memes

That one time I got an executable online that made girls strip on my desktop was great. Of course, the spyware and virus crap that was secretly behind it was not. I think that was the first time I did a full reinstall of Windows for the first time. Good times.

Burning CD's, ripping CD's with programs to remove the protection and save songs as MP3...

Anyone remembers cracks? You would replace a couple of files in the game folder and you could run a game without the CD, or a pirated version. These days with the online crap that is much more difficult. Or the serial number generators for some games or software because some genius found out how the software checked the number?

Shiiit I had to block people at work from running bearshare and limewire

We didn't really have the right equipment for it. It was early enough in Windows that I couldn't adequately secure the developers from running crap on their workstations.

I eventually managed to get our antivirus to flag the DLLs for the applications as viruses, that caused a little bit of an uproar.

I remember doing that...

last year (besides limewire, I needed some CDs to copy to minidiscs)

laughs in IRC, magnetic disks, and a 486

bruh 💀 my grandpa had me burning CDs for him forever

People in the thread are talking about limewire, but I think they are missing the bigger reference here.

Downloading games, burning them onto CD-Rs and then using a Sharpie to make the inner tracks of the disc unreadable as they contained the copy protection.

My only confusion is that I swear it was Playstation and not PC that worked like this.

Lime wire?

Try newsgroups

I used to pirate games and store them here when I was a kid to play on my commodore 128

Downloading 128kbit mp3 and then converting them to wav and burn on CD. It's all same same right 👍?

I actually remember albums. They were these physical discs that actually existed within our 3D world. Made entirely of vinyl, they played on a modular device designed entirely for their use and their use alone. In comparison, they were close to the same thickness, but considerably larger than even the ancient CD-ROMs were!

And they sounded SOOOOO much better than anything you’ve ever heard.

Well... Yes. But I never used limewire because our Internet was so shit it'd take 25 minutes just to load in a Web page entirely made of just text.

Hell, my daughter used limewire.

Ah lime wire, get a song and three random viruses for free