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Who else was here? God damn does this bring back memories.
by dvektor 3y ago
Who else was here? God damn does this bring back memories.
- blisstonia 3y agoOh yeah!
- fjallstrom 3y agoI was. It was a glorious time.
- geoah 3y agoWas so sad to see oink go. What cd did a good job but nowhere close to oink. I feel there was one more that I’m missing after oink.
- clows 3y agowaffles.fm maybe?
- geoah 3y agoYes!! :D
- clows 3y agoI was barely on OiNK. Got an invite and I think 2 months later it shut down :/ But I used waffles quite a bit. (I didn't like what.cd for some reason)
- homefree 3y agoWaffles moved from fm to ch a while back. It also had a fake forum login in the early days. Not sure when it died though. I remember people trying to get into FTN and others too that were known to be very exclusive - not sure if any of those are still around.
- blisstonia 3y agoWhatCD was pretty damn good, I'd say it rivalled Oink. Remember the bounty on that MSFT forensic tool? The copy of the unreleased JD Salinger novel? Both fulfilled...
- dvektor 3y agoLmao I remember the bounty for COFEE was up so high.. and it was super anti-climactic when it finally showed up. Nobody was impressed
- blisstonia 3y agoHeh I know right? I think it freaked everyone out a little bit. Startled everyone as it had a whiff of LE…
- homefree 3y agoI remember coffee getting fulfilled, but don’t recall the Salinger novel getting fulfilled. What was the story there? Iirc it was in the Princeton rare books library and it was hard to get access to? Guessing someone took photos?
- crtasm 3y agoThey're thinking of the short stories, I guess? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What.CD#Leaks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What.CD#Leaks https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-the-leaked-jd-salinger-stories-reveal-about-the-author https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-the-leaked-jd-salinger-st...
- blisstonia 3y agoHere's the story about the novel: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/nov/28/salinger-unpublished-stories-leaked-online https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/nov/28/salinger-unpub... Directly calls out WhatCD
- homefree 3y ago
- propter_hoc 3y agoWhat.cd was certainly better than oink in terms of the library (largely because it was started by seeders who already had the entire oink library) but was definitely missing the charm.
- Larrikin 3y agoHonest question, what did Oink have that what did not? Oink was first to try, but what was the greatest collection of music in the history of the world with a lasting open source legacy to this day.
- phatskat 3y agoOiNK was amazing, big rip
- washadjeffmad 3y agoYep. Nugz and OiNK were how I got into vinyl ripping and live tape swaps afk. Only one tracker I joined in the early 2000s now yet remains. On an interesting note, I'm still being commissioned for analog capture and restoration projects through connections I made back then.
- bryceneal 3y agoOiNK changed my life. I discovered it in high-school and found so much good music that I never would have experienced otherwise. I still think about it at least a few times a year.