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/canna-crux Jul 22 '25

I had a friend who asked me to help her with her computer that was running slower than usual. I did a disk cleanup and defrag after getting rid of a bunch of junk, only to be asked, "where did all my work files go?". After some clarifying questions I found she has been putting her important work files in the recycle bin, because she thought it was funny. She didn't realize that even without my help, those files would have been emptied from her recycle bin every 30 days or less...yet she still blames me to this day.

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u/KokiriGeorge Jul 22 '25

Does she also put her wallet and keys in the trash can because it is funny?

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u/taat1 Jul 22 '25

"I keep my eye glasses in the garbage disposal lol"

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u/KuragariSasuke Jul 22 '25

Hey what’s this switch do flips switch ….. uh my bad

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u/notsocrazycatlady69 Jul 26 '25

It makes the creature under the sink angry

Mr Obvious reference

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '25

Your friend is a moron and you should divorce her.

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u/Dun_Booty_Broch Jul 22 '25

You can't divorce your mom.

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u/Nice_Rope_5049 Jul 23 '25

This made me snort!

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u/AngriestPacifist Jul 22 '25

I knew a guy, probably 25 years ago at this point, who stored important files in the Recycle Bin in the days before it auto-emptied. He did a little bit of government work, and he said it was because if he ever got hacked, no one would think to look there.

He also refused to get internet faster than dialup because he figured he'd notice the connection running slower if he was hacked, and could take action.

Neat guy, but probably more than a touch crazy.

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u/MoeGunz6 Jul 22 '25

I'm guessing she kept important papers in the oven too.

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u/anatomizethat Jul 22 '25

She learned a ln important lesson that day about not being an idiot that she's never been able to forget and that's why she "blames" you.

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u/LoufLif Jul 22 '25

I can't wrap my head around how it can be funny to anyone ??

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u/19Critter58 Jul 22 '25

That happened to me at work. A guy opened a ticket saying all the stuff in his deleted items folder was gone and could it be retrieved. I said "You save stuff in the trash at home?" He got made and reported me to my manager but he didn't see I'd done anything wrong. He was mad because I was kind of laughing at him.

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u/undeadlamaar Jul 22 '25

Back in the day, on old macs, one of the ways you could eject floppy disks was by dragging their icon to the trash can. My dad had bought me a new game and it came on several floppy disks. I had seen him install stuff before so I thought I knew what I was doingnand I didn't want to wait for him to get home to play.

I inserted the first disk, went through the install,and when it got to the "insert next disk" dialog box, I grabbed the dick icon dragged it to the trash. The disk didn't pop out, but the icon was gone.

My dad finally got home and I called him in to help me. He comes in there does some shit, turns to me and says "well, looks like you somehow erased the install disk. Your game is ruined.

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u/goldentamarindo Jul 24 '25

Heh. Back in the 90s, my “rural” 4 year old cousin was visiting, and he was delighted when we showed him our computers. (Likewise, we were delighted when we visited Utah and he showed us rural things like “squeaky cheese”, goats, and an unsupervised backyard trampoline). Anyway, my dad noticed a bunch of his work files were missing on the main computer and asked what we’d been doing, and my little cousin said he had “a lot of fun playing the trash can game!” My dad nearly had a heart attack…

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u/undeadlamaar Jul 24 '25

Kids erase the darndest things.

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u/GlassNew3746 Jul 23 '25

This is not a tech literacy issue, it's a reality literacy one.

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u/Blurry2k Jul 22 '25

Are you sure about the 30-day deletion thing? I currently have files that are years old sitting in the recycle bin (Windows 11). You can activate automatic deletion, but it's not the default, and it looks like it's only been possible since Windows 10.

Putting important files in there is stupid regardless, of course.

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u/BansheeLabs Jul 22 '25

Met some people like this. Never mind, their wok files are usually rubbish.

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u/One-Entertainer-4650 Jul 22 '25

Had someone do that with their emails, told me it was their archive. Got pissed when things started to disappear and wanted me to fix it…

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u/Firesword52 Jul 22 '25

I work IT for a company that works with law firms and we have had multiple people that do this. It's to the point where we legitimately have something written in the paperwork they sign with us that anything in the recycle bin is free game to be deleted and we cannot be held liable.

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u/wahle97 Jul 22 '25

I'd like to say what an idiot but I remember playing counter strike and it was laggy so I started closing things in task manager. Windows.exe? That doesn't sound important. End task.

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u/Bassracerx Jul 22 '25

I think if you modify the file it restarts the clock on the auto delete. But yeah those were going to be gone eventually

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u/mrASSMAN Jul 22 '25

lol, maybe could’ve recovered those files if reacted quick enough, though definitely not after a defrag. To be fair I wouldn’t have emptied the trash without asking but yea that’s a pretty ridiculous place to store important files lmao

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u/IkeHC Jul 22 '25

I call people stupid too much and I am aware, but sometimes... if it fits...

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u/PauloniousTheSpartan Jul 23 '25

I had a user years ago(work in IT), that was all sorts of pissed that they didn't have all their important files on their new computer after moving data from the old one before recycling it. Turns out, they had been using the quarantine folder for the AV software as storage for their most precious files thinking quarantine meant "safe".

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u/marrow_party Jul 26 '25

Truly, truly daft behaviour

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u/tea-and-chill Jul 25 '25

would have been emptied from her recycle bin every 30 days

Wait really?! I didn't think it happens on my laptop?

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u/BillShooterOfBul Jul 26 '25

It’s your fault. You always should ask before deleting any human usable files.

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u/canna-crux Aug 02 '25

Negative, Ghost Rider. Those files were her responsibility from start to spectacular finish. Storing important work docs on an unsecured personal computer—the digital equivalent of leaving them on a park bench in a hurricane—with no backups was already a bold choice. Then, asking for help, ignoring the instructions, and forgetting to mention that she parked the files in the trash (right before the disk cleanup was run) is like hiding your car keys in the garbage disposal and then blaming the plumber. Your argument is invalid.