Yes for sure! But if you didn’t download executables or other files that could contain code, you were usually ok.
The crazy thing about it is people got digital music from all kinds of sources back then - mix CDs, recordings, etc, and would create the title/artist/album tags by hand, so you’d see all kinds of wrong information.
Like you could probably download “Dancing in the Moonlight - Van Morrison.mp3” on limewire, but really you’d be getting either “Moon Dance” by Van Morrison, “Dancing in the Moonlight” by King Crimson, or rarely, something else entirely.
Tbh, that was part of the appeal. You accidentally download the wrong thing and your computer throws an error message that you never get to read because it shuts down too quick and you know you fucked up. I can’t explain it, but the danger was part of the fun.
Mind you downloading things on limewire could be sketchy too
Yes for sure! But if you didn’t download executables or other files that could contain code, you were usually ok.
The crazy thing about it is people got digital music from all kinds of sources back then - mix CDs, recordings, etc, and would create the title/artist/album tags by hand, so you’d see all kinds of wrong information.
Like you could probably download “Dancing in the Moonlight - Van Morrison.mp3” on limewire, but really you’d be getting either “Moon Dance” by Van Morrison, “Dancing in the Moonlight” by King Crimson, or rarely, something else entirely.
ReallyGoodSong.mp3.exe
I like to call this the wild West of the internet. I miss it.
Tbh, that was part of the appeal. You accidentally download the wrong thing and your computer throws an error message that you never get to read because it shuts down too quick and you know you fucked up. I can’t explain it, but the danger was part of the fun.
Predevloped brain. Like speeding is fun. 👹