did boomers really wait weeks on end just to end up being baited and downloading the wrong torrent, where they moronic?
did boomers really wait weeks on end just to end up being baited and downloading the wrong torrent, where they retarded?
did boomers really wait weeks on end just to end up being baited and downloading the wrong torrent, where they moronic?
>where they moronic
Probably less moronic than you
You'd download multiple wait a couple hours delete the crap then report the fakes to leos anony
It's the same but now in minutes
>Paying $70 per month for multiple streaming services to companies that actively hate you rather than just getting everything for free and maybe downloading some accidental great porn while you're at it
Gosh I guess the zoomers win again
Spotify deleted two albums from an band I love that only ever released two studio albums. All there is now on the platform is one live album. And it's technically a solo album of one of the members, not actually by the band at all.
Streaming services were a mistake.
Neutral Milk Hotel?
>NMH is the Blood Meridian of Cinemaphile
which band and albums? also yes anything you want on hand get it. I use spotify because it’s easier. but I also have an offline archive of personal favorites to share with my kids.
what do you mean weeks? we had high speed internet, we were the first generation to use it as teenagers.
when limewire came out everyone had dial up. then eventually dsl. not high speed
Or even worse, satellite. Made 14.4 look like a T3 on a bad day.
nah high speed replaced dsl by 2004-2005
which proves my point genius
>mfw usenet is older than most of this site
>most
He was in college in 97 dipshit. Universities had the fastest connections.
as was i
alt.zen
Why is Emule better than Limewire?
couldn't you preview the file midway through the download?
Likewise was just another program renamed.
I downloaded my first movie in 1997. Like I said you'd download a couple delete the crap. You'd have 40-50 at once of several movies burn them to a DVD. A couple hours tops.
The people who were trolling usually ended up in police hands. It was different
>I downloaded my first movie in 1997
I call bullshit. It took hours to download the phantom menace trailer in 1999 for frick sake
How? You could get that on AIM faster
Aim - aol instant messenger
Aol- America online
America online is what x will become
America online was kind of a do everything site. Chat rooms, emails, tinder, news, aim, movies, music, porn. You make it. X or twitter can do it again because they have the hardware leap needed again.
In 1998 thousands of fans went to see Meet Joe Black in the theatre because it was discovered that the Ep1 trailer was being shown before the feature. That movie ended up gorssing $44million because of all the Star Wars fans paying to see the movie and then walking out of the showings after the trailer.
The trailer was officially released onto the internet in early 1999 when Apple wanted to show off their Quicktime video player.
But before that, this bootleg video recording from Meet Joe Black had already been uploaded to the internet and shared around the world.
I remember downloading a CAM bootleg of BLACK HAWK DOWN in 2001.
>1997
>dling movies
>dvds
>cyberpolice
Holy kek keep going you fricking zoomer idiot
The best you could get back then was a 144p apple QuickTime blurry ass 10 second clip. And maybe burn it onto a cd-rom.
>cd-rom
My fricking nuts exploded when I found out there were cd players that could play some file types instead of however a true CD is formatted so you could fill it comparatively.
CD-R+ was basically a piece of magic. could actually add and remove stuff. limited use and memory but very cool
The dumb 14 yo pajeet who’s been forcing his trust fund meme since last September is making shit up to fit in. You can always tell it’s some super vague shit and anytime he makes up details he gets it wrong
I literally still have a cd case filled with dozens of CD-Rs of music and media from back when I was torrenting stuff in middle school. No joke.
i used to have like 20 floppy discs full of porn, which was decent resolution so like 10 pics on each one. eventually i had to throw them out because it was only a matter of time my mom would pop one in
I'll admit, at 37-years-old, my only real experience with the 8 inch floppies was Oregon Trail in the school computer lab (when we were supposed to be learning how to properly type on a keyboard), but yeah, same. I had tons of the small, hard floppy disks fill to the brim with whatever I didn't want on my family's computer. Like "Playboy" pics or naked Misty.
HA!
I literally clicked on my "Pictures" folder for just some image to attach to this post and literally forgot I had taken a pic of one of those rubber cd cases. Surprising.
man, i moved around in my 20s a lot and just threw out so much shit over the years. wish i kept stuff like that.
....including some very valuable pokemon cards i'd rather not think about...
some original godzilla vhs from japan and all the james bonds... ohhh well
THAT'S nostalgia, and it hurts when you remember it's gone. I had Pokemon cards, too, because I literally lived in Okinawa, Japan (largest Pacific USAF military installation) when it was JUST STARTING (1995-1999) and I don't have any of that, now. I probably could've made bank with some of my Japanese original cards...
kek
I work medical, now, so my handwriting is both "extremely professional" when I want it to be but also complete garbage for my own notes and reports. And when I look at that "Rhapsody" cd, I remember that I literally got it for free because all I had to do was sign-up for a Rhapsody music account, which took all of 10 seconds, and then Best Buy gave it to me. I've never used that website, I just wanted another CD for storage.
oh yeah i looked up some of the values of the cards i remembered. they are worth a lot. i got frustrated at one point because my cousins had this book that said their value after they got out of fashion and they were worthless at that point so i tossed em. but then they werent.
i sitll have my Neo Feo and 8 games though, that fluctuates and last i checked Fatal Fury was doing pretty good. don't really wanna sell it ever though but i'm sure i will some day
When it comes to my video games and other media, I've still got all that, though. And their consoles (and tv), of course. Because I'm an OCD prick that just doesn't throw stuff away and likes them organized.
It all still works just fine (last I checked, which would be, like, 6 years ago).
i'd like to check on my Neo Geo but its such a pain in the ass to hook up, especially with modern tv's but it worked last time. i only worry about those controllers, some cords are exposed. the thing is just so huge i hate messing with it much. although its still the most fun system i have if you've got a friend over
>some cords are exposed
You mention that, and yeah, both more SNES controllers had their wires exposed long, long, long time ago. I've still got 3rd party ones (which "Turbo" buttons) somewhere, though. I've always had, like, 4 N64 controllers, though, so I'm sure one of 'em works.
I also liked my PS2 since now I could play DVDs.
best to use 3rd party if you're playin on it. especially for those 64 controllers if you can because those are going to break.
i also got a buddy who got a new earthbound cart for giving someone a ride, thats pretty cool.
i once went in on a Mystery Science Theater 3000: the movie dvd with people when there were all these legal issues with it, and it was worth a lot. once i found out the rights were being resolved i told him to sell it... he never did. motherfricker
>especially for those 64 controllers if you can because those are going to break.
No joke, 100% agree. And as much of a referential joke it is to talk about "Mario Party causing palm blisters," it was no joke at all and happened to basically everyone (being the kids we were). Like, the paddle boat and jump rope genuinely caused the center of my palm to lose skin and remain an open wound for something like 3 weeks.
I know I own some MST3K dvds, sitting over their on my bookshelf... I wonder what I have... We've got some similar memories, dude.
>We've got some similar memories, dude.
yep and i know i fricked them beyond belief from mario party 1. big thing was that minigame island mode where you'd have to beat them to unlock stuff.
The whole MST3K shit is really interesting if you ever read about the rights issues. they basically had to buy those movies to use, unless they got permission. so 'the Movie' (best episode imo) had to split the rights with Universal because This Island Earth was still considered a classic, and not really bad by the studio. it is kind of a cool movie.
But now, with all this online free use shit, i wonder if they could have gotten away with not getting the rights. its a stretch, but considering what some of these streamers do i really wonder. anyways, they had to release a lot of shit out of order, or put shorts on different dvds/vhs and such. the show also encouraged pirating, that fanclub at the end of the episodes had people sending each other tapes in a circulation, which is crazy to think about now
Oh, I know about their rights ownership for most of their seasons movies (my dad loved MST3K, we watched them together back when I had no clue what they were talking about, but at least it had a giant 50s monster, so it was fine) and their Movie fiasco. I just forgot which copies I owned, and it looks they're all VHS and not "The Movie." I've been watching some episodes again, lately, and happier that I'm getting the jokes now, as compared to elementary child me.
And yeah, that homescreen with Toad scream "WAAAOHHH!!" in MP1 and needing to unlock stuff via the minigame mode I remember 100%. I was keen on that, since my only group parties was walking down to the YMCA, since my sister didn't care about video games. Still, down at the youth center, I got to play against all kinds of friends and strangers at SSB, Mario Kart and Goldeneye. They had arcades for Mortal Kombat, Tekken and at least two dozen others.
>unlock minigames
It's the real reason I played Pokemon Stadium.
Being a kid growing up on a U.S. military base overseas for over a decade back in the 90s was extremely comforting. I never felt worried about anything. Nice.
>Goldeneye
"Hey, no screen peeking!"
>"Hey, no screen peeking!"
"Screw you! Stop picking Oddjob and crouching everywhere!"
i used to encourage people to be oddjob and i'd just constantly aim down as i went around corners and get a bunch of headshots. i played the game too much though
man, i used to be able to quote 'The Movie' so much. if you haven't seen it, it really is a perfect encapsulation of everything that works. Even the sketches in between are all gold.
Man, you have the exact same shitty handwriting as me, those discs look like I could have labeled them lol
Same. I don't even have a disc drive on my PC anymore to see what's on them lel. I should get a cheap one, I know for sure I have some lost media stuff people would want to see. There's like a thousand discs.
sounds like you're the moronic one
shouldnt you be making those barry lyndon or grandma raping like eminem threads instead
i've never seen so much bullshit in a single sentence.
you honestly think boomers have ever used limewire?
'Boomer' is rapidly becoming the most misused word in a decade
it was a feature, gave you plausible deniability so when the feds showed up you could pretend you downloaded the r@ygold stuff by accident
>on Kazaa
>trying to download a Neil Young album
>takes two hours to download
>open the file
>it's a Spanish version of a Michael Jackson song
>ragequit and go outside
The Internet was brand new back then, sure we were making mistakes. The Internet wasn't as polished with a million tutorials for everything. If you want to learn something you just go watch a YouTube tutorial, we just played around and learned from our mistakes.
sometimes you got what you wanted
sometimes you got something better
We all know what this means. It was a different time.
TRUST! HE COME TO FUND! (Baskin Roberts meme)
Limewire used gnutella or edonkey or something, not torrents. That shit always sucked ass.
>trying to download sin city
>takes all day
>it's actually a porn
>thinking I'm the one losing
for me it was WinMX
This is how you sent LINKIN_PARK_IN_THE_END_2000_OFFICIAL_HQ_ENCODE_BY_xXxL33THAX0RxXx.mp3 to your buddy back in the day
It took 20 minutes and 3 retries trying to get the angle and distance just right after it somehow failed halfway through even though none of you moved any of the phones whatsoever. Also you had storage for like 3-4 mp3 songs max, rest was polyphonic.
I still dont trust bluetooth to this day because of how traumatized I am by that era
>on limewire or Kazaa, I forget which
>download what is labelled as Jedi Knight 2
>it is actually Galactic Battlegrounds
>sink tons of hours into it and have loads of fun
Why don't zoomers torrent?
Requires more effort than downloading an app and navigating it with a single thumb
They are just more programmed into buying into streaming instead of owning things
its not a hard sell, apartments keep getting smaller, discs take up space, a movie on physical media costs 2 or 3 months of streaming services and its a lot of steps to watch something on the tv that you torrented online. (not that many, but still more annoying than streaming... sometimes) and they're afraid of getting caught
Agree, it's way easier just to pay a stream service, there's also the point that most of this people are more phone users than pc users so they don't care about storing digital data anyway
>trying to download Green Day
>I did not have sexual relations with that woman I did however go to e free store dot com
have a nice day you underage meme forcing homosexual. You don’t even know what we’re talking about
Sounds like you don't either, fundie
Dumb esl
NEET Amerishart.
>pretends to know what limewire is
>never got the Clinton clip
moron. But of course, this shit predates your made up 2010 date for your shit meme
Early internet surfing was like the colonizers arriving in America, all out free for all. It was a better time, you zoomers wouldnt understand.
It even had gold, IE Bitcoin
YES and it was GLORIOUS
>weeks
It took hours at most, and more often less than one, because the quality of films was usually not great on file sharing services.
Who else has that tATu mp3 with the AIM door slamming sound?
>I found the full tape for the pink belt girl years later
that rings a bell lol what was that one
It was the funds fundie
What are you talking about?
>downloaded Limewire Pro with Limewire
This will always be funny
>wait that's illegal
now that the dust has settled, was lars ultimately in the right?
No, why do Metallica get to be lords of the interweb?
Whether he was or wasn't, they had already caught a bunch of hate for changing their image and somewhat their sound. Going against a bunch of small artists who weren't making any money from sales in the first place, but getting a ton of free tour promotion instead sealed it.
FIRE BAD
NAPSTER BAD
LINK
this shit was honestly years ahead of its time at least from the UI/design point of view
wonder why they couldn't monetize it and become the crunchyroll of music
there was some sketchy illegal shit on this website
wasn't a website
That’s the underage baskin roberts kid. Ignore him
Torrents were great because it wasn't a DIRECT download!
That meant we could let it download for 10 minutes, 30 minutes, an hour, a day, a week... AND people could call your house phone-line!!
FINALLY!
You children don't know shit. You have no idea what "dial-up" was beyond some super old-referential joke that was purely funny and meant nothing.
No we went to blockbuster.
>Downloading entire DBZ movie collection
>Takes like a fricking week or two even with me leaving the PC on overnight (mommy was pissed when she saw it on)
>Finally time for some Dragon Ball Kino
>Black screen with audio
>Try other files
>Same thing
In hindsight it was most likely some missing codec, or if I used a video player other than the default Windows one it may have worked
they would also use weird formats so you had to download their specific codec which had a trojan or some shit in it.
Back in the early 2000s my parents were throwing away their old Packard Bell PC and I stayed up all night on Limewire purposely downloading every single sketchy .exe I could find and installing it. I turned that computer into a digital superfund site. I saw… things. Terrible things no teenager should ever see. Good times.
You're welcome. -R@ygold
>Dozens of parents thought leaving their kids with this guy in Uncle Touchy's Tickle Palace was a good idea, and he totally wasn't going to molest the kids.
That’s not what limewire is you dumb zoomer homosexual
BearShare was the shit back in the day. Limewire got fake and gay.
Torrents are better in every way.
>did boomers really wait weeks on end just to end up being baited and downloading the wrong torrent, where they moronic?
No, we used Usenet.
I was like 10-14 so yeah I was moronic
Also I saw my first hentai this way
I distinctly recall downloading a 10MB file taking one hour, maybe even longer
Those multi part rar file downloads for games were something else, would almost plan out how I'd get them all done to try and play the game on the weekend
You aren't funny and you should seriously consider killing yourself.
Nah. My friends would say "Pirate Bay is dumb use bearshare or limewire" and Id say no, Pirate bay is better it has comments to verify youre not accidentally downloading virus' or CP. Pretty sure my friends where into CP..
i worked some dumbass factory job in 2013 and this chick was trying to teach this 40 yr old how to pirate and telling him to use limewire and i had to jump in. so i'm explaining downloading tixati and magnet links and torrents and then i realized halfway through he was never going to get it
There used to be preview clips with releases
11 Year old me was downloading the music video for "Animal I have Become" By Three Days Grace because being a white kid growing up in a middle class suburbs in the early 2000s was suffering. Instead it was a blonde Australian chick with huge breasts giving a guy a tit frick.
Made it my goal to experience how that felt and was so disappointed when it finally happened.
When I was a kid learning about porn in the late 90s, I was also disappointed how "hot chicks" were just plastic bimbos.
Why do women have to be like that.
Well, the rich dudes liked showcasing their money by manipulating their women, and women will do ANYTHING for attention from rich guys, so... all that Hollywood bimbo crap probably represents what millionaires want to pay for.
I mean, hey, better than obese b***hes, at least. Just way more fake than I was hoping for. (And being "fake" turns out to be "real," which sucks)
>System of a Down - The Legend of Zelda
LINK
you haven't lived until you irreversably infest the living room computer with pop up viruses trying to dl 480p german scat porn
My dad bought me a Lego Star Destroyer after he asked me to admit to my mom that all the porn pop-up viruses that appeared on our computer was my fault.
At least we didn't download bitcoin miners and botnets.
MY FELLOW AMERICANS
>ynr the butthole who used to mix loud porn sounds of women moaning in the camrips of newly released movies
I hope that fricker died a painful death
>A PIGGA PIGGA PIGGA /misc/
>A PIGGA PIGGA PIGGA /misc/
>A PIGGA PIGGA PIGGA /misc/
>I FIT IN BECAUSE IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII'M RACIST!
Every zoomer on Cinemaphile who tries to talk about things that happened before their time. I miss when /b/ was the cancerous board that spread. At least /b/tards were funny sometimes. This thread is gay
why do you call anyome older than you boomer? GenX is not boomer and never was. Only morons used limewire because everything on it was riffled with viruses including media exploit against players like vlc and windows media player
Boomer is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with age. It is any person it has happened to
>56k dial up
>max i got was 3k/bs
life would've been amazing if 56k was actually 56k.
i used to have to download overnight at least for a single music video or movie trailer