Having lived through the age of Kazaa and Morpheus, where it was on the end-user to scour the shady web looking for magical codecs that would let our silly anim

Having lived through the age of Kazaa and Morpheus, where it was on the end-user to scour the shady web looking for magical codecs that would let our silly anime videos render properly, I don't particularly miss it. Despite the fact that Windows Media Classic + K-Lite Codec pack perhaps ran a little faster on my student laptop, I remember being overjoyed that a single, standalone binary (VLC) could play everything I threw at it. It could even fit on my thumb-drive, allowing me to run it on a friend or family's laptop if they were having trouble with a particular video file.