I paid for the internet, the 486, the power, and the apartment. I had to download napster and use it. that took time which could be exchanged for money.
Oddly enough it was the same federal minimum wage during Napster time as is it is now.
How was that "free" ? Free certainly had high price requirements.
ugh this one time i was visiting a friend in nyc. maybe like 2010. she takes me to this party and i see this guy there wearing a limewire shirt. so i go up and ask him bro do you work for limewire? he says "naw man but i used to" and my mind is blown so i ask him what it was like and he thinks for a sec and then he says "it was wild man" and i didn't even know what to say after that.
The '90s were a lot of fun too. As I stare down the barrel of my 60th birthday next month, and watch the U.S. collapse and the world unravel, I can't help but be nostalgic about the mid-90s through about 2015, which in my opinion was peak America.
Imagining the progression of the US as a chart, the post-2015 era would not be so much a slope, rathee a cliff. It's absurd how rapid thing have declined.
On a positive note - good luck on your 60th, hope you have a grand one.
Thank you so much! I'm having a bit of a renaissance. After exiting an unhappy marriage and spending several years recovering my mental and physical health, I'm in the best physical shape of my life and am having a lot of fun. While the state of world affairs is depressing, I'm moving forward with my plan to exit the U.S. and move to New Zealand for a fresh start.
Wtf. Two Beavis and Butthead memes back to back in my feed posted by two different users to two different communities. What kind of glitch in the matrix fuckery is going on here?
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zeroConnection@programming.dev · 43 pts · 115d
Oh yeah, I remember when we upgraded from dial up and the speeds were so fast I could download a new song while listening to another. Non-stop music!
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 115d
Streaming but extra steps but freeeeeee
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com · 12 pts · 115d
I paid for the internet, the 486, the power, and the apartment. I had to download napster and use it. that took time which could be exchanged for money.
Oddly enough it was the same federal minimum wage during Napster time as is it is now.
How was that "free" ? Free certainly had high price requirements.
deranger@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 115d
You ran Napster on a 486? I was on a Pentium 200MMX in that era.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 115d
If you had pentium money you could have been at Sam Goody buying the damn CDs! Your punishment in hell will be tenfold.
Damage@feddit.it · 3 pts · 115d
Nah, 486s were old by the time Napster was out.... The first Pentium IIIs were coming out then I think
prettybunnys@piefed.social · 1 pts · 115d
Napster and the PIII released in 1999
Damage@feddit.it · 1 pts · 115d
I think I did in fact first use it on my PIII 450MHz running win 98 maybe in 2000 or 2001. It feels like it must have been before 9/11.
osanna@lemmy.vg · 1 pts · 114d
Hell it’s decades later and I still don’t have Pentium money lol
CallMeAl@piefed.world · 27 pts · 115d
ugh this one time i was visiting a friend in nyc. maybe like 2010. she takes me to this party and i see this guy there wearing a limewire shirt. so i go up and ask him bro do you work for limewire? he says "naw man but i used to" and my mind is blown so i ask him what it was like and he thinks for a sec and then he says "it was wild man" and i didn't even know what to say after that.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 115d
The nineties were wild.
N0t_5ure@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 115d
The '90s were a lot of fun too. As I stare down the barrel of my 60th birthday next month, and watch the U.S. collapse and the world unravel, I can't help but be nostalgic about the mid-90s through about 2015, which in my opinion was peak America.
ArchsageRamases@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 115d
pulsewidth@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 115d
Imagining the progression of the US as a chart, the post-2015 era would not be so much a slope, rathee a cliff. It's absurd how rapid thing have declined.
On a positive note - good luck on your 60th, hope you have a grand one.
Damage@feddit.it · 7 pts · 115d
Bin Laden won
can@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 115d
link
klu9@piefed.social · 1 pts · 115d
Jefferson Davis won.
N0t_5ure@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 115d
Thank you so much! I'm having a bit of a renaissance. After exiting an unhappy marriage and spending several years recovering my mental and physical health, I'm in the best physical shape of my life and am having a lot of fun. While the state of world affairs is depressing, I'm moving forward with my plan to exit the U.S. and move to New Zealand for a fresh start.
ThunderQueen@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 115d
X@piefed.world · 14 pts · 115d
Fuck ‘em, and their law
valar@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 115d
What we're dealing with here is a total lack of respect for the law
bedwyr@piefed.ca · 10 pts · 115d
Arrr matey, the law means nothing in the high seas of the these internets nowadays. Curse ye land lubbers and yer subscriptions.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 115d
I literally just had this song stuck in my head like ten minutes ago. This is fucking freaky. Do I have a brain chip that no one told me about?
bob_lemon@feddit.org · 3 pts · 114d
We tried to tell you via the brain chip, but we kept getting 503s because it was busy putting songs into your head.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 114d
Can you at least set it to Jimi Hendrix and quit inserting all those intrusive thoughts about weird stuff?
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 115d
Yes
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 115d
Fuck!
tetris11@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 115d
So much for this golden future...
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 114d
The only thing golden about this future are the showers trickling down from the billionaires upon us peasants.
And I'm not talking about the noble metal...
Zephorah@discuss.online · 5 pts · 115d
It wasn’t though, not until Lars.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 115d
That was a civil case. Copyright infringement absolutely was illegal before that.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 115d
Nevertheless, fuck Lars.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 115d
Yeah I mean obviously
Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 115d
Excuse me, but it is "breaking the law". Rob Halford is a proper Englishman who does not say "breakin'".
ArchsageRamases@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 115d
ThunderQueen@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 115d
ArchsageRamases@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 115d
can@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 115d
If we were discussing this on a different instance I could give you better options.
ArchsageRamases@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 115d
jballs@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 115d
Wtf. Two Beavis and Butthead memes back to back in my feed posted by two different users to two different communities. What kind of glitch in the matrix fuckery is going on here?
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 115d
hDGGgrLpg8nEucjxWnJz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 115d
I must be old. I don't think it was even illegal yet when I used it
wizzkidd@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 115d
Damn. Sometimes i wish for a utopia tomorrow. Cause i dont wanna work on what i dont wanna work on.
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 115d
Old me has graduated to videos
Thatuserguy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 115d
Is this that chainsaw man fellow I keep hearing the kids talk about?
bedwyr@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 115d
You might be thinking of Scarface.
dhruv3006@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 115d
Hehe - those were the days my friend - we thought they would never end - we sing and dance forever ----
osanna@lemmy.vg · 2 pts · 114d
I miss those days. The internet used to be fun. Now it’s shitter this, tiktwat that. Ugh.