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The original was posted on /r/piracy by /u/SoftPois0n on 2024-06-11 15:38:39+00:00.

Back when internet speeds were only 3-10 MBPS (for me atleast), I spent countless hours on Internet Explorer, digging through blogs and sites to find t0rrent links for games like GTA Vice City, Max Payne, and Hitman, or movies like Lord of the Rings, Narnia, Jurassic and Star Wars.

Navigating through endless pop-ups and scrolling for the right download link was a real challenge. And after finally downloading, I’d often encounter errors like missing DLL files, wrong format, not good quality, but I kept trying until I got it right.

• Used to leave my PC, running up all time (to finish the downloading / installing), sometimes also waking up in the middle of the night, to double check the progress.

Today’s generation seems to prefer to find stuffs that are easily on the first page otherwise they just give up or consuming short clips of movies and shows on platforms like YouTube & TikToks, often claiming to have seen the entire thing.

They rarely sit through full-length films and are unfamiliar with the patience & struggles required to navigate and download from the perfect site and endless files & software downloads (rar, zip, ISO, exe, MSDos, etc.

The internet was a much wilder place back then, to be honest. (Its very filtered now)