memes

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

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:

the computer isn't beige enough.

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.

I'm older.

Let's just leave it at that

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??

Older actually. My first portable music format was 8track

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 witnessed the creation of the mp3 format!

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.

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?

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

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

Ugh..

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.

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'm this old.

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

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

No, because my country was pretty much too small and poor to have brand-name sharpies, we just had felt pens with other names. Carioca I believe was the most prominent brand back then.

...I'm older.

...Oregon Trail older, motherfucker.

Record off the radio to cassette and an active market for pirated live shows because we lived past nowhere and it was all we had access to.

Don’t hurt me like this.

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...

My first pirated copy of windows was 3.1.

Wrong Dell.

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 grew up with these.

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

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.