#13: LimeWire, the Wild West of the Internet
Stop what you’re doing. We have an important two-syllable word for you: LimeWire. If you know, you know. LimeWire was the one and only place to find all the music your heart desired for the low price of free ninety-nine. For those too young to remember, LimeWire started off as a peer-to-peer file-sharing platform where you could download pirated music.
The risk of downloading a virus to the family computer was absolutely worth it. How else were you supposed to get Chingy’s hit single “Right Thurr” downloaded onto your iPod mini? LimeWire is a perfect example of internet evolution. It was an incredible tool that the powers that be couldn’t control for a few years, and it was amazing. In case you’re wondering, yes, it was illegal. For plausible deniability purposes, no, of course none of us used LimeWire… We bought it off the iTunes store instead, duh.