The first known things pirated looks to have been software at some point in the 70’s.
Most music and video files were so large that actively sharing them back then wasn’t feasible for most people, though I’m sure many made it work even in those slow times. I remember the days of watching images load in one pixel layer at a time.
Napster was the first real breakout application specifically for getting pirated media, but people were definitely sharing movies, music, and anything else digital over IRC well before Napster popped into existence.
You were also an enjoyer of the clickbaity “money tree” back in the day? Each pixel was a link to something (it was ads, it was entirely ads), but you might could win $10,000 or so it claimed.
Also I was using a 14.4 modem well after 56k and dsl/broadband were introduced and available to everyday consumers. Every webpage took a few minutes to load in for me in those days. It wasn’t until a bit after 2003 that I finally caught up with the times… it’s kind of amazing to think that my ping was manageable in Aliens vs Predator 2, and the first Call of Duty.
The first known things pirated looks to have been software at some point in the 70’s.
Are we gonna split hairs over ARPANET versus the Internet? For what was probably a couple of computer engineering students sharing a copy of Adventure between a couple of university VAX mainframes over an SSH telnet connection…
The first known things pirated looks to have been software at some point in the 70’s.
Most music and video files were so large that actively sharing them back then wasn’t feasible for most people, though I’m sure many made it work even in those slow times. I remember the days of watching images load in one pixel layer at a time.
Napster was the first real breakout application specifically for getting pirated media, but people were definitely sharing movies, music, and anything else digital over IRC well before Napster popped into existence.
Watching “images” load…
I know what kind of man you are
You were also an enjoyer of the clickbaity “money tree” back in the day? Each pixel was a link to something (it was ads, it was entirely ads), but you might could win $10,000 or so it claimed.
Also I was using a 14.4 modem well after 56k and dsl/broadband were introduced and available to everyday consumers. Every webpage took a few minutes to load in for me in those days. It wasn’t until a bit after 2003 that I finally caught up with the times… it’s kind of amazing to think that my ping was manageable in Aliens vs Predator 2, and the first Call of Duty.
Are we gonna split hairs over ARPANET versus the Internet? For what was probably a couple of computer engineering students sharing a copy of Adventure between a couple of university VAX mainframes over an
SSHtelnet connection…😛
RSH, or more likely telnet, not SSH.
ah, you got me there!
fixed