This was cutting edge tech... I remember the excitement of replacing floppy discs with CDRs...
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Limewire was the shit. But I'm so old I started with Napster
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Off the top of my head others I remember were: Kazaa, Morpheus, Frostwire (when limewire went to shit). I'd say Kazaa was the one I used the most though during its time. Moved to torrents for movies/tv shows pretty quickly and limewire/frostwire for mp3s. Piratebay, ISOHunt, Demonoid (god i was so happy getting an invite there at 13 years old), mininova.
I was an addict. Would download shit I didn't need and just use it because. Literally spent years learning how to animate in 3dsMax just because my brother in law told me that he "stole" a program that cost thousands of dollars. I think the keygen I downloaded for that was actually my first "letter" from Comcast. It scared the shit out of me at 14.
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Bear share, warez, there were private aol chat room with bots you would ping to email you files, then irc was like hitting gold when I was a kid going through warez chatrooms for everything.
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I don't know why but "Bear Share" became a joke between me and my friends. It was like we made fun of one kid for using it instead of whatever we were using at the time. I don't remember why but that's all I remember about it. Makes me laugh now. Joking with one of our friends about what P2P client was the best.
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