do you remember limewire

Specialun · 07-02-2019 11:46pm #1

just had a chat about this earlier. i remember downloading a micky j album and it took 4 days, when it downloaded it was shocking quality

can you remember it, it was like a lottery to what would be downloaded.

Ruraldweller56 · 07-02-2019 11:48pm

Specialun wrote: »

just had a chat about this earlier. i remember downloading a micky j album and it took 4 days, when it downloaded it was shocking quality

can you remember it, it was like a lottery to what would be downloaded.

Yes I remember. Highly unreliable. I use frostwire nowadays.

Limewire. Jesus it seems like yesterday

racso1975 · 07-02-2019 11:48pm

I remember when people used to actually call him by his real name as opposed to looking like a twat online!!!

VW 1 · 07-02-2019 11:49pm

Yup, setting albums to download overnight and hoping they'd be done by morning.

retalivity · 07-02-2019 11:50pm

Limewire, a spammier version of kazaa

stampydmonkey · 07-02-2019 11:52pm

Limewire and my creative zen MP3 brick...a match made in heaven

Your Face · 07-02-2019 11:52pm

I remember Cds

07-02-2019 11:54pm

Your Face wrote: »

I remember Cds

And April in Paris.

BackforFPL · 07-02-2019 11:56pm

Getaway with your limewires and your napsters.

Double tape decks are where it's at lads.

Always has been. Always will be.

TallGlass · 07-02-2019 11:57pm

Opening downloaded song, Bill Clinton "My fellow Americans I would once again like to say that I did not have sexual relations with that woman I did however go to efreeclub.com where they offer hundreds of free products computers, notebooks, and accessorys, televisions, home importable audio and video, fashions cosmetic housewares and much more. Visit them today at www.efreeclub.com and do like I do, just get it free."

Rap songs downloaded. 'Worldstarthiphop.com"

klaaaz · 08-02-2019 12:01am

Audiogalaxy was the best especially for rare songs

Somehow the RIAA left that service last on it's list of targets, twas strange in the battle between the RIAA and the P2P's. Then torrents came after all that..

08-02-2019 12:03am

I remember it killed 3 computers at home!!

Ultimanemo · 08-02-2019 12:04am

Joel Blue Wig wrote: »

I remember it killed 3 computers at home!!

Viruses?

Ultimanemo · 08-02-2019 12:05am

I used Morpheus

DEFTLEFTHAND · 08-02-2019 12:06am

Joel Blue Wig wrote: »

I remember it killed 3 computers at home!!

Yeah I remember fcking up the family computer with it back in 2006.

I used to burn albums off it and sell them in school.

Seems like a lifetime ago now.

Wibbs · 08-02-2019 12:06am

Deleted User wrote: »

And April in Paris.

the Germans wore grey and you wore blue.

Your Face · 08-02-2019 12:07am

[Deleted User] wrote: »

And April in Paris.

But it's breakfast time back home.

myshirt · 08-02-2019 12:12am

These were the times where it was common during one's late teens to suddenly stop and freeze mid coitus.

What are you doing she would say?

Buffering kids, buffering. You will never know our pain.

timthumbni · 08-02-2019 12:13am

Limewire was like a 40 yr old Brooklyn hooker in the mid 80s who didn’t insist on condoms.

It was literally riddled with severe viruses. It busted my pc so violently once that the RUC came to the door and asked if we had been nail bombed.

demanufactured · 08-02-2019 12:14am

Specialun wrote: »

just had a chat about this earlier. i remember downloading a micky j album and it took 4 days, when it downloaded it was shocking quality

can you remember it, it was like a lottery to what would be downloaded.

Do you remember Napster?

JulesInKy · 08-02-2019 12:16am

I used WinMX and Bearshare. The hours I spent watching progress meters!

demanufactured · 08-02-2019 12:16am

klaaaz wrote: »

Audiogalaxy was the best especially for rare songs Somehow the RIAA left that service last on it's list of targets, twas strange in the battle between the RIAA and the P2P's. Then torrents came after all that..

Audiogalaxy was great, a weird client but always reliable.

08-02-2019 12:16am

Downloading Limewire Pro with Limewire free

Irish Guitarist · 08-02-2019 12:21am

These fuckers as well as Kazaa, Bearshare and the like are the reason for YouTube videos with titles like this.

Four Phucs Ache · 08-02-2019 12:21am

I remember Napster...99???....girlfriends older brother (20) had it and I searched for hotel California for some reason...the version I picked was an extra long acoustic version and it took an hour to download 30 secs using AOL CD dial up shyte....

Next day there was murder with the ma in the kichen coz everybody she tried to ring had engaged tone.....Hotel California was on 79% after 14 hours !!!!!!!!!!

08-02-2019 12:22am

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Yeah I remember fcking up the family computer with it back in 2006.

I used to burn albums off it and sell them in school.

Seems like a lifetime ago now.

same, my creative zen filled with tonnes of songs/family guy south park episodea with it,- until I learned to rip music off youtube to mp3 and then I started earning enough to get spotify!!

demanufactured · 08-02-2019 12:23am

I'll go one better.
A guy I knew in the states during the 90s circumvented a porn sites security and gained access to their FTP server.
For about 3 years into the early 2000s we had access to about 30GB of online space where we shared files, until the site went offline.

08-02-2019 12:24am

Used to love limewire. Was the only place I could find WWE Theme Music back in the day. Used to practically live in an internet cafe downloading everything in sight.

Vela · 08-02-2019 12:27am

stampydmonkey wrote: »

Limewire and my creative zen MP3 brick...a match made in heaven

Ahh the good oul Creative Zen....

I had Limewire but I also had this other one called Bear-something?

Ipso · 08-02-2019 12:32am

Four Phucs Ache wrote: »

I remember Napster...99???....girlfriends older brother (20) had it and I searched for hotel California for some reason...the version I picked was an extra long acoustic version and it took an hour to download 30 secs using AOL CD dial up shyte....

Next day there was murder with the ma in the kichen coz everybody she tried to ring had engaged tone.....Hotel California was on 79% after 14 hours !!!!!!!!!!

So you checked in and never left?

patrickbrophy18 · 08-02-2019 12:45am

Ultimanemo wrote: »

I used Morpheus

Limewire was pretty much a clone of Morpheus given the near identical interface. Similarly, the layout for Bebo was lifted directly from MySpace.

Autosport · 08-02-2019 1:08am

Ah good old Bebo

I still have lime wire on the laptop I sometimes open it and remember the good old days of seeing is something fully downloaded

bodhrandude · 08-02-2019 1:23am

Slsk - Soul Seek, I still use this from time to time, still works too. Either that or torrents, tried Limewire and got viruses as well.

shmeee · 08-02-2019 1:26am

VW 1 wrote: »

Yup, setting albums to download overnight and hoping they'd be done by morning.

Downloaded an Oasis album, probably cost more on the internet cost than actually going out and buying the CD.

To be honest, didn't end up downloading too much poor quality stuff.

I've a folder on my external hard drive tilted; limewire music, some gems in it

donspeekinglesh · 08-02-2019 1:30am

Vela wrote: »

Ahh the good oul Creative Zen....

I had Limewire but I also had this other one called Bear-something?

Bearshare. I used them all to fill my Zen.

Still have all the music I downloaded too, uploaded to my Google Music account.

StupidLikeAFox · 08-02-2019 1:36am

I spent a day downloading a batman film on it when I was about 13. Went to watch it but it turned out to be a porno where the women started puking on each other. Those were the Internet's wild west days.

KungPao · 08-02-2019 1:38am

Used Morpheus, Kazaa (which was good then became riddled with ads and all sorts), then Kazaa lite which was great. Tried one called emule, which was painful, even on a decent connection.

PTH2009 · 08-02-2019 1:42am

Remember downloading songs from it and burning then onto mixed Cds. In 2005 got an iPod and my life changed no more burning songs to cds. Editing and getting album artwork was both fun and frustrsting . Only discovered torrents in the late 2000s

Anyone remember burning videos too Cds and getting frustrated as only some DVD players would play them ???

Dvd recorders are another amazing thing from the past. So revolutary in there day

Twenty Grand · 08-02-2019 1:44am

I used Ares and Limewire.

Downloading 1 song took 45 mins.

patrickbrophy18 · 08-02-2019 1:56am

At the height of their popularity, the standard internet was either a 56K Dial-up Modem or a 64/128K ISDN Connection. The latter was prohibitively expensive. However, if my memory serves me correctly, a 7 minute song would take roughly 13 minutes to download at maximum speed.

To think that Napster started it all and was followed by Morpheus, Limewire, Kazaa and WinMX.

There was also another service called Audiogalaxy. Who remembers that?

TheValeyard · 08-02-2019 5:30am

Wow, some serious memories in here. Probably still have some of those albums from Napster, WinMX, Limewire, etc. Was great using them in college and leaving them run all night and day when the IT department didn't know anything.

08-02-2019 6:36am

I remember not knowing the difference between an MP3 file and a WMA file. Fair enough if you're as big an idiot as I am but I also remember the head of the IT department in the factory I was working in (a close friend) being absolutely baffled why some songs were going from my computer to my player while most other songs were rejected.

demanufactured · 08-02-2019 3:14pm

patrickbrophy18 wrote: »

At the height of their popularity, the standard internet was either a 56K Dial-up Modem or a 64/128K ISDN Connection. The latter was prohibitively expensive. However, if my memory serves me correctly, a 7 minute song would take roughly 13 minutes to download at maximum speed.

To think that Napster started it all and was followed by Morpheus, Limewire, Kazaa and WinMX.

There was also another service called Audiogalaxy. Who remembers that?

Yep, as stated earlier in the thread, audiogalaxy was great, could only download 1 file at a time, but was always reliable.

EagererBeaver · 08-02-2019 3:17pm

cisk wrote: »

Downloading Limewire Pro with Limewire free

This. Very much this.

Limwire, Kazaa and Kazaa Lite and eMule were my go to ones.

Kazaa Lite gave my computer AIDS. Can't remember which one of them gave me the blaster virus.

punisher5112 · 08-02-2019 3:18pm

My tower was riddled by these sites.

It would shoot porn and all sorts of **** up onto the screen..,

Oh wait that was just my viewing history....

How Soon Is Now · 08-02-2019 3:19pm

Used bascially all the software already mentioned in the thread at some point!

Memories!

Spend hour or two downloading one song only to find out its a fecking loop of the same ten seconds over the over!

Or porn always porn!

Pac1Man · 08-02-2019 3:25pm

I remember downloading a particular song. At then end it had a radio cut in where the DJ started to speak so it was obviously recorded direct from the station.

A few months later a friend from school played the same song which had the exact radio cut in at the end which he had recorded himself.

Bizarre that I downloaded it directly from him unknowingly.

Limewire was a haven for viruses though. My PC looked like Tom Hanks in Philadelphia at the end.

Good times.

mcmoustache · 08-02-2019 3:33pm

I used edonkey, emule and kazaa. Thinking back, they were fairly shíte. Torrents were the end of those, especially the pirate bay where the comments let you know that you were downloading what you thought you were downloading.

I just had a look online and it looks like emule is still around. I might give it a try later but first I'll have to boot into my kubuntu partition and launch another kubuntu instance in a VM to launch another kubuntu VM. You can't be too careful out there.

RFOLEY1990 · 08-02-2019 3:34pm

introduced me to a load of songs I never would have known otherwise cause it was a complete lottery when you're downloading what artist would come through

Boom_Bap · 08-02-2019 3:36pm

Still waiting for a couple of mp3's to finish downloading from 16 years ago

mcmoustache · 08-02-2019 3:39pm

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Still waiting for a couple of mp3's to finish downloading from 16 years ago

You should download that program that speeds up your downloads and increases your RAM first. F*cking n00b.

do you remember limewire

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