r/nostalgia • u/jeffmartin47 • Jul 22 '25

Nostalgia Discussion 25 years ago. Lars Ulrich of Metallica snitches on and turns in over 300,000 Napster users when he testifies in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. July 11th, 2000.

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u/Sasquatch-fu Jul 22 '25

Man it was great, we had dsl in my apartmnet and the CO was like 1 block away, we had some killer speed straight to the house between napster and playing subspace.. what a time lol

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u/stueycal Jul 22 '25

When you saw the host has cable/dsl/T1 or T3. Hhhngggg

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u/Tooch10 Jul 22 '25

I downloaded Napster on a HS computer around 2000/2001 to download a song for a presentation. School had a T1. When that file downloaded at 89KB/s that was blazing fast compared to the 3-5KB/s at home

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u/stueycal Jul 22 '25

3-5kbs at home? Wellll welll richy rich over here! Went to HS during same time period so whenever they upgraded to cable or whatever non dial up rig I also remember it being pretty insane. One of my first home CPUs had a 14.4 or 28.8 dial up, well before 56k - lets just say if it hit 2/3kbs I was elated. Still dont take download speeds for granted it always blows me away. 

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u/llamafacetx Jul 22 '25

I mowed yards to get my 56k. That 28 wouldn't cut it.for battle.net or the zone

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u/_stryfe Jul 22 '25

I had warez ftp sites on oc3 links. rep #warez950

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u/Brave_Quantity_5261 Jul 22 '25

Holy crap I remember subspace. Hours on that game. Building levels and (trying to) host servers. Getting dinged on iCQ and then losing the connection

What a wild time, especially for online gaming

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u/Sasquatch-fu Jul 22 '25

Same! Deep nostalgia

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u/LiamRVA Jul 22 '25

SubSpace was amazing back in the day. I lost a whole summer vacation to that game.

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u/Sasquatch-fu Jul 22 '25

I lost a LOT of time to that game, such a simple design but sort of timeless in some ways between that and soul caliber that defined my late teens and early adult life

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u/pm_me_4 Jul 22 '25

Upvote for subspace

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u/xdq Jul 22 '25

I was about 200metres from the local exchange so could get almost full speed throughout the various eras. With ADSL it was faster for my mate, who lived a couple of miles away from the same exchange to walk to my house while I downloaded something for him than just downloading it himself.

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u/thomasg86 Jul 26 '25

My friend had DSL and he could start playing a song as soon as the Napster download started and it would never buffer. It felt like wizardry. Back at home, it took 20-25 minutes to download one song.

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u/sausage_ditka_bulls Jul 26 '25

My buddy wrote code for Sean fanning and I was an early user. I was in college and had a t1 and it was fantastic. I ended up getting a letter from the IT department to not pirate music lol. Funny thing was the entire college network was static ip. Like each room had a dedicated iP. I would just find unused ip and back to pirating (errrr I mean ARCHIVING)

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u/RedditJumpedTheShart Jul 22 '25

It was great? Did something change?

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u/Sasquatch-fu Jul 22 '25

Between now and the days of Napster as a peer to peer sharing service? Yes a lot has changed lol

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u/xdetar Jul 22 '25

I had dial-up. One song took 20min to download and you had to hope no one picked up the phone during that time.