I discovered file sharing in the early days of Napster. When that went away a lot of people flocked to Limewire, but after trying it for a night or two I said "no way, José" and never opened that crap application again, polluted with spam and fishy files.
Right around this time, Audiogalaxy started growing, and that's the first time I came across a game-changing feature: you could resume a download even after you had been accidentally booted from the dial-up connection! This was astounding to me at the time, like magic to my primitive mind.
Especially if there is some 30 something your old dad next to her wondering the same thing, as well as whether he recognizes her as the chick that he cranked out absolute gallons to as a teenager
Taylor Rain became a realtor. I bet every guy that sees her walk in instantly thinks they’ll get to ass fuck her if they buy a house. It’s probably on her business card.
I remember as a kid i downloaded something weird. It was porn, but possibly child porn so i deleted it, and then panicked like i might get swatted, but i didn't want to reformat my computer so i hid my hard drive waiting for the police to search my house
I remember getting in trouble when I was a kid because I had a friend around, and my dad found www.pokemonpornography.com in the browser history. A part of me was mortified, but another part was "wtf that's all I need to do to find this shit?!"
That sparked the curiosity that led me to study Computer Science and become a Software Engineer.
Between Napster and Limewire I legit screwed up my families second computer. In my defense, they bought it with Windows ME so it wasn't that great to begin with.
I can’t say it was very reliable, but printers haven’t changed on that front. At least it didn’t bitch and moan for internet access so it could constantly nag you with bs about setting up a subscription