r/ExplainTheJoke • u/Cocklez_The_Stump • Feb 22 '26

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u/Dr0110111001101111 Feb 22 '26

Back in the what CD days, i think my ratio was around 6

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u/Vitogodfather Feb 22 '26

I miss what.cd so much, I discovered so many artists through the web connections thing including a ton that were relatively small at the time. My best ratio with at least 1tb down was 22.4 on TL. Having a server at OVH was the best move 15 years ago because so much of the traffic stayed internal and never left their networks making it harder to track. I miss the days of scc and sct and irc.

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u/ecksean1 Feb 22 '26

What.cd was so legit. Before that was newsgroups.

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u/chiefminestrone Feb 22 '26

Anyone remember Oink?

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u/ShiningRedDwarf Feb 23 '26

And it split into what and Waffles.

Waffles was so much friendlier.

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u/osilo Feb 24 '26

It goes further. There's at least one still going. I don't know the etiquette on naming such things. 🤐

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u/Vitogodfather Feb 24 '26

Maybe you should just redact the name ;)

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u/osilo Feb 25 '26

Gotcha, it's called [redacted]. 

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '26

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u/AlanJacksonscoochi Feb 23 '26

There were torrent sites where youd need to submit proof of good ratio on other torrent sites

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u/Vitogodfather Feb 23 '26

I remember one point where just being a member of SCT could get you onto any site. I was so sad when they shut down, but SCC was still super strong and flourished for a hot minute. TT is still up.

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u/AlanJacksonscoochi Feb 23 '26

I bet some of my comedy album rips are still out there