Gwen Pepperoni: ask a millenial to tell you about the days of napster and limewire and next thing you know they're in a rocking chair with a corncob pipe on a big wooden porch

ask a millenial to tell you about the days of napster and limewire and next thing you know they're in a rocking chair with a corncob pipe on a big wooden porch

"...and then I was defragmenting my hard drive because of a virus I caught downloading the 20th remix of Freak on a Leash by KORN. Which was the style at the time"

😂😂 “defrag”

"Every joke song was labelled Weird Al and every ska song was labelled Reel Big Fish. It was a simpler time."

my favorite was like a really shitty parody of cocaine called rogaine that had weird al on the file

I still have a collection of songs I was sent by people in an Audiogalaxy group in 2002 (and no one remembers Audiogalaxy except me, it seems!)

i remember the audiogalaxy

people don’t know what it’s like to have to listen to never going to give you up vs that stupid fucking video as a link

future historians would do well to examine the rick roll as a sign of things to come

funny thing is I had a corncob pipe back then

I took 6 weeks sick leave from work when I found out you could download stuff for free. I just liked watching the % go up

"Well, ya see, kiddo, back in those days, we didn't have any iTunes Stores or Spotify. If we wanted MP3s, we had to walk 15 miles uphill in the snow both ways to get our dial-up to connect. And if you were lucky and said your prayers by night, sometimes your MP3 was the actual song and not a virus."

thinking about Canon Rock by guitarist JerryC

My dad and I downloaded movies on Limewire right up into the 2010s, when we were sent a nasty letter by Spectrum to cut it out. 🤨

we used to have porches it's true

excuse me, I will have you know that this is a handheld, manual vaporizer known as the vaporgenie and it is filled with the dankest of green would you like some mp3s?

And a boomer standing next to you going, vinyl rules man. 🤣

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