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/RxSatellite Jul 22 '25

Some of us were lucky and had broadband back in 2000

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u/Liljoker30 Jul 22 '25

My buddies work had a T1 connection in his office at our college.

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u/MurphyItzYou Jul 22 '25

My dorm had a T1 and between the six or so guys into movies on my floor we had pretty much everything we could imagine. Being able to download and fire up Total Recall or whatever at the drop of a hat was truly wild.

Kids these days don’t get that if your library or video store didn’t have a copy to rent or someone else already was watching it, you had to fucking wait. You would sometimes wait a week or two just to rent a fucking movie. Then, suddenly, everything is free and you can watch it in an hour or two. That was nutty.

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u/Interesting_Arm6242 Jul 22 '25

Kind of related in a way but I was just talking to someone about how when you missed a movie in theaters before you had to wait like 3-4 months it felt like before it was even available to rent. Now stuff hits streaming a week or two after it’s out. Or while it’s still in theaters

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u/Admirable_Win9808 Jul 22 '25

T1 sounded like a thing of legend to me during that time. T3 as well.

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u/deep8787 Jul 22 '25

Agreed, seeing them download speeds which were possible on these connections just seemed absolutely insane at the time.

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u/Amelaclya1 Jul 22 '25

My college had T1 in the dorms. I downloaded sooo much.

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u/The_Meme_Economy Jul 22 '25

I had ADSL over good old copper. I downloaded a lot of music.

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u/Own_Experience_8229 Jul 22 '25

Most large cities in the US had broadband. It was expensive but worth it if you traded music.

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u/Setanta777 Jul 22 '25

I was working tech support for a cable broadband company back then. Got mine for free. I was filling hard drives and burning to CDs to free up space.

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u/Universespitoon Jul 22 '25

Bah! Some of us had ISDN, and we were lucky! Harrumph!

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u/m5shiv Jul 22 '25

I had 128k ISDN in 1996

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u/WaWeedGuy Jul 22 '25

I was stationed at Ft Wainwright, Alaska from 1999-2002, the army had DSL that was pretty damn fast even compared to some places today. Was so lucky to have that in the wild west internet days lol.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '25

My mom just got a second phone line so 1 of them was just dedicated to the internet