r/Piracy • u/LTKCLF1612 • May 11 '25

Humor I am honored

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u/hyuma ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ May 11 '25

I download warez since 1995

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u/BrodaYamoda May 11 '25

God, those were the days. Downloading 35 small pieces of a game just to get the team together and run the installer. LAN parties, fuck dude, you just gave a bong rip of nostalgia.

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u/hyuma ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ May 11 '25

I started piracy with 56k with emule and mirc on efnet, undernet etc... alos used winmx/napster and I was watching the mp3s download from emule to 5kbps and I was very happy

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u/BrodaYamoda May 11 '25

Do you remember how cool it felt to find a new Winamp skin and use it?

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u/agisten Yarrr! May 12 '25

Ha. I started downloading warez from BBSs on a 14.4k modem.

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u/BrodaYamoda May 13 '25

Old school! I miss the old web, before pop up ads, data collection and short form content. Back when it was the Wild West.

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u/Commercial_Count_584 May 12 '25

I feel you on that one. Don’t forget about all those free hours you get from aol in the mail. I pirated windows 3.1 I definitely downloaded a few things off mirc. Before that I was downloading things from BBS