This was me when my dad would use limewire, break the family PC, and blame me because I was playing “those video games”.
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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?
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?!"
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?
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”
system32.exe? WTF I dont need 32 of them. I just need one.
This made me feel pain
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
And now I fix all the home PCs.
Oh god, this was me back when I was a kid (thankfully it was never permanently ruined). I also hid all my secret downloads in system32 so nobody would find them.
Oh man. Fucking around with config.bat having NFI what it did.
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.
Limewire, Kazaa, Audiogalaxy and eDonkey! The first two were so risky!
Thats my super power, there was no family PC. It was my PC.
rip
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)