I’m a data hoarder for sure. Have many SCSI Hard Drives in my closet to prove it… I sure miss the olden days when it comes to downloading (and not necessarily pirating). Anyone remember Hotline and/or Carracho? People would set up little servers and take pride in building little communities around specific content. English Dubbed Anime, Web UI resources and files, porn of course, Freeware, foriegn movies, even FONT servers were always fun… It was not just straight forward (you could even chat or email an admin and get a response fairly fast) but it was fun and you could meet like minded people.

I guess I’m just venting because my mom got sick and I haven’t logged into any of my trackers in a year and now I’m back to square one with invites. Uhhhg.

  • closetoballing@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I used to upload Warez in a million files. The community was fun. But I would never want to go back to those days.

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    11 months ago

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  • Kyleb100@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Hotline was great! I dabbled a bit, but stuck to irc mostly. Such simpler times

    • malachi347@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I remember running my own Hotline server - it was one of my favorite memories from back in the day.

  • activoice@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    You could do a trial subscription to Easynews (Usenet provider)

    They have a search feature so you can browse Usenet content on their web interface. It’s the one feature that sets them apart from other providers.

    The issue of course becomes a lot of titles are obfuscated. But you can browse like all posted 1080p video for example and figure out what the video is from the thumbnails. Or if you know how long a video is you can search using the video length for example.

    If the videos are in MP4 containers you can stream them in your browser, no download required.