do you remember limewire

Beta Ray Bill · 08-02-2019 3:50pm

Jesus I remember Limewire well!!!

It was like having unprotected sex with the Internet!!!!!
And not the classy Internet, I'm talking about the village bicycle internet!

Mcafee used to go Joe 90 when I started downloading!

Yer Da sells Avon · 08-02-2019 3:50pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0

I'll go and make a cup of tea and a sandwich. Hopefully, when I get back, the song will have downloaded.

mcmoustache · 08-02-2019 4:00pm

grahambo wrote: »

It was like having unprotected sex with the Internet!!!!!
And not the classy Internet, I'm talking about the village bicycle internet!

That's exactly what it was. I should have been a bit more suspicious downloading Crazy_Frog_Motorcycle_Song_EMusic_Exclusive.exe.

limnam · 08-02-2019 4:05pm

Esat no limits. Auto dialer at 18:01 disconnect at 07:59.....soul seek...bliss...

Back when songs you downloaded were actually listened to.

blade1 · 08-02-2019 4:30pm

I use to use speed.cd
If you shared it sped up your downloading.
Only problem was 02 only gave me 7.5gb of data for the month!

demanufactured · 08-02-2019 11:13pm

Remember NO CD cracks for games.

cml387 · 08-02-2019 11:19pm

How the download graph would start off heroically high and then relentlessly tail off to something like 1 millibyte per hour.

hynesie08 · 08-02-2019 11:20pm

Jaysus the random titles some songs would have made you think you'd hit the jackpot.... Enter sandman- Metallica Megadeth Slash U2 Pearl Jam live rare unplugged.....

Download, open, it's the ****ing Pina colada song.......

Charmeleon · 08-02-2019 11:25pm

I’m friends with someone on Facebook from Holland and was chatting a couple of years ago about how we know each other. They said we started chatting on Napster in 2000. I don’t remember it having a chat function but they are adamant I was downloading a fairly obscure song from them and we started a chat that moved to email and then Facebook. Anyone remember Napster chat?

Ronan|Raven · 08-02-2019 11:37pm

demanufactured wrote: »

Remember NO CD cracks for games.

And the beautiful installers for the rips of games. And the demo scene....

Ronan|Raven · 08-02-2019 11:39pm

limnam wrote: »

Esat no limits. Auto dialer at 18:01 disconnect at 07:59.....soul

I am still bitter at receiving the letter informing me there were infact limits.

LifeOfBwian · 08-02-2019 11:47pm

I wememba winmx and wikipedia.org/wiki/Scour_Inc

demanufactured · 09-02-2019 12:46am

Ronan|Raven wrote: »

I am still bitter at receiving the letter informing me there were infact limits.

Yep, I got one too.
Then got UTV internet flat rate dial up.

Nigel Fairservice · 09-02-2019 2:48am

I used it in college and Napster before it. I remember you'd be 95% through a download and the other person would cut you off :pac: God be with the days of 10 hour downloads!

Ted Plain · 09-02-2019 9:55am

Download on Limewire, play on Winamp.

Wanderer78 · 09-02-2019 9:58am

Utorrent still going strong for me, I have HD files coming down in a few minutes, tis mental the speeds we get nowadays

limnam · 10-02-2019 11:33am

Ted Plain wrote: »

Download on Limewire, play on Winamp.

winamp it really whips the llama's ass

Still using it.

Capt'n Midnight · 10-02-2019 4:15pm

Nigel Fairservice wrote: »

I used it in college and Napster before it. I remember you'd be 95% through a download and the other person would cut you off :pac: God be with the days of 10 hour downloads!

At least with torrents they'd resume later on.

For some torrents there were .PAR files that contained redundant information so gaps could be filled in, in case you didn't get 100% downloaded.

batgoat · 10-02-2019 4:28pm

Ronan|Raven wrote: »

And the beautiful installers for the rips of games. And the demo scene....

Fun fact in relation to no Cd Cracks, Max Payne 2 on steam uses the cracked version.. :P

Sephiroth_dude · 10-02-2019 4:30pm

Never bothered with limewire, I used winmx.

10-02-2019 4:39pm

Limewire was great, you could always mitigate the risk of viruses by listening to part of a track to ensure it wasn't dodgy.

The only problem in our house was the first phone bill we got after installing dial-up, I think I was about 350 quid. This would have been around the turn of the millénium, so that was punts.

Also, there was one local busybody who had figured out that if she kept dialling the house phone, she would eventually manage to knock off the Internet. I wouldn't mind, but she was only ringing in hope of getting some scandal. Can't tell you the amount of Limewire disuptions that wagon caused. She put years on me.

Sephiroth_dude · 10-02-2019 4:42pm

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

The only problem in our house was the first phone bill we got after installing dial-up, I think I was about 350 quid. This would have been around the turn of the millénium, so that was punts.

Same here, we got a package with Esat whereby if we only went online after 6 it was flat rate for the month.

HBC08 · 10-02-2019 4:46pm

Limewire! I remember I used it all the time. Was living in Korea at the time and it had the fastest broadband speed in the world (maybe it still does) It was reliable enough , could download Lost a few hours after it screened you in the States.Would take about 90 mins to download, this was 2005!

bilbot79 · 10-02-2019 4:47pm

It's FrostWire now isn't it?

PropJoe10 · 10-02-2019 4:47pm

Yeah. It was no eDonkey, though.

demanufactured · 10-02-2019 4:48pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Never bothered with limewire, I used winmx.

Was still online when this video went up.

https://youtu.be/ycwuV1jRz-M

10-02-2019 4:49pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Same here, we got a package with Esat whereby if we only went online after 6 it was flat rate for the month.

they were reefing us, in fairness.

I now pay 20 quid for all-you-can-eat data. Sure, tech has improved but back then I think we were paying 60p per hour, off peak! Which was approximately equivalent to downloading one Garth Brooks track.

PopePalpatine · 10-02-2019 4:50pm

I feel like I dodged a bullet using BeeMP3.

10-02-2019 4:54pm

Do ye remember records though lads?..massive black discs you'd only fit half an album on each side..fair inconvenient..

Capt'n Midnight · 10-02-2019 7:42pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Do ye remember records though lads?..massive black discs you'd only fit half an album on each side..fair inconvenient..

Yeah I remember records

But a phonograph cylinder doesn't have sides

10-02-2019 9:21pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

But a phonograph cylinder doesn't have sides

The hipsters will have them on the go next..

Dravokivich · 11-02-2019 12:37am

Charmeleon wrote: »

I’m friends with someone on Facebook from Holland and was chatting a couple of years ago about how we know each other. They said we started chatting on Napster in 2000. I don’t remember it having a chat function but they are adamant I was downloading a fairly obscure song from them and we started a chat that moved to email and then Facebook. Anyone remember Napster chat?

WinMX had a chat function.

Ash.J.Williams · 11-02-2019 12:41am

my first download was a butthole surfers video and it wasn't quite what i ordered

Ronan|Raven · 11-02-2019 12:48am

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

At least with torrents they'd resume later on.

For some torrents there were .PAR files that contained redundant information so gaps could be filled in, in case you didn't get 100% downloaded.

Weren't par files more common on Usenet?

Dravokivich · 11-02-2019 12:49am

Ronan|Raven wrote: »

Weren't par files more common on Usenet?

Still are. I also believe IRC may have used it. Recall stuff from that being split.

dragona · 11-02-2019 1:22am

I remember trying to download Disney films for the kiddies, Cinderella my ass, total porn!
Had to look through all of them! Fun.......

AllForIt · 11-02-2019 1:25am

I remember Limewire.

Aglomerado · 11-02-2019 10:22am

Charmeleon wrote: »

I’m friends with someone on Facebook from Holland and was chatting a couple of years ago about how we know each other. They said we started chatting on Napster in 2000. I don’t remember it having a chat function but they are adamant I was downloading a fairly obscure song from them and we started a chat that moved to email and then Facebook. Anyone remember Napster chat?

Yeah, you could chat to someone you were downloading from. I was downloading a song one evening and the 'host' messaged me and asked me 'do you sk8?' I replied 'no', they came back with 'wrong answer' and cut off the download!:D

11-02-2019 10:54am

Ah getting songs and things on Usenet always used to be fun. "Free Agent" was the program I used back then and you would download your song over anything from 10 to 100 individual Usenet Posts. Then when you had them all you got to decode them from their Hex formatting or whatever it was in. And only then find out if you had a real useable file or not.

IRC was a step up from that. You could leave a script running on your college PC - which other people could log into and upload stuff for "credits" which allowed them to then download stuff from your music (or porn) collection. Forgot it and left it running over the Summer of 2nd Year Holidays and returned in 3rd year to find the hard disk over flowing with - a diverse wonderland of material.

Limewire after all that seems like Science Fiction level convenience. Never once got a virus from Limewire. Then again I was never stupid enough to download something I wanted - realize it had come in a .exe or other executable format - and decided to run it anyway

andekwarhola · 11-02-2019 11:47am

Audiogalaxy was great. I ended up finally sticking with Soul Seek which actually still works.

t1h9mgqsxopj0r · 11-02-2019 1:52pm

I remember trying to convinced my mam that the computer was just f()ked on its own and that I never downloaded anything that would cause a massive virus and boll€k up the computer. She believed me once and brought the computer into a repair shop only for the man to rat me out. Cost her hundreds (back in the day) and I wasn't allowed to use the computer again for ages after that. I was devestated. Obviously a while later and some convincing and trust she bought me a new computer and course, I just had to download limewire again and not too long after the computer started slowing down. I never told her about the computer suddenly slowing and I just let it run its course. Limewire was statan.

Deebles McBeebles · 11-02-2019 1:55pm

LimeWire, the download service that allowed full access to strangers computers unless they had the download folder sealed off. Those were the days.

Gadgetman496 · 11-02-2019 2:30pm

Used Limewire Pro for years and genuinely never got hit with a virus. Downloaded mostly music and have it all to this day in a folder on a backup drive. Just for the craic, I dug it out today and scanned it, all was clear.

I remember too, you learned to nearly know what to avoid the more you used it. I never installed the free version so I don't know it the Prog. itself was riddled or I was just pure lucky, either way I loved it back in the day.

sbsquarepants · 11-02-2019 2:32pm

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.

Serves you right, nonce lover:mad:

I once took 2 weeks to download an NERD album - it's was like winning the lotto though when it finally arrived.

In search of - still one of my favourite albums!

Grayson · 11-02-2019 2:40pm

Musa Howling Teamster wrote: »

I remember trying to convinced my mam that the computer was just f()ked on its own and that I never downloaded anything that would cause a massive virus and boll€k up the computer. She believed me once and brought the computer into a repair shop only for the man to rat me out. Cost her hundreds (back in the day) and I wasn't allowed to use the computer again for ages after that. I was devestated. Obviously a while later and some convincing and trust she bought me a new computer and course, I just had to download limewire again and not too long after the computer started slowing down. I never told her about the computer suddenly slowing and I just let it run its course. Limewire was statan.

I did PC repairs back in the day and the amount of malware I would find on some of them. I remember one of the was so bad that the malware program I was using deleted 600k files.

I told them that they needed to backup and wipe it. And scan the backups before they put them back on the computer.

I loved limewire and programs like that but jesus they were like a digital hand grenade for users who didn't know what they were doing.

batgoat · 11-02-2019 2:45pm

Gadgetman496 wrote: »

Used Limewire Pro for years and genuinely never got hit with a virus. Downloaded mostly music and have it all to this day in a folder on a backup drive. Just for the craic, I dug it out today and scanned it, all was clear.

I remember too, you learned to nearly know what to avoid the more you used it. I never installed the free version so I don't know it the Prog. itself was riddled or I was just pure lucky, either way I loved it back in the day.

Generally people never checked what the file extension was. Or downloading games/applications but it was just a virus.

StupidLikeAFox · 11-02-2019 4:38pm

dragona wrote: »

I remember trying to download Disney films for the kiddies, Cinderella my ass, total porn!
Had to look through all of them! Fun.......

Was "Cinderella my ass" the name of the movie?

Cabaal · 11-02-2019 5:11pm

All this limewire business,
was an awful bit of software, Bittorrent is where it was at
DC++ was also great

For Forks Sake · 11-02-2019 5:14pm

Deleted User wrote: »

The hipsters will have them on the go next..

Gazzmonkey · 11-02-2019 5:21pm

Ruraldweller56 wrote: »

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

Limewire. Jesus it seems like yesterday

You might want to Google frostwire, that p2p network was abandoned a few months ago.

https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/frostwire-alternatives/

I've since moved over to bit torrent.

do you remember limewire

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