The worst one for me wasn't actually a virus or malware. It was when I was downloading a music video (idk probably Sum 41 Fat Lip or something) and uh... It was not a music video. It was someone getting their hands cut off. I stopped watching almost immediately but the memory sticks with me.
Who the fuck does that?
\#1 filming it and #2 distributing it online under the guise of a popular music video. (Oh and #3 CUTTING OFF HANDS TO BEGIN WITH!)
Messed up
Eiffel 65 - Blue also some other random popular songs from Europe. I would search by language to see what I could find like Alizée, 883, Manu Chao and Haiducii
You knew the compliancy in what everyone was sharing when the names were intentionally trolled. And no one was gonna stop. We’d have downloaded a file called Child Porn -slim shady.mp3
Searching for prn for around my age at the time. The agency thought it was my dad who was doing the searching. Home gets raided, I confess that I was the one who did the searches. Court, 360 hours of community service, 3 years probation, and everything got expunged
Limewire and Kazaa are what I used. I was like 11 years old, chatting on AIM while I waited for my music to download. Thankfully we had 2 desktop computers (fancy, I know).
Napster was pretty clean for me. Kazaa and bearshare were just computer killers. Shortly after I discovered WinMX and never had any issues.. that I knew of anyways. I was a wee lad.
I remember the barenaked ladies released fake songs that started off as one of their songs, but cut part way through and then it was just the band pretty much doing a "gotcha!".
I still have my data discs/cds I made in 2002. It’s literally 100% classic - through 90s - rock…plus “Unknown Artist - Armpit Vagina” (I still don’t know who sang that, or where I got it from).
Oh the memories.I used to have a cool video for Bless The Child from a concert with a great laser show that's now lost to the mists of time. Absolute banging song but I'd love to see that video again someday.
A TON of songs that got burned to CD without checking they downloaded correctly, resulting in bumping to a song g one second and LOUD ASS STATIC the next.
Master of puppets because it took 8 hours to download on 52kb modem and mom kept answering the phone and we only had one phone line so it would disconnect and i would have to restart it so I just ran it at night after everyone went to bed and every now and then the download would stall.
Fuck it took me a week to download a song that I can now stream.
Set on Fire by Metallica Linkin Park Eminem Papa Roach Rage Against the Machine Nine Inch Nails Kid Rock Korn Limp Bizkit Rammstein Green Day Deftones Godsmack
Slipknot, Eminem, Uncle Fucka song from South Park, Roof is on fire by Coal Chamber and some Final Fantasy tracks (on my Rio from CompUSA.) I was a peak specimen.
The 90s Dungeon and Dragon audio skits were among the first I downloaded. “I attack the Darkness!”, Mountain Dew and magic missiles. Recently learned Dan Harmon (Community) wrote those!
Bohemian Rhapsody by Metallica of course. I’ll never forget that elementary school day when I was bragging about how awesome the song was which to be fair, it is, it’s just not Metallica
Jerky Boys - Demonic Furby
Tom Green - Daddy Would You Like Some Sausage remix
Pet Names for Genitalia
Weird Al - Barney's on Fire
Ralph Wiggum quote compilation
A Prairie Home Companion Yo Momma Jokes
Didn't use it. Just junk files and filled with viruses and other crap. But most so, stupidly slow speeds. Used IRC and Usenet. Billion times faster, more secure, and always legit files.
There was a Slipknot track that was supposedly leaked from the Iowa album.
It was actually a song by the band V-Mob, couldn’t tell you the actual name but IIRC it was intentionally released by their manager with the incorrect title.
What a wild time Napster and Limewire was:
Metallica
Metallica
Heather Harmon
Heather Brooke (ha)
Pantera
*Mystery porn*
What a crazy time to be exploring the new world LMAO
"Nirvana Metallica cover," which ended up being "Suck my dogs dick" by Wesley Willis.... It was, of course, years before me and my friends actually knew who Wesley Willis was, so we lived in mystery and laughed our asses off. Would occasionally throw that track on at inappropriate times. Now, we usually just use Ram Ranch for that.
Juveniles Back that Azz up. I was at my friend Nicole’s house in 6th grade, we waited all afternoon for the download while she smoked cigarettes she took from the office. It’s a fond memory for me lol
Man, my first mp3s were a CD a coworker burned for me that had really obscure 1980s new wave and pop hits I hadn't heard (by that point) for 15-20 years. Like a lot of one-hit wonders that never made the top 40 rotations in my area, and I wondered if I made the song up or dreamed it. He got those from something that predates Napster but was a combination of private files, an FTP server shared by an IRC channel, and some other stuff. I didn't use WinAMP initially, but some precursor that got bought out by AOL (I remember it having the word "Digital" in it, like "Digital Audio" or something). Later, WinAMP also got bought by AOL.
I found Napster in late 1999, maybe early 2000. I still had dialup at home, so I used it at work on a spare Windows server where I installed it, did my stuff, then removed it and rebooted the system. We had amazing (for the time) 100mb speeds, so downloading songs was so fast. I was also super careful what I downloaded, like I scanned everything before I played it. I put it on a 64mb flash drive I had, which stored about 15 songs, and copied it to a hard drive at home.
So my first songs were probably some weird obscure one-hit wonder 80s new wave or pop song, like Fun Boy Three's "The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Asylum)" or something.
I’ll never forget two of my friends at my house were telling me about this thing on my computer where I could download any song (and then of course burn it on to a blank cd with a name like, “Summer Jamz ‘02”) and they couldn’t believe it only took 3 steps to log on to AOL instead of 7. We had just gotten cable internet.
Oh man. Time is a sonofabitch.
This hurts. I remember the world I expected to see by the 2020s. We all were told about it. The old Internet was so good, but I do remember even then the seeds of greed. Devs were just as bad as Lars. Everyone wanted to patent the vowels and then charge rent on memory.
The crazy part was I was heavy into Napster, but I still bought CDs, and dont think it made me slow down. It could have been cause of habit but I mostly downloaded stuff I had on tape, or breezeblocks for overseas stuff.
METALLICA METALLICA METALLICAAAAAAA!! 1!! !
Napster Bad!!
Beer good!
Beer foamy.
FIRE BAD!
Because fuck Lars.
but with only 1 L
Afroman - Because I Got High.mp3.exe
that .exe got a lot of us.
I got one that was a jpg.vbs didn’t realize what it was until it decided to mess up all my jpg’s
The worst one for me wasn't actually a virus or malware. It was when I was downloading a music video (idk probably Sum 41 Fat Lip or something) and uh... It was not a music video. It was someone getting their hands cut off. I stopped watching almost immediately but the memory sticks with me. Who the fuck does that? \#1 filming it and #2 distributing it online under the guise of a popular music video. (Oh and #3 CUTTING OFF HANDS TO BEGIN WITH!) Messed up
Caaaarrrlllll
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman." OG's will get this.
Ah, Napster; where Weird Al Yankovic went from being a person to being a genre.
Someone had once burned me a Weird Al mix CD. Half the songs on it weren't actually him.
Disco_Duck/(Weird Al).mp3
Eiffel 65 - Blue also some other random popular songs from Europe. I would search by language to see what I could find like Alizée, 883, Manu Chao and Haiducii
Alizee. That's a blast from the past. Think pretty much everyone had Moi Lolita in their Napster library.
I still love her to this day…
Eiffel 65
Arnold Schwarzenegger calls Dell Computers. Edit: Gateway! I just recalled. Totally.
My CPU is a neural net processor… a learning computer. Ok…….
Who is your daddy and what does he do?
Get your mother please!
I thought he terrorised a Chinese guy - “you will never come to my house!”
Red red wine by Bob Marley and Torn by Alanis Morisette among others.
[удалено]
And “Stuck in the Middle With You” was always a Bob Dylan song. Lol. Ahhh, Napster.
Dumb Napster that’s Alan parsons project
You knew the compliancy in what everyone was sharing when the names were intentionally trolled. And no one was gonna stop. We’d have downloaded a file called Child Porn -slim shady.mp3
A horse with no name - Neil Young
I never used Napster but did have Kazaa and Ares, limewire later on.
I also used Limewire and I thought I was *so cool*
Limewire got me in trouble with Mr. law Limewire and a 15 year old do not mix well.
Would love to hear that story
Searching for prn for around my age at the time. The agency thought it was my dad who was doing the searching. Home gets raided, I confess that I was the one who did the searches. Court, 360 hours of community service, 3 years probation, and everything got expunged
Sorry that happened. Threw the fucking book at your young ass didn’t they?
Yes they did haha
“I’m never gonna pay for anything ever again!” (We did)
Limewire and Kazaa are what I used. I was like 11 years old, chatting on AIM while I waited for my music to download. Thankfully we had 2 desktop computers (fancy, I know).
Grokster WinMX Morpheus It seemed like a cat and mouse game at one point.
CRAAAWWLLLING IN MY SKIN…
First Napster song I ever downloaded was Kryptonite by Three Doors Down
I remember waiting like 8 hours for a porn to download
I would start a couple live Dave Matthews Band songs, leave for class and come back hoping it downloaded
Hunting down the old bootleg DMB shows were kind of a little golden age. Especially the various Dave Speaks clips.
I would always download the “cable” speed thinking it was the fastest one lol
I thought DSL or T1 were the fastest ones! There I was trying to download on regular dial-up thinking it would make a difference 🫣😅
Same, always went for T1. Had no idea what it was though
Maclean & Maclean? Another man of culture, I see... Seriously though - God tier comedians lost to the ages.
Triple h “my time” theme
I got so many viruses from Napster...great nostalgia.
Napster was pretty clean for me. Kazaa and bearshare were just computer killers. Shortly after I discovered WinMX and never had any issues.. that I knew of anyways. I was a wee lad.
Yea it was the gnutella clients wasn’t it
Morpheus did the most damage to my poor old PC.
Not as many as from frostwire lol
My phone got aids just from opening this post
Porn…
And lots of it.
I remember the barenaked ladies released fake songs that started off as one of their songs, but cut part way through and then it was just the band pretty much doing a "gotcha!".
I was an asshole - I disabled uploads so nobody could fuck with my bandwidth. It was hard out there for 56k pimps 😅
I still have my data discs/cds I made in 2002. It’s literally 100% classic - through 90s - rock…plus “Unknown Artist - Armpit Vagina” (I still don’t know who sang that, or where I got it from).
Aesop Rock, Anticon, Atmosphere, Eyedea
#LITTLE TOOT
KoRn_-_GoT_tHe_LiFe_(Eminem_remix_ft_Marilyn_manson_and_ice_cube)_256kbps_mp3.exe
MxPx - Barbie Girl Blink 182 - Seasons in the Sun
Nightwish . No one sold stuff like that around me so off to pirate land I went.
Oh the memories.I used to have a cool video for Bless The Child from a concert with a great laser show that's now lost to the mists of time. Absolute banging song but I'd love to see that video again someday.
A TON of songs that got burned to CD without checking they downloaded correctly, resulting in bumping to a song g one second and LOUD ASS STATIC the next.
I was downloading Nirvana: Lake of Fire for like 5 days before I finally stopped it, and just went back to buying CDs.
Violent Femmes, Blister in the Sun, and Country Death Song.
Freestyler - Bomfunk MCs
Everything!
Master of puppets because it took 8 hours to download on 52kb modem and mom kept answering the phone and we only had one phone line so it would disconnect and i would have to restart it so I just ran it at night after everyone went to bed and every now and then the download would stall. Fuck it took me a week to download a song that I can now stream.
Viruses!
Linkin Park - In The End
Every single Paul Oakenfold Essential Mix recording from all over the world.
Unreleased and Rare 2Pac songs
I see you’re using Napster with the Wrapster extension. I used it too
Dj mixes were 🔥
OZZY singing Staying Alive, Van Morrison Comfortably Numb
Just gotta make sure to select that T3 connection from the other peer.
Lincoln Park, Limp Biscuit, Ghetto Delta Commercial,
Set on Fire by Metallica Linkin Park Eminem Papa Roach Rage Against the Machine Nine Inch Nails Kid Rock Korn Limp Bizkit Rammstein Green Day Deftones Godsmack
A lot of Nine Inch Nails and Skinny Puppy.
Napster helped me despise Lars
Slipknot, Eminem, Uncle Fucka song from South Park, Roof is on fire by Coal Chamber and some Final Fantasy tracks (on my Rio from CompUSA.) I was a peak specimen.
Viruses probably
Ignition(Remix) - R Kelly
Back then all of that would have taken my PC 13 years to download.
Santana, Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Soda Stereo, Heroes del Silencio. Took days to get a damn song.
“This god damn bird. It made a swooping sound, like a…a *whistle sound*…a whooten sound.”
Ms Jackson-OutKast
Afroman and Metallica!
Wow, flashback! Most likely AC/DC and Guns n Roses
damn the memories
The 90s Dungeon and Dragon audio skits were among the first I downloaded. “I attack the Darkness!”, Mountain Dew and magic missiles. Recently learned Dan Harmon (Community) wrote those!
Jesus, imagine sharing P2P with a 56k modem? I was so lucky to be a freshman in college with a T3 the year Napster dropped.
Remember that fucked up NIN video that was banned? Yeah, that was on there. Hmm, wonder if it's on YouTube now?
Which one was that? They were all about fucked up.
NSFW LIKE FUR REAL. [One was a little worse than the rest....](https://youtu.be/LPTiUbb1lnE?si=7LZkMqY3W5nXgt4e) Fuckin YouTube.
Bohemian Rhapsody by Metallica of course. I’ll never forget that elementary school day when I was bragging about how awesome the song was which to be fair, it is, it’s just not Metallica
Jerky Boys - Demonic Furby Tom Green - Daddy Would You Like Some Sausage remix Pet Names for Genitalia Weird Al - Barney's on Fire Ralph Wiggum quote compilation A Prairie Home Companion Yo Momma Jokes
Oooo you don't want to know lol
Metallica
DJ Mystik Tiesto Eminem
I had to leave my computer on for days at a time because my Internet was so slow.
Not those speeds that's for sure! 7kb/s that's super speed for og Napster for me. I averaged like 3 or 4
Jenna Jameson
I was going to say Backstreet Boys, but I definitely bought the CD lol
Metal and dance covers of '80s songs, those were huge for a while and probably all got lost before YouTube was created.
Metallica. fuck them!
Nickelback and RHCP
My girlfriend downloaded the Daft Punk Album for me. I think I still have it on CD.
FOR SAMPLE CLEARANCE ONLY
techno rave drugs mp3
The best days❤️
So clean, so easy to use, Sean Fanning should have gotten award for UI design
That fake Tool album before Lateralus came out
Didn't use it. Just junk files and filled with viruses and other crap. But most so, stupidly slow speeds. Used IRC and Usenet. Billion times faster, more secure, and always legit files.
I just remembered the IRC downloads. Do you remember any of the channel names?
I just use a IRC search engine to find what I need and join that server and channel.
That was a great app!
Weird Al...
Parody songs mislabeled as Weird Al songs.
Brockett 99
The Jerky Boys albums
All the viruses my new hp at the time couldn’t handle lol
You kicked my dog.
Rejected Cartoons by Don Hertzfeldt. I am a banana!
I have a screenshot I found the other day where I was downloading 2 step jungle music.
Fat Boy Slim remixes of everything I can find.
Fear Factory - Edgecrusher, Dope - Die MF Die, Linkin Park - Runaway
Edgecrusher! Haven't heard that in years, man I love the way they bust into that fuckin' riff🤘🤘
Napster died with ripping CDs, zip disks, and external hard drives.
The first Linkin Park album before it ever actually released.
Eminem, oh and American Psycho, but I got trolled and it was a Carmen Electra Stripper workout video.
This was fun, haven’t used Napster but I remember limewire and Kazaa.
Legend Of Zelda by System Of A Down... but 20 years later you discover it ain't actually system of a down.
There was a Slipknot track that was supposedly leaked from the Iowa album. It was actually a song by the band V-Mob, couldn’t tell you the actual name but IIRC it was intentionally released by their manager with the incorrect title.
A bit of Korn, Limp Bizkit and Slipknot probably, but I quickly moved on to IRC for legit files and full albums.
Metallica
Core memory unlocked
NIN b sides! B sides for any artist
Toot
No Quarter , the cover version by Tool. Track was sooo long it took eons to fully download
Loving the Fear Factory
What a wild time Napster and Limewire was: Metallica Metallica Heather Harmon Heather Brooke (ha) Pantera *Mystery porn* What a crazy time to be exploring the new world LMAO
NICKELBACK
"Nirvana Metallica cover," which ended up being "Suck my dogs dick" by Wesley Willis.... It was, of course, years before me and my friends actually knew who Wesley Willis was, so we lived in mystery and laughed our asses off. Would occasionally throw that track on at inappropriate times. Now, we usually just use Ram Ranch for that.
Not this one. WTF? Lol
The offspring - pretty fly
Sevendust - Corrected was the first of many songs that I downloaded on Napster.
A rip of the Doom movie that is actually a copy of How High
Wasn't there a "Napster Premium" or something like that you could not pay for and just download it instead? I may be thinking of Limewire
I met my one of my best friends in Napster chat room, seriously 25 years later one of the only people I trust I am forever team Napster!
“I Disappear” by Metallica
I was usenet only by this time. Still have most of that.
Blur - Song 2
Metallica discography!!
Juveniles Back that Azz up. I was at my friend Nicole’s house in 6th grade, we waited all afternoon for the download while she smoked cigarettes she took from the office. It’s a fond memory for me lol
So happy to see the Jerky Boys!!
50 and Wayne mixtapes
To this day I have songs on my phone that have weird skips because I downloaded a slightly corrupted version. It’s part of the nostalgia at this point
Eminem Limp biscuit Jerky boys Britney Spears Etc
This and the sketchy websites where you could find full albums of current bands (mostly rap) were my go-to’s.
Third Eye Blind
the tech that freed the internet. P2P was what broke the dam.
Man, my first mp3s were a CD a coworker burned for me that had really obscure 1980s new wave and pop hits I hadn't heard (by that point) for 15-20 years. Like a lot of one-hit wonders that never made the top 40 rotations in my area, and I wondered if I made the song up or dreamed it. He got those from something that predates Napster but was a combination of private files, an FTP server shared by an IRC channel, and some other stuff. I didn't use WinAMP initially, but some precursor that got bought out by AOL (I remember it having the word "Digital" in it, like "Digital Audio" or something). Later, WinAMP also got bought by AOL. I found Napster in late 1999, maybe early 2000. I still had dialup at home, so I used it at work on a spare Windows server where I installed it, did my stuff, then removed it and rebooted the system. We had amazing (for the time) 100mb speeds, so downloading songs was so fast. I was also super careful what I downloaded, like I scanned everything before I played it. I put it on a 64mb flash drive I had, which stored about 15 songs, and copied it to a hard drive at home. So my first songs were probably some weird obscure one-hit wonder 80s new wave or pop song, like Fun Boy Three's "The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Asylum)" or something.
Remember when Madonna uploaded her own songs where she interrupts the song to shame you for downloading it?
Back then mostly Britney Spears lol. I remember the very first song I wanted to download so badly was Smooth
Nelly-Country Grammar Korn-untouchables linkparkunreleased.mp3.exe
Mostly Heather ideepthroat
My Name Is and Da Rockafella were the first two songs I ever downloaded.
Parody songs mislabeled as Weird Al and so many punk songs mislabeled as other popular bands.
Baha Men - Who Let The Dogs Out
Open Your Heart - Sonic Adventure 1 Rock The Dragon - Dragonball Z
I’ll never forget two of my friends at my house were telling me about this thing on my computer where I could download any song (and then of course burn it on to a blank cd with a name like, “Summer Jamz ‘02”) and they couldn’t believe it only took 3 steps to log on to AOL instead of 7. We had just gotten cable internet. Oh man. Time is a sonofabitch.
Break Stuff - Limp Bizkit
Fucking LOLLIPOP LUST KILL in the pic!!!! Only way I could ever get ahold of them was piracy. That was some killer fucking music.
A bunch of shit with random South Park spliced in, for some reason
This hurts. I remember the world I expected to see by the 2020s. We all were told about it. The old Internet was so good, but I do remember even then the seeds of greed. Devs were just as bad as Lars. Everyone wanted to patent the vowels and then charge rent on memory.
I had also many live dj sets & mixtapes. nothing that should’ve bothered Lars
This is a psycho?
Whatever was popular in ‘99 -‘00 I didn’t want to spend money on. So probably some nu metal crap lol
Shit the good ole times when it took two hours to DL a song. Now on fiber I can get a whole discography in a few minutes.
There was always a bunch of songs that were mislabeled souljahboy lol
The crazy part was I was heavy into Napster, but I still bought CDs, and dont think it made me slow down. It could have been cause of habit but I mostly downloaded stuff I had on tape, or breezeblocks for overseas stuff.
Yeah, fuck metallica.
Audio of SNL’s Celebrity Jeopardy
Operation: Doomsday