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Comment by marcodiego | Hacker News Reader

How I downloaded my first mp3:

  Went to altavista.com.
  Typed Dire_Straits_-_Sultans_of_Swing.mp3.
  Clicked the first link.

That’s still possible nowadays with yandex.com (perhaps not the first link, but definitely the first page)

FTPs with strict Up/Down quota.

IRC with DCC.

Me too forgot about that. I think it was a few years after 1996 when audiogalaxy arrived.

For me it was @ mentioning someone in an IRC chat and some bot started sending me "Sad but True" or some such angst.