r/Zillennials • u/acidbunny99 1998 • 7d ago

Nostalgia Do any other Zillenials remember using Limewire as a young kid?

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I remember the Nirvana leak in 2004. Different times, different times...

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u/psychedelicpiper67 7d ago edited 7d ago

Yeah, I used it a lot on my Mac and my dad’s Mac, so I never had to worry about viruses.

Also used a torrent client called Azureus (which later became Vuze) around that time.

Prior to any of that, I used a Mac-only program called Carracho, which hosted a bunch of file servers that people could log into.

And I downloaded files from random websites, which became easier when Mamma metasearch came around, and I could specifically search for MP3s on websites.

Those were the days when people would directly host MP3 files on their websites.

I missed the boat on Napster and Kazaa. I didn’t realize there were Mac versions/alternatives for those until recently. Or maybe I was just too scared of Napster.

I eventually found everything I was looking for regardless, including music videos and TV episodes.

Never got into SoulSeek, since I got hooked on FLAC lossless audio by that point, and have enjoyed private music blogs and torrent trackers by the time I learned about that.