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Anyone else remember having their mom's boyfriend getting you to remove the animated porn lady walking on top of the windows bar while explaining that he had no

Anyone else remember having their mom's boyfriend getting you to remove the animated porn lady walking on top of the windows bar while explaining that he had no idea how that got there?

jorvi 4y ago
VirtuaGirl. I made a good chunk of money in my small town being the computer repair guy (well, kid). Just you referring to that blight brought up memories of my entire digital youth. Having my parents shepherd my and my PC to friends so we could LAN, Hamachi (virtual LAN), Kazaa, Limewire / Frostwire, Azareus / uTorrent, uHARC compressed games, jailbreaking iPhones, writing my own hooks for d3dx9.dll for cheating on games.. good times. Specifically with Azareus vs. uTorrent I remember being amazed how a program that was a few hundred kilobytes could principally do the same thing as one that was a few hundred megabytes big, and with 1/10th of the RAM consumption to boot. It’s given me a lifelong impression of Java being a sluggish crappy language, which isn’t factually correct.. but first impressions last. Strangely enough I have a feeling we (‘90s kids) were the last generation where every kid had to learn at least some digital nimbleness. These days even the cracks and jailbreaks are one-click and work without a fault.
- tyre 4y ago
  starting digital life on Parental Control AOL with only keywords true hardmode
  - brewtide 4y ago
    So many blank discs to tape over and save things on in the mailbox. Then the unlimited supply of coasters following. I knew a guy that had a free trial of AOL for 5 plus years because he's call and threaten to cancel his service - which eventually turned into "listen, Ive been with you folks for 3 plus years now, and I'd really hate to cancel my service now but..." Bam, another free 6 month window. I still find it hilarious. Who else rocked qlink ? We're getting there now...
- monetus 4y ago
  The cracks back then were packaged into almost a single click too, along with some great music. The site seems to be gone now, but keygenmusic.net had been a great archive. https://archive.is/MeJP5 https://archive.is/MeJP5
  - boomboomsubban 4y ago
    The music was always too loud to appreciate. Nothing caused me to throw my headphones off more.
    - monetus 4y ago
      You've made me remember doing the same, thanks. Damn were those brutally abrupt.
  - Scoundreller 4y ago
    Gamecopyworld is still a thing and still the same great interface and ad riddled mess.
- StrangeATractor 4y ago
  Hamachi, now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. I'm going to guess you're in your early- to mid-30's.
  - howenterprisey 4y ago
    It stuck around for a good long while, fortunately; I recall using it to run a Minecraft server for my friends as late as 2012 or so.
    - grumblehound 4y ago
      I still use it!
- thfuran 4y ago
  I think azureus is a few years too new, but the earliest versions of java didn't include a jit and were only interpreted, so it really was rather slow.
BeFlatXIII 4y ago
…and then it reappears the next week? Yes.
uchhs 4y ago
Where I live moms have husbands, not boyfriends.
- CleaveIt2Beaver 4y ago
  I don't know if you realize this, but moms are actually people, and can exist in all sorts of situations. Go figure.

Anyone else remember having their mom's boyfriend getting you to remove the animated porn lady walking on top of the windows bar while explaining that he had no idea how that got there?

jorvi 4y ago

VirtuaGirl. I made a good chunk of money in my small town being the computer repair guy (well, kid). Just you referring to that blight brought up memories of my entire digital youth. Having my parents shepherd my and my PC to friends so we could LAN, Hamachi (virtual LAN), Kazaa, Limewire / Frostwire, Azareus / uTorrent, uHARC compressed games, jailbreaking iPhones, writing my own hooks for d3dx9.dll for cheating on games.. good times. Specifically with Azareus vs. uTorrent I remember being amazed how a program that was a few hundred kilobytes could principally do the same thing as one that was a few hundred megabytes big, and with 1/10th of the RAM consumption to boot. It’s given me a lifelong impression of Java being a sluggish crappy language, which isn’t factually correct.. but first impressions last. Strangely enough I have a feeling we (‘90s kids) were the last generation where every kid had to learn at least some digital nimbleness. These days even the cracks and jailbreaks are one-click and work without a fault.

tyre 4y ago
starting digital life on Parental Control AOL with only keywords true hardmode
- brewtide 4y ago
  So many blank discs to tape over and save things on in the mailbox. Then the unlimited supply of coasters following. I knew a guy that had a free trial of AOL for 5 plus years because he's call and threaten to cancel his service - which eventually turned into "listen, Ive been with you folks for 3 plus years now, and I'd really hate to cancel my service now but..." Bam, another free 6 month window. I still find it hilarious. Who else rocked qlink ? We're getting there now...
monetus 4y ago
The cracks back then were packaged into almost a single click too, along with some great music. The site seems to be gone now, but keygenmusic.net had been a great archive. https://archive.is/MeJP5 https://archive.is/MeJP5
- boomboomsubban 4y ago
  The music was always too loud to appreciate. Nothing caused me to throw my headphones off more.
  - monetus 4y ago
    You've made me remember doing the same, thanks. Damn were those brutally abrupt.
- Scoundreller 4y ago
  Gamecopyworld is still a thing and still the same great interface and ad riddled mess.
StrangeATractor 4y ago
Hamachi, now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. I'm going to guess you're in your early- to mid-30's.
- howenterprisey 4y ago
  It stuck around for a good long while, fortunately; I recall using it to run a Minecraft server for my friends as late as 2012 or so.
  - grumblehound 4y ago
    I still use it!
thfuran 4y ago
I think azureus is a few years too new, but the earliest versions of java didn't include a jit and were only interpreted, so it really was rather slow.

BeFlatXIII 4y ago

…and then it reappears the next week? Yes.

uchhs 4y ago

Where I live moms have husbands, not boyfriends.

CleaveIt2Beaver 4y ago
I don't know if you realize this, but moms are actually people, and can exist in all sorts of situations. Go figure.