I miss that,
These days they just shoot you on the spot
this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2026
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Swatting became a verb in the 90s.
Swatting wasn't really a thing until the 2000s. The term wasn't even really coined until nearly the end of the 2000s. The FBI was using it in like 2008 or so.
See Wikipedia or this FBI archive article https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/stories/2008/february/swatting020408
There weren’t many ways to make anonymous phone calls in the 90s, you had to find 10¢ and go into town to find a pay phone.
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Don’t forget that he owes his entire life earnings to a corporation for downloading 180 songs.
Most heinous crime. Almost as bad as downloading a car
You wouldn't!!
I did. In fact, I've downloaded more cars for Cyberpunk 2077 and GTA IV than I've been inside of IRL.
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The only time I even got a notice from my ISP about pirating shit is if I downloaded anything made by Disney or Nintendo.
Yooo, can communism get ME that swole too?
Well, you'll certainly get plenty of exercise and won't have to stop yourself from binge eating in the gulag!
Is this real?
Real in the sense that it was made at the height of the napster crisis. It wasn't put out by the RIAA though.
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2pac.mp3.exe
Wait, why does the song not start playing when I double-click it?
You have to run the song as an administrator.
Its soo good its needs full read write acess to your drive.
Its for uh surround sound 👌👌👌
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Nah in the 90s you were always running as administrator unless on a school computer or using Linux or something...
I installed Linux back then too. First thing I did was delete my user, home folder, and just rawdog the whole thing as root.
I may have slightly misunderstood the operating system. Later that week I saw that a new Linux kernel had come out, and did a uname -r and decided that the best thing I could do was manually compile the damn thing for my computer so I could "get the update".
I am pretty sure I managed to even boot all the way to the terminal, but being unable to run startx. Good times.
go into powershell and type sudo [song name]. sudo is the music player
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They started investigating him as soon as he started downloading that MP3. Did some reconnaissance around the house, got some surveillance intel, consulted a judge and a few expert witnesses, then commenced the on-site op and apprehended him when it was about 90% complete. (That's about how long it took to download MP3s in the 90s.)
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Today the corporate AI downloads all of the songs, artwork, movies, text, etc. on the internet and the police will just shoot you in the face for no reason.
Oh and they DDOS your little private webpage too.
I wish death upon Alibaba Group. Half the shitty AI scrapers are theirs.
Still remember downloading nirvana_smells_like_teen_spirit.mp3 for the first time. It may have taken 25 minutes on Napster, but nothing has ever sounded so good played out of my aux speakers in Winamp.
Narrator: "what sounded so good was horse porn"
In the 00's, its the same except he's playing CoD.
Napster actually was mostly in the 00's. Napster came out in the summer of 1999 and the lawsuits over it started in 2000 and it was shut down in 2002.
now this happens when you post wild shit on social
Quote charlie kirk being racist and they will come take you away
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'90s? This came out in June 1st of 99 so I guess for 6 months it was the 90s. Napster was mainly the early 2000s. Before really LimeWire and stuff came around.
YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A CAR NOW WOULD YOU??
I might kill a constable, shit in his hat, and then send that hat to his widow, though.
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Metallica seen by people through the decades :
80s : Oh wow, it's a fun thrash band with a cool bassist
90s : Fuck you, and the horse you rode in on you sellout piece of shit
00s : Fuck you, and the horse you rode in on you sellout piece of shit also you're fucking clowns 🤡🤡🤡🤡
10s : Oh wow, they're still going
20s : Oh wow, they're still going
(NB : My opinion is still the 00s opinion because I'm a millenial)
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They always protect the owner class, never the people.
And the file ends up being 5mins of toilet sounds... and 17 viruses.
Should have become an AI CEO.
The hair is spot on.
it really was like that.
I remember one time I got spooked that I was about to be raided and took all my backups (on DVDs) to a friends house after a loooong and winding path to their house to ensure I wasn't followed.
when I dropped it off all he asked was, "can I copy what you have?"
told him he could copy whatever he wanted if he had the drive space. it was a full binder of 100 data DVDs.
was never raided but I was looking over my shoulder for weeks after that.
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