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People who pirated in the late 90s and early 00s what is the most dramatic change from then till now? And if you had the power what would you bring back? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] astanix@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

*arrs auto downloading stuff for sure.

[–] dtrain@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What’s funny is that the source those *arrs are downloading from is largely unchanged from the 90’s &aughts by still being newsgroup based

[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Funny thing, I tried using newsgroups for their intended purpose after rediscovering that Thunderbird is also a newsreader. The amount of topics is large (and really old), but the ones I checked out haven't had many updates. Though i admit I haven't been brave enough to dive into the alt. group yet. It reminds me of the internet before the web.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

...thats because newsgroups have been around a lot longer than the web?

[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well, yeah. My first interaction with the internet was a friend's technical savvy dad who had compuserve.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago

Noob

[–] astanix@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I've been using newsgroups since the 90s back when I was also using xdcc on irc. Times were quite different.

[–] aard@kyu.de 8 points 2 months ago

Funny thing is that the only reason I've found *arrs a few years ago was Netflix deciding to be stupid, making me look at how I can manage my local library better nowadays.