Early piracy was just so fun. Like I’m glad that it’s more simple, and accessible now, and that you are less likely to use your dial-up internet to download a virus over 3 days… But, it was so exciting lmao. Like it felt like you were stepping into some underground club that no one knew about - even though you were a 12 year old nerd with no prospects of a girlfriend in the near future hahahaha. But it was really fun, and it helped me learn to like problem-solving, and the idea of piracy, and open-source software def also helped me develop some ideas about the world around sharing, and stuff.
Anyway I think that’s enough gushing about that hahaha, just wanted to indulge in my nostalgia for a minute.
Did you spend 33 minutes downloading an MP3 of “Eyes on Me” from FFVIII, praying that nobody picks up the phone, then nearly crying while listening to it because your family computer plays MIDI files so poorly compared to your friends’ family computers?
Early piracy for me was getting PC games on floppy disks from friends and relatives. It was kind of just accepted everyone who had a computer would copy their games and software for everyone else to use.
Hell yeah. And before DVD burners, you could burn Invader Zim eps to a VCD and pop that into a DVD player, amazing your friends!
Early piracy was just so fun. Like I’m glad that it’s more simple, and accessible now, and that you are less likely to use your dial-up internet to download a virus over 3 days… But, it was so exciting lmao. Like it felt like you were stepping into some underground club that no one knew about - even though you were a 12 year old nerd with no prospects of a girlfriend in the near future hahahaha. But it was really fun, and it helped me learn to like problem-solving, and the idea of piracy, and open-source software def also helped me develop some ideas about the world around sharing, and stuff.
Anyway I think that’s enough gushing about that hahaha, just wanted to indulge in my nostalgia for a minute.
Are you absolutely me?
Did you spend 33 minutes downloading an MP3 of “Eyes on Me” from FFVIII, praying that nobody picks up the phone, then nearly crying while listening to it because your family computer plays MIDI files so poorly compared to your friends’ family computers?
Early piracy for me was getting PC games on floppy disks from friends and relatives. It was kind of just accepted everyone who had a computer would copy their games and software for everyone else to use.
It owned tbh.