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it just occured to me that it might be a good idea to listen to Kanye West's 808 & Heartbreak, just to know how it sounds like. So i downloaded the album from piratebay, it took less then a minute. i've then spent less then a minute listening to it, and about two seconds deleting the files. |
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(the point is, if there is one, that i didn't want to see neither the myspace nor youtube websites, and that intenetz is ) |
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I had the exact same experience with that album. |
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just imagine you could to that with kanye west the person! materialize him in less than a minute, listen to his complaints for less than a minute, and send him to another dimension in about two seconds... |
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haha! would be... an immersive Kanye West experience. |
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I remember distinctly waiting an hour or so to download about 17 seconds of rollercoaster of love video in quicktime. Also Beautiful people. MTV's old website I think. That's when Netscape was the thing to use and hotbot,exite,alta vista, and lycos were col search engines. Internet was awesome then. Still is awesome but we face new problems mainly assholes trying to privatize and regulate it. |
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been thinking... where is this fad of taking pictures with cameras heading... i mean until the 90ies almost every dad was a hobby photographer, and knew how to handle a SLR. Now everyone has at least one mobile device which is capable of taking crappy party shots, documenting every single moment of a life, only to upload tons of them (how much digital data, in electrons, is a gram btw?) to facebook... the author of almost any picture could be anyone else, it wouldn't matter. So maybe... we'll have picture/video devices soon which don't need to be operated manually anymore? like google street, but for everyone.... some microcamera attached to everyone's head,even Kanye West's, steadily connected to everyone elses head, fart. |
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I remember taking an hour to download 'aphextwin-kickass_violin_solo.mp3' on my 56k dial up connection. those were the days. |
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i remember the first mp3 I ever downloaded, it was cichli. the dude who sent it to me on irc said "fuck it, you have enough." after two megs, which took forever because i was on a 14.4 modem. up until that time i've only ever heard low/medium quality wav clips online. i thought it was pure magic that people were now able to send full high quality songs through the internet. |
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I wish I still appreciated having a good internet connection. I have 10MB, but this thread has made me realise that I don't really appreciate it. :( The novelty has sadly worn off... Then again, I have always had a pretty good speed of internet. I feel a bit jaded and spoilt sometimes. This is one of those times. |
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look, it's the future: You play a current generation game that runs on a computer thousands of miles away and get the video realtime-streamed to your PC/Mac in HD. wtf? i don't believe this will be lagfree though... but give it a couple of years more, and your computer is nothing more than a web browser. |
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good, consoles cost vast sums of money and die out before you could buy a decent game actually using the station. bad, nothing beats insulting your buddy in a 1on1 battle, but these days are over for us anyway... the only thing were still playing against each other is free online-games now. its the next logical step in buying information instead of matter. this saves ressources!! |
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i totally understand what you mean. even rare stuff seems available over the net. it took me 15 minutes to find a subbed, good quality version of meatball machine - a japanese gore movie. |
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you can even tell after what google spits out that something is wrong. when you search for a movie or album the first three links usually alread contain a link to a rapidshare file or torrent. a year ago even that was impossible. |
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the internet is designed to absorb your attention to the degree that you will allow yourself to be converted into a battery that powers a reality much more challenging than this one. |
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it's easier to download an album than unwrapping the cd jewel case. couple of weeks ago there was this cd/vinyl fair, it did not have a search function, fail! and just yesterday i borrowed a cd from someone and ripped it to the computer, even that felt awkward.... |
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*drools* |
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hehe, no search function. youre supposed to find them gems in there like the needle in the haystack, but sure is fun! also you never ever make a bargain if the people know what theyre selling... |
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