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So, let me put on my Internet Old Person hat and tell you kids about the the way we committed music piracy in the long long ago of 2001, and the fragility of those music collections in those days.
You might know Napster. You might know Limewire. But there was a music piracy tool in between those. A little remembered program called AudioGalaxy, and it worked a little like Napster and a little like BitTorrent. The exact details of how it worked are immaterial, but one thing it did was when you searched for an artist, the songs were sorted, in essence, by popularity (e.g. how many people had that specific song file shared.)
Now, I can’t understand why this was a thing, but there was a strange phenomenon in the early days of file sharing and music piracy where people would share songs with the wrong artist name or song title. Certain bands and artists got a lot of stuff attributed to them that they never recorded. “Weird” Al Yankovic may be the most infamous victim of this, with nearly every novelty song and song parody released attributed to him regardless of quality or subject matter.
The confluence of these two phenomena are how I discovered one of my favorite bands of all time.
So, in my late teens, I found a new favorite band. A quickly little one-hit wonder known as DEVO. Y’know, the band that dd “Whip It.” They had the funny red hats that looked like flowerpots. Those guys.
Anyway, I had become obsessed with this band to the point of autistic hyperfixation, and I wanted to hear everything they’d ever put out. At that point, they’d released nine studio albums, a couple live albums, and two collections of early demos, and I wanted them all. So I would find myself crawling in the bottom pages of the AudioGalaxy search results looking for those obscure tracks—b-sides, songs on soundtracks and compilations, the occasional bootleg, They’d pop up between songs that were obviously not by DEVO, and much like our poor friend Alfred Yankovic, any sort of vaguely quirky 80s song got assigned to DEVO.
That was how I found it. A song called, simply, “Detachable Penis.”
Now, I had never heard of such as song, but I knew on the face of it, it wasn’t a DEVO song.
But with a title like that, I knew I had to find out just what in the name of fuck a song called “Detachable Penis” sounded like.
It sounded, dear reader, like this:
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(CWs: blurry images of a dildo, the word penis, spoken word poetry)
And I immediately went to Google, because this song somehow tickled an itch in my brain, and I had to go and find out the real band that recorded this song, because how the hell else was I going to get every song I could of theirs I could get my grubby little hands on. The band was called King Missile, and I was hooked.
I’d like to see any music discovery algorithm beat that.
I eventually acquired their entire major discography along with a few EPs and B-Sides. I eventually burned those to a CD, which I could listen to with my MP3 CD Player.
And I realize, upon writing that, for you youth “MP3 CD Player” is a noun phrase that needs explaining. See, while the iPod had been released at that point, and similar devices were also on the market, they were all prohibitively expensive. The economical way to listen to pirated music files was to burn them to CD, but some CD players had software that allows you to burn those song as as _data_. Suddenly, you could have a single CD with 700 megabytes of MP3 files—room for an artist’s entire discography, if not multiple artists.
Since I was download a whole lot of MP3s with my high speed DSL connection, I was taking up an awful lot of space on my hard drive that needed to be offloaded somehow. CD-Rs and an MP3 CD Player were the optimal solution. And it worked…
…until it didn’t.
In the summer of 2002, my parents took me on a vacation to Las Vegas and Los Angeles. It was in the latter city where someone got into our rental car and swiped my MP3 CD player and a binder of CDs—both pressed CDs I’d acquired and CD-Rs of illicitly acquired MP3s, along them a CD-R I’d burned containing the nearly complete King Missile discography.
Songs I had only on that one CD-R.
It took me a decade—ten fucking years—before I’d recovered all the music that was on that disc.
This is the sort of discovery and the sort of loss that kids will never experience again in this day of Spotify and the all-you-can-eat buffet of music on demand we have now.
#internet old person#music piracy#music discovery#AudioGalaxy#Napster#Limewire#2001#2002#back in the day#2000s nostalgia#long and rambling story#DEVO#king Missile#Youtube
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"okay but even though these characters are thirty they have SUCH old man energy"
"well if they've been endured enough trauma by their 30s it deserves to be called old man yaoi"
"does it count as old man yaoi if one of them is 20"
#spitblaze says things#its rough being the only correct person on the internet#if i have to see one more person call original trilogy era nar/-umitsu 'old man yaoi' because 'they act like old men'#im gonna start throwing shit
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If you could also add your age range in the tags that would be helpful (no other personal info plz). I’m using the results to help bulk up a research page I need for a uni art project (the brief sucks but it must be done)
#I personally do not use yahoo all I really know is that they lost hella money on Tumblr when I was a teenager#old tumblr#tumblr polls#random polls#art process#art project#art student#student in crisis#send help#yahoo#meme#poll time#old internet#retro computing#yahoo entertainment
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sad cat irl
#old internet#personality test#if anyone knows the link or website lmk please#old art#weebcore#webcore#animecore#old anime#illustration#art#sad cat
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I've been making the transition these past few months, but I think I'm gonna just move back to Tumblr. My Twitter's follower-base has reached a point where I can't tweet anything casually opinion-related without it overflowing like a toilet. I post a short thread on my gripes with color design in anime and I'm getting QRT'd with "kill this guy with hammers" reaction gifs. Like, damn, this isn't fun anymore. It's not fun to talk about stuff on Twitter in general anymore. I wanted to post some ship dynamic doodles sometime there, but I know I'm gonna get weirdly aggressive takes and reactions. Monkey's paw curls, but I don't particularly like having that many followers.
#personal#delete later#like i'm generally good at not letting internet stuff get to me#it's dumb and inconsequential and i'm confident in who i am as a colorist#i faced some racist racist racist ass shit last month when some alt right weebs found an old post critting whitewashing#like i've gotten dms from people harrassing me about being taiwanese#but tumblr is so lowkey while twitter will blast qrts in your face going “this guy hates you for your basic ass anime opinion”#and i'm like hm. :/#idk thanks for being chill in general guys. except with the miyazaki post that was a toilet overflow#best thing about tumblr is how easy it is to ignore weirdos or weirdly aggressive people#i'm still gonna post art there but really just art. it's more destructive than constructive to use twitter as a discussion space now
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IT'S OCTOBER!!!!
I have no idea what's happening out there, I'm living in this isolated semi offline bubble to avoid spoilers and it's killing me, but WE'LL BE PLAYING THE NEXT DRAGON AGE *THIS* MONTH. AFTER TEN. WHOLE. YEARS. HOW FUCKING CRAZY IS THAT. IT STILL DOESN'T FEEL REEEAL.
#it has been such a long journey...#I can't believe we're here#I'm sorry I swear I have not abandoned this place 😂#it's just that fandom space and internet in general right now is.. a lot#and there are so many voices and opinions and.... I just want to play this game lol#I'm too old and too tired#it's a miracle we're getting this#maybe I'm just too easily pleased and I have my fair share of criticism but.. I'm just so happy it's real and singleplayer story-focused..#if things like anthem and jedi fallen order didn't happen the way they did we would've gotten a *very* different game#and there are a few other very personal reasons why this game means so much to me..#so yeah.. I'm just happy and excited and nervous and emotional 🥹🥹🥹#ONE MONTH
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Nana and Hachiko playing 😺
#october#cozy#cats#kittens#neko#cats of tumblr#cats of the internet#uploads#my daughters#nana#hachiko#2 months old#personal#mine#otaku
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Um if you write Jason having to get drugs for Catherine I want you dead btw. Not only does it tell me you assume the average drug dealer would give the hard shit to a very small child and then not supervise them at all (classist stereotype that all drug dealers are inherently evil + lazy writing with no grasp on reality) and you genuinely think that Catherine was CONSTANTLY high, as if that's even possible without overdosing far sooner than she did. That's without even getting into the bad mom Catherine propaganda.
#dc#jason todd#Catherine Todd#I don't like talking about personal shit on the Internet#but I'm someone who grew up in a family of addicts and dealers and the attitude so many of these fics have#is so fucked up#like yeah my uncle would give a 15 year old weed but he won't even let them be in the house while he's doing coke#every dealer I've ever met had been THRILLED about my enthusiasm towards school and they always encouraged me#Multiple of them have given me actual job opportunities because they know a lot of people and they help their own#you guys actually just hate poor people and demonize addiction!#it's actually starting to piss me off#you don't have to write Cathy as a perfect example of morality#but if you turn her into a neglectful monster I assume you're either classist or projecting#it actually is possible to write Jason parentifying himself in order to take care of Cathy#without blaming a terminally ill woman who was already dying and likely in immense pain#you guys could be critiquing capitalism and our healthcare system and how it fails the most vulnerable people in our society#but instead you're playing up how gross and evil addicts and dealers and petty crooks are to make Jason's lige sadder???#his life already sucks you don't have to be classist to make it worse I promise
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Ruby Gloom wallpapers - from the official website
#ruby gloom#90s mall goth#2000s goth#mall goth#web finds#old web#old internet#2000s web#wayback machine#wallpapers#homescreen#layout#headers#emo#scene#goth#soft goth#personalization
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Drowned God 1996
#a personal recommendation#the lore behind this game and creator are messed up#but so fascinating#I am on the side of Harry didn’t kill his wife and himself and they were murdered#look up the game / history if you haven’t heard of it#definitely an incredible watch / read#nexpo on YouTube made a good vid about Harry and his wife#y2k#y2k aesthetic#y2k style#y2k nostalgia#y2k icons#2000s web#old web#2000s#early 2000s#2000s internet#1990s nostalgia#90s computers#90s games#point and click
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THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE + Text Posts (Part 3)
#it’s confirmed#i AM the funniest person on the internet#the fall of the Roman Empire#text post#christopher plummer#sophia loren#alec guiness#old hollywood#oldhollywoodedit#classic film#perioddramasource#perioddramaedit#funny#memes#thekenobeeedit#my edit#commodus#marcus aurelius#Lucilla#ancient history#Ancient Rome
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hi here's another emotes set
#this is one of my personal favs ngl#old web trinketbox#old web graphics#old web#old web aesthetic#gif warning#old web gifs#web graphics#old web gif#2000s internet#cute#cutecore#cute pixels#cute graphics#kawaii#kawaiicore#kawaii graphics#animated emoji#emotes#emoticons#old web emotes
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banner-graphic for my website :-D !!!!!! www.bennizone.net
#neocities#web graphics#old web#personal site#personal website#geocities#old internet#(making my site is inspired by the web of my youth!!!!)
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BLINKIE SET #30 . . . RANDOM
#blinkie#blinkies#page decoration#page decor#old web#old internet#more unsorted stuff ^__^#eye strain#ALSO THANK YOU SO SO MUCH TO THE PERSON WHO TIPPED ME ON KOFI!!! BWAAA#flashing lights
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my current blinkie/stamp collection ^_^ b
#personal🍒#glitter graphics#rawring 20s#blog theme#2000s emo#old internet#webcore#blinkies#god i love these smmmmm i wish i could put them on all my socials#should i make a neocities page#just full of these#web design is my passion
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something that bugs me is whenever someone says “can we address the misogyny in this fanbase” is the response of “well you should just create content of female characters yourself” like… no one is saying you have to stop liking or making content of the male characters. I talk about tsk and rui all the time. It’s just something that’s worth being mindful of wrt which characters you care more about and why - and which characters you consume content of and why (bc to an extent there’s the “nobody is gonna pay attention to what i make unless it includes the male faves” factor). If your response to people asking you to examine your unconscious bias is to get super defensive and big mad I think you should examine why that is. Just my opinion.
#mine#to be fair I think the whole been in internet spaces like this for nearing 10 years factor and the#long training to just not take shit personally thing is a reason for me being able to be like why are you acting like this#but also I think it’s a worthwhile thing to learn. so you don’t look back at your posts in 10 years and cringe#<- said by someone who has to see 10 yr old posts by myself and goes oouughhhh shut uppp
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