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Old timers know (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 43 points 5 months ago (2 children)

FileZilla isn't even that old school, cuteftp was the OG one afaik.

[–] ashitaka@lemmy.world 28 points 5 months ago (3 children)

No way, WS_FTP was more OG.

[–] HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Oh god, I know all of these.

Also fuck Tim Kosse. Bundled Filezilla with malware and fucked up my machine in 2014. Had to reinstall Windows. I'll never use it again.

I use WinSCP on Windows and Forklift on MacOS.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah you're totally right, I forgot about that.

There was flashfxp too but I think that was a fair bit later. Revolutionized being a warez courier.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I’m not FBI

being a warez courier.

Spill. You bring those R5s across the ocean? Send audio from the handicap audio jack at the multiplex? Hustle up some telecines? Sneak Battletoads outta the backroom at GameStop before it hit shelves?

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Back in the day (mid/late 90's), there were private ftp servers that required a ratio. Some of these were run by release groups and hard to get on, some were more public. Couriers would download from one site and upload to another to build their ratio and get access to the good sites.

Before people figured out you could connect two ftp servers together directly, you would have to download to your computer and reupload. Most people were on dialup, so that was a non trivial time commitment.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ohhh didn’t know about that sense of the word in that context. Interesting!

Do you have any idea what the warez scene is like today?

Also there was a bot on the former Warez-BB dot org that would post scene releases seemingly moments after they pre’d. Imagine those kinds of people are on Telegram or something today…

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nope, no idea what it's like today.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

The joys of having $xx/mo to reward creators. (Maybe only $.xx goes to the actual creators but still, it feels better!)

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I remember WS_FTP LE leaving log files everywhere. What a pain to clean up.

[–] arandomthought@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I used to use filezilla and I'm not that old... Right? ...Right?

[–] anonymoose@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

Sure, grandpa/grandma, time for your medicine.