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I'm curious: how did they meet? Secure irc?

• shiftpgdn 10y ago
  Look up the history of what.cd
  • zymhan 10y ago
    And now I'm sad again.
• Fnoord 10y ago
  (I'm not OP) Experienced the same. I never got into this via IRC. My main thing was music genres, but also on the side quite some non-fiction(documentaries), and a few fiction. I met some awesome people on Soulseek and went from there into DCPP and FTP. This was around 2007-9. DCPP being the frontend for the users. It was a gentlemen's club and from there you just meet different people who see your collection and who invite you into different circles. Back then, there was an auto trader app written in Java, using self signed SSL certificates (w/o pinning). I never understood why they didn't just use rsync over SSH, but it takes more than 1 person to change such habits.
• wingworks 10y ago
  Also read the "how music got free" book, covers allot of that stuff.