Remember playing that demo over and over as a kid! Really cool that you worked on it.

I remember finding this and being super excited about how awesome it looked and how small the file size was. This was back in the day when LAN parties were common, and not everybody had high speed internet.

I still wonder if things like this have a place in the future?

The demoscene is still going strong and attracts young blood. Check out the Revision events: https://youtu.be/EJ7KAD0NyGw

Thank you, really appreciate you saying something.

Not sure I have ever had anyone comment on my writing style. Probably means I should write more!

That is super interesting, care to share why it was on your list? I mean it was legit after all lol.

Thanks for sharing!

I had high hopes for Revision3, it was really an exciting time with Web 2.0 and the like.

Thank you for the kind words.

Thanks so much for chiming in, glad you liked the lime green!

I definitely remember some RuneScape stuff on there, I played it a lot in the early 2000's myself.

API would be interesting.

Tried the affiliate route for Amazon (Hard Drives ect) and VPN ofers. Never had any luck with those.

My conclusion: if you are on a torrent site, you probably are not looking to buy something.

I buy a decent amount of stuff online. I've even seen ads for something and bought it the first time I saw it.

But I would never, ever, buy anything after clicking an ad on a torrent site, even one I knew to be 100% legal and above board. Hell you'd be hard to get me to even click one of the ads in the first place let alone just open a new tab and search for whatever the product was.

The risks are everything from spam to scam to fraud to full-blown identity theft if you click the wrong ad on the wrong site, and all of that can be obviated by just searching for the thing in a new tab 99% of the time. The juice (getting the site owner a fractional percentage of the sale at best, or a fraction of a penny for a click) ain't worth the squeeze IMO.

Yup, can't blame you there!

Ya, basically no one would touch a torrent site, even if it was legal, with user submitted content.

To downvoter, this is the OP and this is not some hypothetical speculation from a random internet cynic. This is their actual experience with this site. This comment should be highly upvoted, not downed.

I'm not at all suggesting that GP should be downvoted, but just because a person ran a site doesn't mean they thought of and tried all the possibilities for making it work. Do we want to blindly accept all the advice friendster and digg have to give us? Should we accept everything Musk has to say about twitter, or should he simply listen without objection to Jack Dorsey?

Nobody claimed it should be read uncritically.

The considered opinion of the site admin, based on his own experience, is still worthy of note and of upvoting.

I happen to think he's right, but the point would stand even if I didn't.

It is hard to balance money with time these days, especially if you are doing it on the side, or even doing it for an employer.

Back then I was in high school and it was literally spend nothing you don't have to and avoid having to get a job for as long as possible. Good times!