First internets experience?

[Digitalgypsy66]

What was the first album/song you downloaded illegally?

For me, it was Jimmy Page/Black Crowes Live at the Greek Theater via Napster. One. Song. At. A. Time. Every track had a different bitrate and level...so two songs would blare and others would be very low. Good times.

[SoupOrSam]

Lol, I honestly think mine was Depeche Mode - People are people

[mac5155]

Wow, now that's a way back. I can't even think of what it was. Was Napster the first downloader? I remember going from Napster, to Morpheus, to Kazaa, and then Limewire.

[Puffymuffin]

Honestly can't remember what album or song I first downloaded. It was a great time to discover new music though!

[JS©]

Lol, I honestly think mine was Depeche Mode - People are people

I think mine was Enjoy The Silence, and the second was a Rage Against The Machine song. It ended up taking me about a month to get the entire Violator CD. By the time I was finished, I had 4 different remixes of Enjoy The Silence, 3 mixes of World In My Eyes, a few more for Personal Jesus. And like Digitalgypsy said, the volumes and quality were all over the place.

My downloading started by dogpiling for mp3s. I eventually moved on to FTP sites with ratios, where you had to give a song to get a song. There was a website that listed a ton of FTP sites, and I'm drawing a blank on it (audiosurf.com?, audiofind.com?) I can't count how many people I sent Descendents - All to. If I needed to upload a second song, they got "Descendents - All, no All!"





There was also audiogalaxy, which I think might have even been around before Napster.

[SoupOrSam]

Yeah, I'm sure somewhere along the line me and you transferred something to each other. Haha.

[Godric]

The first song I downloaded was Youth of the Nation by P.O.D



I was like 10.

[Pavel Bure]

I think my first was something by Saves The Day. I remember my friends dad would pay me $15 per CD to download him songs and burn stuff for him.

[Godric]

I think my first was something by Saves The Day. I remember my friends dad would pay me $15 per CD to download him songs and burn stuff for him.

so you were actually a pirate

[mac5155]

pretty sure mine might have been something off St Anger by Metallica. lol

[Froggy]

my first memories of napster were downloading every wesley willis song freshman year of college

[pittsports87]

This thread reminds me of this video, rapper DMX googles himself for the first time:

[Malkamaniac]

This thread reminds me of this video, rapper DMX googles himself for the first time:

Lay off the coke.

[JS©]

This thread reminds me of this video, rapper DMX googles himself for the first time:

Spoiler:

and this is being emailed to the rest of IT in about 5 seconds.

[JeffDFD]

Ha, I remember being all "Whoa! I am downloading at close to 10 kb/s off of this guy, lets see what else he has...sooo fast!"

[JS©]

I remember a friend of mine sending me a screenshot from audiogalaxy with a 22kb/s download. I couldn't believe it until he sent me the screen shot.

[Pavel Bure]

I remember when broadband first came in and you could click on a song and bam it would download in like 20 seconds. It was sick.

[pressure=9Pa]

my first memories of napster were downloading every wesley willis song freshman year of college

He couldn't have created that many. I mean, how many superheros could he fight?

[Froggy]

my first memories of napster were downloading every wesley willis song freshman year of college

He couldn't have created that many. I mean, how many superheros could he fight?

You'd be surprised. He was quite prolific. You know rule 34? Well rule 35 is "if it exists, there is a Wesley Willis song of it"

[PensFanInDC]