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This was me when my dad would use limewire, break the family PC, and blame me because I was playing “those video games”.
This is just it. I used limewire for years and never got a virus. I was also not stupid enough to download “Brittany.Spears.Nude.Totally.Legit.Movie.avi.exe”. It amazes me how completely blind some people are.
Why is the download not starting when I click on your link? Can you DM me the video?
Sure thing, just pm me your credit card details, for age verification purposes.
That seems excessive but I can do that. Thank you for being so thorough - it makes me feel more secure :)
Well 13 year old me with incredibly slow internet and no easy access to boobs wanted to see Brittany spears naked.
I was like 11 and had no idea wth i was doing. but i sure downloaded a lot of stuff from Limewire…“why the hell is the computer so slow all of a sudden?!”
Like 47 god damn tool bars
Or in the 90s, finding the Windows directory, “there’s a lot of stuff in here, I bet I can free up a lot of space”
What the hell is explorer. And why is it using all the ram?
Removed by mod
system32.exe? WTF I dont need 32 of them. I just need one.
Me: using safe browsing practices and only downloading from trusted sources
My Mom: downloading every toolbar in existence
My Mom: “You broke the computer!”
Early pirating was like playing the lottery.
Will I get the good version of a song or a weird remix?
Will the media play or be some unrecognized format?
What’s making my pc run so slow?
You need real player and QuickTime
This hurts. I still remember when I rendered our first family PC unbootable. It was a Pentium II 266 with a tiny 3GB HDD running Windows 98, and apparently some sub folder of system32 seemed a good place to start doing some clean up to win back some extra space.
Turns out, it wasn’t.
Now turns have tabled and I’m the stereotypical IT professional who helps out fixing PCs/smartphones
That needs to be a BearShare logo for me lol
My god man. This brings back a traumatic memory of me bricking my now brother-in-laws PC by trying to torrent a cracked version of counter strike. I was young and dumb and panicked. Entire hard drive was wiped without chance to backup. 😩
I’m in IT and luckily I never had to deal with this. Now if they had a card that said “So you’ve bricked the company server” then that would be me.
Mid 2000s? Say wut? I think lImewire was dead by the mid 2000s?
More like 2000-2002 just downloaded a pirated new movie only to realize the file was mislabeled and it wasn’t what I was expecting and now I have to go ham on the hard drive with 00 buck shot.
The amount of money I wasted using printer ink for “educational jpgs” when I had the house to myself… I’m so sorry, my parents (90’s dinosaur)
eMule
That’s where you could find everything!
I never got a virus from eMule, but so many misslabled files.
I downloaded a lot of music videos. One was allegedly a Rammstein track, but turned out to be a video about a girl and her dog if you know what I mean
Me and my little sister downloading minecraft mods and getting malware
This hits young me learning linux and dual booting straight in the feels. I can’t even begin to count the amount of times I totally wrecked the family computer and had to reinstall windows from scratch.
And now I fix all the home PCs.
