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🗓️ 16 November 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Vergecast. I'm your friend David Pierce, and you're about to hear another episode of our new show, version history. |
| 0:05.9 | Before we get into it, one reminder, send us all of your feedback about the show, everything you like, everything you don't like, everything we should do differently. And most importantly, go subscribe to version history, wherever you get podcasts, because it will not be on this feed forever. Let's get into it. |
| 0:19.6 | It's the year 2000, |
| 0:20.9 | and I have an app to tell you about it. |
| 0:22.7 | It's this one app that you've downloaded your computer |
| 0:24.5 | and... his feed forever. Let's get into it. It's the year 2000, and I have an app to tell you about it. It's this one app that you've downloaded your computer and you can access every song that has ever been recorded anywhere, all without paying a dime. No, to be clear, I'm not talking about Napster. Napster is in the middle of being sued absolutely out of existence. I'm talking about an app called LimeWire. |
| 0:41.1 | And LimeWire is going to fix what went wrong for Napster. |
| 0:43.6 | From the verge of box media, this is version history, |
| 0:48.6 | a show about the best and worst and strangest and most important products in tech history. And today, we are talking about the very, very end of FileShare. |
| 1:03.4 | Thank you. We are talking about the very, very end of FileShare. It's time for Black Friday at Dell Technologies. |
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| 1:11.7 | E.K. forward slash Black Friday. |
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| 1:16.3 | Save big on PCs like the Dell 16 plus featuring Intel Corps ultra processors. |
| 1:21.0 | Shop now at Dell.combe, forward slash, Black Friday. |
| 1:24.1 | All right. We're back. Let's pirate some stuff. |
| 1:27.3 | Neil have to tell us here. Hello. Hi. Sarah John, also here. Hi. Let's just talk about our own experiences here first. We've all pirated a song or two in our day. Were you where? I feel like there's like there's like the Napster kids. There's the Kazah kids. There's the Limewire kids. And then there's like the kids who don't know. |
| 1:46.1 | Is that like a fair delineation of the generations, would you say? No, the kids who don't know are just the |
| 1:51.7 | Torin kids. Oh, that's fair. Well, there's the Torin kids and then there's like the Spotify kids, |
| 1:55.9 | and they're the kids who don't know. But you're right, the Torent kids belong in there, |
| 1:58.7 | right at the end. Yeah. But they're still around. I wouldn't discount it. I wouldn't call them kids anymore. Yeah. But yeah, like the torrent parents at this point, really. Are Torrent adults like Disney adults? Like you kind of grow up and a lot of people grow out of it, but you didn't and that's nice. Yeah. To be clear, David, I've never pirated anything in my life. Well, sure. But yes, I know |
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