Limewire.

  • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I was an 80’s kid, and we had the best Saturday morning cartoons.
    Transformers, GI Joe, Scooby Doo, Thundar the Barbarian, Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends, Superfriends, Hurculoids, etc.

  • auginator@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    My ex-wife it’s been six years since she left. She cheated on me, got knocked up and took off with the boyfriend.

    She was super religious. She treated me like garbage but she prayed all the time.

    All this time and sometimes I think of her coming back. I know better but my heart doesn’t.

  • LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Life before cellphones and internet.

    Did you know in 1990 only .25% of the world’s population (12.5 million) had cellphones and only .05% (2.8 million) had internet?

    It feels like we sacrificed local community and connection for global information overload and disconnection sometimes.

    • VacuumVigilante@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      GenX, here. You are so very, very wrong. Phones and internet have made anxiety disorders endemic. We’re constantly bombarded with information, alerts, opinions, information and misinformation…

      Young people have never experienced what it’s like to have privacy. To leave the house and be totally unreachable. To get answering machine messages that you had no obligation to immediately respond to.

      I’m in big tech and helped develop all this shit. We made it addictive on purpose. I’d love to go back to how things were in the 90s, and I’m not waxing nostalgic. Things were objectively better before all this crap.

      • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        meh. yeah it’s been bad for mental health but… what did you read while shitting, the back of the shampoo bottle?

      • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        I don’t think you understand what anxiety is if you think being totally unreachable as a solution to modern anxiety…

          • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
            2·
            3 months ago

            Nah. “Young people have never experienced what it’s like to have privacy. To leave the house and be totally unreachable…”

            That is explicitly what OP said. To be totally unreachable in the literal sense can easily be a source of anxiety on its own.

            • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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              3 months ago

              Ah I see, yeah you’re right!

              That is something that occurs to me too. It’s weird to me now, imagining couples separating to go to work or whatever, and you just gotta believe everything is gonna be fine, and if there were an emergency, someone has to be near the right landline.

              Although I grew up with earlier cellphones and pagers, I got my first cell way later than a lot of highschool kids.

              But yes, definitely, If me and my wife couldn’t reach each other during the day, that’d be a ton of anxiety! The world’s too insane these days to not have rapid communication on hand.

              I only wish technology evolved as a tool for the user and the people, rather than primarily as content consumption and surveillance devices.

              Then it would be more normal to have a setup like we do: We chat on Signal and can send our location voluntarily and it stays between us, without a dozen third parties quietly listening in, analyzing, and selling that information.

              I do however, think there would also be a certain serene peace in being unreachable by undesirable contacts but not by loved ones.

              For example, it’s dystopian how non-emergency jobs evolved to expect that they can just zip a message to you whenever they feel like, and you’re almost coerced to receive it and respond, and setting boundaries against that can be risky. It brings an unwanted cop or nanny into our personal lives.

    • MochiGoesMeow@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Especially in our current timeline. My alcoholic tendencies are at an all time high. Sigh.

      But damn it feels better than being sober and seeing the idiotic timeline come to pass.

      I felt this one in my bones.

  • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    Dude limewire was great. Nice logo, good color scheme, had pretty much everything. Other things have just gotten better in some ways, and worse in others. (Torrents are often way better quality, but it was nice being able to search limewire vs. searching the web and wading through sketchy torrent sites).

      • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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        3 months ago

        Tbh, that was part of the appeal. You accidentally download the wrong thing and your computer throws an error message that you never get to read because it shuts down too quick and you know you fucked up. I can’t explain it, but the danger was part of the fun.

      • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        3 months ago

        Yes for sure! But if you didn’t download executables or other files that could contain code, you were usually ok.

        The crazy thing about it is people got digital music from all kinds of sources back then - mix CDs, recordings, etc, and would create the title/artist/album tags by hand, so you’d see all kinds of wrong information.

        Like you could probably download “Dancing in the Moonlight - Van Morrison.mp3” on limewire, but really you’d be getting either “Moon Dance” by Van Morrison, “Dancing in the Moonlight” by King Crimson, or rarely, something else entirely.

  • Shardikprime@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Do I miss physical gaming magazines? Yes, yes I do

    Were they awful? Content wise, no, I actually believe transitioning to web magazines turned the whole industry into a shit show

    I loved the game posters that came folded into the magazines.

    So what was bad about them?

    Well they pushed you too collect them.

    That amount of paper cannot possibly be good for the environment