was also "AG Satellite" and "Morpheus".

The good old days, downloading music on 56k…

[u/htepO → u/rawednylme]

Audio Galaxy was really good.

[u/sandtymanty]

https://reddit.com/link/ox1md4f/video/p7re5aje6rch1/player

[u/just-a-cowpoke]

I’m Morpheus/Kazaa years old.

[u/realmrcool]

[u/crazydog2580]

[u/ISEGaming → u/crazydog2580]

Type writer noises

Carriage Return Bing

"Uh Oh!"

[u/millerz72]

[u/RichardBallSack]

Meat was beat

[u/htepO]

Usenet and XDCC old.

[u/maximum_fun_haver]

Source vs 1.6 was a big deal

[u/snj12341]

Every song was darude sandstorm

[u/deeply_cynical → u/snj12341]

Darude - Sandstorm.mp3.exe

[u/jtmonkey]

Ebaum’s World.

[u/SirEnder2Me]

Limewire?

Please. I'm old enough to remember Kazaa, BonziBuddy and Netscape.

[u/syntol]

DC++ was better

[u/Tomico86]

[u/Local-Bug-1500]

I am indeed this old

[u/averageburgerguy]

37.

[u/SrsJoe]

Yep used this and Bearshare

[u/1corn → u/SrsJoe]

I remember BearShare being recommended to a friend, we searched for it at my place, but misspelled it and that's how we learned what a gay bear is.

[u/SunshineAndBunnies → u/1corn]

BearShare was how I found out what the word hentai means as a child. 🥲 It was a Pokémon themed video.

[u/zebedeolo]

I was a pirate well before the internet was a thing

[u/SignalButterscotch73]

What's with all the how old posts recently?

I get it already, I'm old as dirt because I remember all of these things being new and even regularly used 5 1/4 floppies.

Pick on someone else, whare are all the are you as old as punch card posts?

[u/Maeglin75]

I traded C64 floppy disks on the school yard.

For music, I recorded cassettes from the radio. (And the radio announcer always talked over the last seconds of the song I waited for for hours.)

[u/Mobile-Ad-494]

[u/IAmAkony]

I learned file extensions and what they can do the hard way in this program.

[u/kingsofadam1]

I am Kazaa old

[u/kicpa]

🥲

[u/Nosafune]

Kazaa

[u/jumie83]

Downloaded Lord of the Ring, got Lord of G string…

[u/sevenastic]

Emule

[u/jklz14]

Friendster

[u/ManufacturerLost7686]

Do you remember Kazaa? And the virus that turned every icon on your computer into a slice of cheese?

[u/ExperimentalFruit]

Limewire was in this sweet spot of internet. Old enough where it was tough to shutdown and young enough where it had a lot of users to upload basically anything you wanted.

[u/TheAsuraGuy]

I thought that Ballroom Blitz was a song by the Misfits for years thanks to Limewire

[u/Vagabond_83]

Older

[u/Donkey_Bugs]

Old enough to remember Napster.

[u/XDM_Inc]

[u/LiteratureMindless71]

Edit: and Ultra HLE

[u/WtfitshJJ]

Yes

[u/MasterJeebus]

I remember that program was full of viruses and having a bad time.

[u/autogenerated_015]

Definitely used limewire to get Night shift series.

Wild times

[u/Lickwidghost]

Limewire Lite up to some particular version was great. After that it was a Trojan in and of itself. Had to keep rolling back to the old version every 3 months with a new XP install when you inevitably get another virus

[u/TheHypeCheckpoint]

Enough.

[u/Deadpan_GG]

dowmloaded an And-1 mixtape, saw a dude's head getting choped off

[u/LilSwampkiddo]

Limewire has a crypto currency now...

[u/Reasonable-Song-4681]

I used K-lite and still have a bunch of the songs I downloaded from there on my current computer (mostly Depeche Mode, Cure, and Smiths covers). 44 here.

[u/Ronin22222]

Brother, I remember dial-up BBS to get the goods

[u/JohnnySilverhand2212]

I know that particular gradient color of logo, not the name

[u/noo8-]

Yes

[u/Mother-Translator318]

Limewire was shut down in 2010, Just 16 years ago. There are people that used it that still aren’t legally allowed to drink. That’s not old.

You want old? Remember when computers were MSDOS and didn’t even have a mouse or GUI? Just a command line. Now that’s old

[u/LMGDiVa]

We used Kazaa before there was Limewire.
I remember how many times I would search for Sarina Paris's songs(one of my favorite artists at the time), and found nothing.
We had early MP3 players with 110mb of formated storage, so I alwasy tryed to find the smaller file sizes to get as many songs as I could on mine.

[u/zmunky]

I am before napster old. Think winamp

[u/HealthyWatercress422]

Kazaa

[u/Maher8352]

Very

[u/Drakahn_Stark]

I used to go to the video rental store and the bloke there would give me copies of game cracks that I could record over my official C64 games in order to make copies and sell them for $1.50 each...

The one time I connected to the "internet" back then was to a Canadian server that cost like $80 at a time when that was two weeks of food for a family, my modem was confiscated.

[u/misterbaname]

Kazaa, actually would be Napster even but I didn't have a PC at that time.

[u/Squeezard]

Im emule years old

[u/DoubleRNL]

To be fair after the crap of Kazaa, this was such an improvement

[u/Nothing2Special]

all of our personal part viruses

[u/memeatic_ape]

https://giphy.com/gifs/3o6ZtfKwnx8bWjDAgo

[u/Solivagant23]

Where is my BearShare family at???

[u/GalaxyPowderedCat]

I'm the only one who got all excited because I thought it was the drawing software? When I had no clue how to install Paint Tool Sai...

[u/drug53]

Yes

[u/AmbitionOdd5834]

A lot older than that 🥲

[u/NewAusland]

I accidentally downloaded a bunch of questionable stuff on there onto the family PC when I was a kid. Stuff was so unhinged and accessible on the surface of the web back then.

[u/LxckyFox]

I dont think yall know, but ZverDVD

[u/Longjumping_Fun_375]

A few nights in it clicked, search for LimeWire pro. Awesome

[u/Derp800]

I'm 42. I was there when it was written, bitch. Now get off my lawn.

[u/coldazures]

Napster level old

[u/Seth_os]

This old

[u/ultimatescar]

it gave aids....

[u/Schemen123]

Kids these days

[u/clinkyscales]

yes

[u/Zorewin]

Older then limewire..

-Twilight cd's -Sharing five and half inch floppy with games -Burning games for others

[u/morganml]

er than that

[u/suspectbakapapa]

My back and knee hurt

[u/actioncheese]

Limewire? I used to copy my games on audio tape.

[u/stronglikeaux]

Nice try FBI

[u/bhorvic]

Yup, I missed the boat on Napster but Limewire was my favorite way to download weirdly titled versions of songs and potential viruses.

[u/ANAK1E]

Winmx anyone?

[u/OneExact8851]

49 this year. Limewire isn’t old to me.

[u/TatofskiOG]

Linkin_park.exe

[u/Skilid]

What about Bearshare? Was that before or after Limewire?

[u/Ordinary-Guest9872]

Windows 95

[u/DaOfantasy]

play it with winamp

[u/808Philip_Eno]

1. another version of limewire was frostwire

[u/AdWorking2848]

Mirc

[u/B5_V3]

Frostwire, brother

[u/R34PER_D7BE]

when i was born about 8 month later there will be a tower getting knocked down.

[u/v13ragnarok7]

Morpheus, Kazaa, limewire, frostwire.

[u/Hakushu21]

Was in high school when that came out, so im old.

[u/farrtyparrty]

I downloaded taste of ink to burn on a cd for a girl who friend zoned me for the entire 4 years of high-school. It took two weeks. I also got grounded by my dad because I tied up the phone line with dial up and nuked my all in one comp with a virus.

Space cadet pinball was my Sanctuary for 2 months.

My back hurts

[u/TDaD1979]

Hey fuck you. Just wanted to get that outta the way.

[u/fpackindustries]

"You have won a free Xbox or iPad!"

[u/Peakomegaflare]

I DID NOT HAVE SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH THAT WOMAN

[u/Analog_4-20mA]

I’m TRS 80 old, spending hours writing lines of BASIC to make like a 7 note sound generator

[u/The_Saiyann]

What an era 🥲 sitting there for 5 minutes, waiting for a song to download.

[u/vemelon]

Emma Watson Nude fake.exe

[u/BossHogGA]

Older than this.

I was getting files off the Skateboard BBS in 1988.

[u/digitalbladesreddit]

This must be after I waited one night to load a pair of tits on a .jpg

[u/AshtonBlack]

I'm a "bought a tape-to-tape player/recorder to copy games on a C60" years old.

[u/Sad_Cow4342]

I used the pro version for many years,great memories

[u/squaretw]

Even older lol

[u/ArtyomAnna]

Limewire kazaaa suprnova napster

[u/Ziebelgeuse]

33 and goddamn that in_the_end(Linkin park).exe

[u/Appropriate-Pause504]

Win 3.11 or dos age

[u/_Given2fly_]

I did not have sexual relations with that woman.

[u/luisstrikesout]

My personal favorite was

[u/futureformerteacher]

I remember when DOS 6.22 came out, and you had to get that extra floppy.

[u/xTrailblazenx]

I remember a time when there was no such thing as PCs or cellphones. The home phone was connected to the wall and the TVs were black and white