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I'm exactly that old.

Edit: The PC in the image is a bit anachronistic. This is the workhorse we're all thinking of:

Naw. I'm this fucking old:

I'm this old:

i witnessed the creation of the mp3 format!

Everytime I see limewire I feel left out.

Where are my Kaaza hommies at??

Im Not even 40. Leave me alone.

I'm quite a bit older than this...

Remember how when you would burn a CD you couldn't use your computer lest the write buffer dropped too low and the burn world fail?

2001, Dre's album drops, nobody has it yet. In walks the kid who has a T1 line and a 5 disc CD copier with a spindle of discs. He sits down in homeroom, puts the spindle on his desk and says Dre's new album five bucks right here.

He sold out before the end of the day, made a good amount of cash, and was racking it in for months getting people albums that they requested because none of us could get it work with our slow connection. Of course when the two competing ISPs upgraded their networks later that year, he lost the majority of his business, but for a few months he was our pirate savior.

I don't even know what you are talking about. I am young, very young. I enjoy rizzing in the toilets and skibiding everyday bro. So fresh. 🤙

pls don't leave me with the boomers...

I remember the moment I realised my fancy new Walkman could read data CD-Rs and I could fit all my mp3s into one 700mb disc. I felt insane, majestic, limitless.

the computer isn't beige enough.

I'm older.

Let's just leave it at that

I grew up with these.

We're as far away from the 90s as the 90s were from the 60s.

Ugh..

Commodore64 gang represent!

Yup, and eventually I got a disk drive with LIGHTSCRIBE and just put the album art on the burned CD. I felt like hot shit.

Limewire? How about DC++ and eMule?

These people are like 25-30, that’s not old yet I hope

I remember my first written CD. You put the CD into a transfer case and slide it into a large box. Shortly after, the empty transfer case comes back out. You have already prepared your CD image, not as a project or file, no, you had to prepare it as an image on its own partition, on a disk that did not host anything else.

Then you shutdown your computer, and reboot it basically into the burn program, which then tries to move the data fast enough from the disk partition to the CD burner. The speed, of course, was 1x, so this write operation could last an hour and a quarter.

Then, your computer reboots back into the OS. You put the empty transfer case into the writer, and after some time, it comes back out with the media. And now you can finally put in into a reader and read it and compare it to the data on that partition. Knock on wood, or whatever. Because about half the writes failed, and the media cost a fortune.

Going from a radio shack trs-80 model 3 to those desktops was great.

Except mine didn't have floppy drives. I only had a cassette player for storage.

I used to pirate games and store them here when I was a kid to play on my commodore 128

Limewire was the shit. But I'm so old I started with Napster

It was great to go to college at a time when Napster and IRC rooms were in prime time, combined with a T1 fiber connection and University IT was too primitive to do anything to monitor or stop the behavior.

I'm old enough to remember when computers didn't even require a hard drive, they could just boot right into Basic from ROM.

I started college with a 1.44 MB floppy disk in my pocket and graduated with a 1GB USB stick.