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Did you get your Limewire Wrapped? (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 15 points 11 months ago (26 children)

Why do I miss that program so much?

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  • [–] 21 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    no vpns, no antivirus software, just downloading pirated music that may or may not take 217846127841 days to download.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    It was just so much simpler then. Aside from the viruses.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    I don't. Those were some rough times, when you didn't know whether or not you'd get the actual MP3, or a recording of a Bill Clinton impersonator selling something. These days it's a lot easier to find direct downloads to the exact track you want, in a guaranteed 320Kbps MP3 or even a lossless format like FLAC.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Does that mean FLAC is the best file format for archiving?

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    It's what I archive all my music in, so I'd say so. You get WAV quality without WAV file sizes.

    When a FLAC (or any lossless) file is not available, I settle for 320Kbps MP3 (and not a single bit less). The quality is decent enough to be used in a live setting (I'm a DJ). Anything less than 320kbps, and you're hurting treble output, which will be noticeable on high-end speakers to anyone under the age of 30.

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  • [+] 2 points 11 months ago (8 children)
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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    No... Things literally were simpler back then as information moved a lot slower and the internet was far less privatised, if at all.

    Your chat logs were saved to your own local drive, not a cloud, and you could delete them. Social media was just your web page you made for free on Geocities or Angelfire. Email spam was mostly chain mail. There were no bots whatsoever cluttering the internet. And so on.

    And, FWIW, there were no such things as apps. Just programs. Apps started with the smart phone.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    there were no such things as apps

    FWIW, people were talking about "killer apps" for various platforms back in the 1980s.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    I don't know what to tell you. It certainly wasn't a word I or any one I spoke to used to describe programs.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    No one you knew read PC Magazine? There was an article from 1989 (and quite a few more in the early to mid 90s).

    OTOH, I do agree that "program" was more common than "application".

    Mostly -- your comment about "no apps" dredged up the phrase "killer apps" in my brain somehow.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Nope. I was a kid around the 80s/90s and we had no dedicated computer teachers; although universities probably had access to those types of publications. That information was pretty niche in Australia for regular people, especially kids, and we were always at least 2 years behind the US on everything.

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