Beaver [he/him]@hexbear.nettoAsk Lemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml•What is the age of 'grad and hex' users?English
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1 year agoI’m almost 40, one of the “remembers Reagan” millenials. My political evolution has been “If you’re not a liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart. If you’re not a Marxist-Leninist by the time you’re 35, you have no brain.”.
Napster was a godsend, as I couldn’t afford to buy music. I installed it on the school computers, and I had a sneaky little hidden folder with my mp3s. I’d plug in my headphones and listen over lunchtime. I eventually figured out how to use multipart rar files to put them onto floppy disks, so that I could get them back home and listen on my parent’s computer. I was eventually able to buy a portable CD player that played mp3s on CD-RW, which really opened up the possibilities. Without piracy, I don’t think I would be into music in the same way - I simple never would have had the opportunity to listen to most stuff.