Stealing Music on The Internet

The Collectible Card Game Boom

Sorry for the delay on this one, I've had major allergies and my voice has finally come back.    Grab your sleeves and starter decks, it's time to talk about the great Collectible Card Game Boom of the late 90's and early 2000's. I go on for half an hour about Magic the Gathering, Pokemon, Yugioh, DBZ CCG, The X-Files Card Game, and a few others.

Flash Player

Welcome to the episode about Macromedia/Adobe Flash. Come learn about how the internet worked before streaming.

Stealing Music on The Internet

Learn about the history of Peer to Peer file sharing. Before Spotify there was Napster, KaZaA, Limewire, and BitTorrent. Find out how people in the early 2000's filled their new iPods with sketchy mp3 files downloaded from random computers.    Support the show at Y2K.FM [https://www.y2k.fm/]

College Without A Laptop

A laptop computer is nearly essential for work and school these days. That wasn't the case in 2002. They were expensive, loud, and not widespread in the classroom.    Pull out your Scantrons and dust off your spiral notebooks. In this episode find out what it was like to be in college without a laptop.

When the Internet Was Slow

The internet in the late 90's was vastly different than the internet today. Let's take a look at how we connected before we were always connected. In this episode: chat rooms, instant messages, and download speeds that you had to witness to believe.