Ahhhh I love this so much! The duck plush, Meteora, those speakers, a Tamagotchi, this diamond lollipop thing,... so many more details! The hanging hamster on the left with the little scrunched up face is my fave 😄❤️
Ahoy matey!! All the pirating! All day long. Every day. I had a giant vinyl collection that I had to get onto my computer somehow. There was also Kazaa too.
I used one called WinMX; and wound up using that more for the chatrooms than actual files. Lot of roots in my life were planted there that still grow today.
I did and it didn’t because none of the viruses getting passed around Limewire in 2002 had any effect on Macs. The flipside was Macs didn’t have the divx codec you needed to play most amv’s so I’d spend 14 hours downloading videos I couldn’t listen to.
Limewire as it exists today is actually just unrelated companies reusing its name for NFT grifts and AI slop. I think they recently bought a file sharing service or two and rolled that under their umbrella. Definitely avoid!
(Even recognize the **kind** of CD-Rs those are by the color. Which I had for ENTIRELY LEGAL PlayStation Reasons! Even remember the smell of the crusty cellophane covering.)
I was actually pretty good about avoiding viruses on limewire back in the day. Did get several bill clinton piracy mp3s though, which sucked. Usually, it was torrents that were the infection vector.
I think I used limewire and emule. Although Netflix has me thinking of getting my movies and series elsewhere, I feel like I wouldn't even know where to start, the internet is not the same place anymore.
You could download music and movies with it, but it was 50/50 chance of the file being the thing it said it was or porn/virus. And with the downloading speeds and limits of the time, you would find out hours later and have no more internet left to try again 😂
Yes, and yes. Between Limewire, KaZaA, and Bearshare, I bricked the same laptop three times within a year. In my defense I was in middle school and a bad student to boot :P
I had that platypus!! The cutest ;0;
I used Limewire but only at my friend's house, so it was not my problem 😌 shortly after I think is when my cousins introduced me to Gendou for anime music and that was much easier lol
Yes, and somehow not at all. I think I used it very little, and somehow I escaped with no perceivable issue. I might have been protected by your pal and mine Bonzi Buddy.
My sister managed to fuck up our shared computer a few times, but I eventually managed to figure out which ones were actual music files and which ones were just the Clinton "I did not have sex with that woman" or virus-laden ones by file size.
I did and even with a thousand virus and spyware programs I still ended up with the one that made porn randomly pop up on your browser, and one of the toolbars.
I remember my dad downloading a copy of World of Warcraft 3 from limewire onto my netbook and it caused my pc to get a virus that would play a spooky jumpscare whenever I started it
Nah, we had napster though, and downloaded a lot of music. Limewire was later on, and mostly video and viruses, yeah? I am not much of a video customer, and a mac doesn't virus the same way a windows machine would.
Used it and my dad banned me from using his computer because I was hoarding it. No virus.
He got me a laptop, and I used limewire on it. Got a virus. I'm sure it was a coincidence because I was downloading all sort of junk outside of limewire.
I did, and it definitely infected the PC with viruses. I don't think my parents believed that 'modern computers connected to the internet will sometimes just get viruses and adware for porn'.
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also look at all those hamters
I think I was trying to get an HQ rip of an Ouran High fan dub lol
But also, how badass did it feel to use Limewire to download Limewire Pro?
That checkbox was such a tell!
Also, yes, Limewire was everything to me. And it fucked my computer up a bit but I was good at finding ways to fix it.
Fuck
love this so much!!!
(Even recognize the **kind** of CD-Rs those are by the color. Which I had for ENTIRELY LEGAL PlayStation Reasons! Even remember the smell of the crusty cellophane covering.)
Early 00's had some bangers, no lie.
Only one hamster, though 🐹
A week later my PC had to be wiped including all the music (I got from limewire mostly) because I'd bricked it
Geeksquad called and said they had to give me a new device.
:') Made my bed, lied in it
Nah. Surprise pR0n 😞
I used Limewire but only at my friend's house, so it was not my problem 😌 shortly after I think is when my cousins introduced me to Gendou for anime music and that was much easier lol
Usually I just got those boring fake Clinton ads instead of the Inuyasha BGM I wanted
Not as badly as the email ad-ons my mom was always downloading, though
And then she'd blame the slowness and crappiness of the computer on us using it to "play games" lol
I stopped using it once I got my machine clean.
My older brother did
He got me a laptop, and I used limewire on it. Got a virus. I'm sure it was a coincidence because I was downloading all sort of junk outside of limewire.
I haven't thought about it since 2007.