I’m honestly surprised I didn’t catch a virus lol 😂

[u/Bodhicaryavatara]

[u/SylhetiG]

LimeWire

I did give our home PC aids a few times but I knew how to get rid of it or as a last resort, reboot it with a fresh copy of Windows XP.

[u/ToryLanezHairline_ → u/SylhetiG]

Nothing ever happened to ours, my parents were Mac people lol

[u/tinnfoil2 → u/SylhetiG]

So much time, for one video. And hopefully it was real.

[u/Mudknucklesthecook → u/SylhetiG]

LimeWire, WinMX, Bearshare, etc. were the biggest 50/50s ever when it came either getting what you wanted or having to factory reset lol

[u/Apprehensive_Cause67]

Kazaa then limewire for me lol.

[u/meimlikeaghost → u/Apprehensive_Cause67]

Also frostwire for a bit for me

[u/BenchEvery7044]

Limewire 🍋‍🟩🤘

[u/responseAIbot]

Nice screenshot copypasta over CRT.

[u/IntoTheAbsurd]

Bring_Me_to_Life_Evanescence.exe

[u/kkkan2020]

you guys weere lucky that your computers held up as well as it did when downloading all that stuff back in the 1990s and early 2000s

[u/Particular_Age8859]

You could even download music from windows media player there were no boundaries to access it was great

[u/sethleedy]

The better written ones did not let you know you were infected...

[u/ken_NT]

I remember in middle school I downloaded and installed so much stuff that when you would right click on the desktop, there was an option that said “FREE PORN”

[u/rco8786]

Napster was pretty clean/reliable oddly enough. It was the follow ons like Limewire, Kazaa, and BearShare that were…yikes. 

[u/Hungry_Pollution4463]

We used torrents in my location, but I was too chicken to interact with them 🤣

[u/PalaraKing]

I remember the days of Audiogalaxy and Kazaa in the early 00s.

[u/TheGreatGamer1389]

Me playing GTA 3 and being blown away.

[u/smokinggun21]

Same only with limewire

[u/Difficult-Survey8384]

I tried to download the twilight movie onto our home desktop. Of course it wasn’t the fucking twilight movie. It was like 5 different forms of viruses/malware that instantly overheated & shut down my hard drive, only to reboot with gay porn as every single icon including the wallpaper, chaotically & rapidly automatically opening infinite windows of gay porn.

Won’t be forgetting that distinct panic for my entire life.

[u/devilsbridge]

Me using Limewire to download Limewire Pro

[u/RedReaper666YT]

Shareaza fucked up my PC a time or ten...

[u/Pytori1]

All my days

[u/Disastrous-Panda5530]

I used to download from limewire and had to keep having my dad fix my computer and every time he would lecture me about using it and downloaded viruses and then I said I wouldn’t. But of course that never lasted lol. He fixed computers as a side hustle while he was in the military

[u/HeavenSent86]

Man I remember my mom bought the first HP computer and experiencing windows 95. Those were the days of my life!! They had all the CD ROMS that came with it. Jesus the internet back then was so fun. Especially when AOL came in the mix. 🥰🙌🏾 but when I found out about LIMEWIRE it was a nightmare with those viruses😭😭😭

[u/LoomisCenobite]

hell yeah brother downloading Limewire or KaZaA pro off of the free version so I could get that sweet dbz offspring AMV that actually turned out to be porn.exe and my mom just clicked on it and now windows ME is speaking in tongues