90's
5mon 9d ago by lemmy.world/u/lawrence in comicstrips
I miss that,
These days they just shoot you on the spot
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.
He threatened me with his crt
"he raised his hands, presumably to grab a gun from the ceiling, i had no choice but to fire five warning shots in his head and emptying the rest of the clip in his dog that was tied outside in the yard"
“Fucking bitch”
It's why I switched to LSD.
LCD?
I always forget 😶🌫️
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.
Username almost checks out
I'm a big bearded Scandinavian (born in Denmark and lived here all my life) with far left political views and a love for tie dye, so I'd say it fits quite well 😁
I'm even growing out my beard to go for a viking braid like this 😁
I just meant you paid for the cars, rather than just take them, because you can. As a Viking.
Lol I'm dumb don't worry.
Sweet beard though. I gave one of my employees an award at my Christmas party for having the best beard. The only beard actually.
I gave one of my employees an award at my Christmas party for having the best beard. The only beard actually.
Nice! Was she pleased?
After she calmed down she accepted...
Her husband didn't enjoy being outed, but it was worth it
Goddamn....I wish my beard came in that magnificently.... seriously didn't have "emasculated by the picture of a glorious beard" on my 2026 bingo card....
I hope your beard goals come true, don't let beard dreams stay dreams my friend!
i so would. downloading new car, while the uploader keeps theirs? that's a fucking no-brainer.
We would certainly be buying cheaper cars if the car industry wasn't helping keep the cars away from the same place they get their car parts.
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 👌👌👌
Then they discovered it was much easier to do that in people's phones and that they got way more information from it they could sell.
go into powershell and type sudo [song name]. sudo is the music player
Does sudo run things as administrator now on Windows?
Yes. They added it a few months ago i believe.
Su su sudo
Finally makes sense!
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.
Oh, that one was good. 😙
"Malware distributor too, eh?"
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.)
At what point did they shoot the dog?
Kristi Noem wasn't working with the government back then.
ACAB. They'll all kill your dog, She just somehow took pride(?) in doing so.
Noem is unique in that she killed her own dog instead of someone else's, and then bragged that it spoke to her leadership skills.
And spent 10,000% more on salaries for all of those people than was "lost" by the music industry.
JUSTICE HAS NO PRICE!!!!!
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.
😨
I'm sorry! I'm sorry!! I didn't know!!! 😭😭
i just realised how communist crypto farms are. youre telling me hundred PCs share their resources to reach a greater goal?
Actually, they're all working for the profit of someone else who had the capital to afford the tools they need and extracts labour from them without giving them anything beyond the most basic necessities.
That's capitalism.
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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.
now this happens when you post wild shit on social
Quote charlie kirk being racist and they will come take you away
Du bist so 1 Pimmel.
Got'em. Wie peinlich.
* Grot'em mit grünen Grüßen aus Hamburg als übertriebene Reaktion. Leider außer dem Streisand-Effekt kein weiterer Gegenwind.
YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A CAR NOW WOULD YOU??
That's the spirit!
::: spoiler spoiler Hackers ::: entered the chat
Mess with the best...!
....die like the rest....Cras.... ZeroCool
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I might kill a constable, shit in his hat, and then send that hat to his widow, though.
As long as you don't buy illegal video copies, you and I are golden 👍
These days, making a U-turn could be your last.
Don't exaggera...
Never mind. My bad.
Heil Trumpler! 🫶🙏✝️🫣
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)
Don't download this song.
Even Lars Ulrich knows it's wrong...
"NAPSTER BAD!"
FIRE BUUUUUURN
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"
And the file ends up being 5mins of toilet sounds... and 17 viruses.
Gotta love the frosted tips detail.
I liked the can of Surge
They always protect the owner class, never the people.
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.
What gave you the feeling you were about to be raided? Did you receive threats? Was law enforcement stalking you?
I worked at an electronics store at the time and a cop came in asking me some very specific questions about pirating. like a dumbass, I shared my knowledge. Though at the time I didn't know he was LE.
one of my coworkers called me and told me a cop was around asking for me at work on my day off. soon after that my internet connection died.
I got spooked and dbanned my drives while I took my backups to another friends house.
the guy was probably just trying to learn about piracy tbh. never saw him again after that.
Smart move tbh
'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.
Ah, now they bust down your door in full paramilitary tactical gear after rolling up in an MRAP and APC, then just shoot you for “resisting.”
90’s were the good old days.
Remember the ‘80s, where a lot of the action films were heroes wiping out boardrooms full of evil dystopian executives…? Yeah. Funny we don’t see much of that anymore.
Ah, now they bust down your door in full paramilitary tactical gear after rolling up in an MRAP and APC, then just shoot you for “resisting.”
And then it turns out they weren't even supposed to be at your house, they were targeting your neighbor
Growing up for the final 6 months of the 90s, you mean? Napster launched June 1, 1999...
Thank you for bringing logic here. I remember Napster and Kazaa and LimeWire being a problem in the early 2000s.
Once in a while maybe you will feel the urge
To break international copyright law
By downloading MP3's from file sharing sites
Like Morpheus or Grokster or LimeWire or KaZaA
Yes I nearly got stung once circa 2002, I downloaded some pirated movie off of one of those platforms and shortly after received something in the mail specifically telling me what I downloaded and that I was required to respond to them and they were going to litigate. I did not respond. And the problem seemed to disappear. Thankfully I did not end up being one of those people in the news who was taken to court for millions of dollars.
Should have become an AI CEO.
The only time I even got a notice from my ISP about pirating shit is if I downloaded anything made by Disney or Nintendo.
Unrealistic no grenades and they didn't enter shooting.
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.
The hair is spot on.
South Park did it
If we had social media back then, we'd have people posting "If you don't want to get jailed, then just don't pirate music, FAFO".
you wouldn't steal the hat of a police officer…
Yeah.... Good old days!
I do understand it's a meme, but I really wonder if the folks commenting understand the difference between civil and federal litigation and how folks were caught..
You laugh now but my family was sued by limewire for file sharing. My parents paid like 3500 bucks to settle. Which in 1999 times was pretty much a million bucks
$6,809.29 in Nov. 2025 equals $3,500 of buying power in 1999 (Average).
not accounting for COL and inflation, that's about a million dollars.
I should check in on Dave Kellett
Pretty sure the stormtroopers were murdering 500,000 iraqi kids too... But I guess that's not a popular tale in the imperial core.