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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/funny

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The early days of downloading were a fun time

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I've told this story before it's funny so I'll repeat it... It was the early 2000s and I heard a song on the radio where a man made a bunch of funny sounds with his voice and the only lyrics I remembered were "I'm the scat man". I was interested to see what else he made...

I went on to kazza and search "scat man", found a video I assumed was a music video and downloaded... Several hours later (56k modem)...

My childhood was lost forever.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

Skibidi before it was cool

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Can definitely relate. Exploring rotten.com made quick work of my childhood innocence

[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Now there's a face I haven't seen in a long time

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Who is it?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Heather Harmon... or so my friend says anyway.

[–] fibojoly 5 points 7 months ago

Oooooh! I didn't recognise her as a brunette! Now that brings back some memories...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hmm. Time to Google (I still don’t recognize her)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

You're in for a treat... Or so my friend says anyway.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago

Throat goat.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I am almost 40, and have been a VP of Engineering at multiple silicon valley based tech companies. Still I have an uncle who I'm quite sure doesn't trust me to touch any of his computers because in the 90s I definitely bricked more than a few of his PCs by fucking around and finding out.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

Breaking a few eggs to make the omelette. Unfortunately for him it was his eggs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

this is exactly how I learned how to reinstall windows. fucking up my dad's compaq

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Shout to those who recognize that chick

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

How could you not recognize the OG throat GOAT?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Where my eDonkey 2000 boys at‽

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Right here, but we’re moving to Overnet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDonkey2000

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Good to know some vestige of the old days lives on.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

What I remember (I think it was the eDonkey software) was the ads were just photos in a folder.

What I did was found dummy ads, renamed them to the names of the legitimate ads, deleted the original ads, and set the folder to read only. All I ever saw were the joke ads.

Man, that brings me back. That and the software that would update your trackers automagically every x amount of minutes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

So many hours. So many music I downloaded from there.

[–] lurch 9 points 7 months ago

Nothing the Debian or SuSE install CDs couldn't fix 😉

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

I wonder if she's aware about how many computers she's taking part in destroying

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

god the anticipation of waiting for that download to finish

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

When Kazaa killed Kazaa Lite, I was upset until I got on Kazaa and downloaded Kazaa Lite.