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I was never on OiNK but I ended up being a moderator on What.CD for half a year or so, made some lovely memories there and it was my first time being exposed to
by neontomo 3y ago
I was never on OiNK but I ended up being a moderator on What.CD for half a year or so, made some lovely memories there and it was my first time being exposed to real nerds building unconventional things. The people I met there are the reason I installed Linux for the first time, learned how to build IRC bots and went on to dive deeper into technology as a passion and hobby. The quality of coders you'd meet there was exhilarating for a 16-17 year old. One guy was building a new BitTorrent tracker, another was exploiting CSS vulnerabilities to see what sites someone had visited and another was building a bot that would download the first 5 seconds of songs on the website and check whether the specified bitrate was correct. It was a formative time that nurtured my interests. RIP.
- unixhero 3y agoWhat.CD was so amazing. I could not believe it was gone. It still sucks.
- scld 3y agooink and what.cd were the best music discovery methods ever devised and that remains true today
- pivic 3y agoI loved them both buy don't forget SoulSeek!
- vsnf 3y agoSoulSeek isn’t really discovery though is it? You more or less have to know what you want before you start
- Larrikin 3y agoSoulSeek allowed you to browse the entire directory being shared, so you only had to search for one thing you wanted and then could look through everything an individual was sharing.
- 15155 3y agoI distinctly recall the what.cd "entrance test" IRC bot.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y agoI was a TM on w.cd and still miss it. I don't know what I'd do if I lost ptp now. Their size is immense. Are there any other repositories of human creation that are larger? It goes to show how terribly we have been robbed by the current copyright system.