Throughout several months of using Audiogalaxy and WinMX, I have been heartened at the variety of stuff people have downloaded from me. Whenever I launched one of these applications, I have usually been quickly pounced upon not only for the latest Britney single or whatever, but for everything from Orbital to Althea & Donna to Kenickie to Kleenex to Augustus Pablo to Kahimi Karie to Björn Rosenström to Bad Dream Fancy Dress.
When AG dried out, I swiftly fetched SoulSeek, and have now had a few weeks of rather successful searching'n'loading. But in the same period of time,
not one single upload occurred from my hard drive. I've naturally wondered whether my collection was really that uninteresting (but then, apparently only to SoulSeek users); I've also repeatedly checked that the shared directories were correctly set (they were). In short, this has baffled me a bit.
But now, just a few minutes ago, my first upload was completed! Someone had found
just what they had been looking for in
my hard drive! It was... the old Soviet Union national anthem sung by the Red Army Choir!
*Boggle*.
Any other amusing filesharing stories out there?
― OleM, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Yeah, as a matter of fact, I have an interesting anecdote.
This bloke connected to my computer and he, like, uploaded a file.
Like I say, interesting.
― Chris Sallis, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
I have usually been quickly pounced upon not only for the latest
Britney single or whatever
Giving a bit too much away, methinks...
― ciaran, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
You're not from around these parts are you boy?
Hey - We don't take kindly to rockists round these parts
Keep the non-sequiturs coming, folks.
― ciaran, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Like I say, interesting.
Haha, you're right, it did come across as a bit of a non-event,
didn't it? It's just that it had baffled me that the SS upload bit
had been so silent compared to a) the amount and variety of stuff I
find there and b) the activity using other apps.
And for the record, I've never had anything newer than the third to
last Britney single :)
― OleM, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)