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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:

Im Not even 40. Leave me alone.

Everytime I see limewire I feel left out.

Where are my Kaaza hommies at??

I'm older.

Let's just leave it at that

the computer isn't beige enough.

I'm hooking two vhs players together to commit piracy old.

i witnessed the creation of the mp3 format!

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.

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?

This isn't very old lol. That computer could be from 2010 and CD's and Sharpies were used then. Also, LimeWire was functional until like late 2010.

Older actually. My first portable music format was 8track

Old enough to remember using a 3½” floppy disk to boot my first PC and mess around with GW/Q-BASIC and play DOS games.

The disks were strongly perfumed (I guess the guy I bought my pirated games from liked to do that for some reason), and I still remember that aroma.

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

Ugh..

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

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

Damn kids acting like 5-10 years before they were born was the dark ages. Damn.

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...

You don't know old until you've had to change the IRQ for your sound card because wolf3d.exe's settings were different than swotl.exe.

I grew up with these.

Kids, I played Leisure Suit Larry on a Macintosh II

Pre-home internet I remember running a line-in to my soundblaster card from a clock radio and recording Tool's Sober to my HDD.

The wav file took up a good chunk of the HDD. After a good amount of funking around with encoding it was barely comprehensible and still took up too much room. Was exciting and felt like a glimpse of the future.

...I'm older.

...Oregon Trail older, motherfucker.

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.

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 this old.

Commodore64 gang represent!

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

Don’t hurt me like this.

My first pirated copy of windows was 3.1.

I’m monochrome cga screen old. Commodore VIC 20, Philips MSX, Video 2000 old.

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

Shiiit I had to block people at work from running bearshare and limewire

We didn't really have the right equipment for it. It was early enough in Windows that I couldn't adequately secure the developers from running crap on their workstations.

I eventually managed to get our antivirus to flag the DLLs for the applications as viruses, that caused a little bit of an uproar.

Wrong Dell.