What is zeropaid?

[Dark Messenger]

This question was originally asked on another site and got some very interesting answers so I thought I'd ask it here as well. Do you remember why you started posting here?
I sure do. It was around 2002 and I was seeking refuge from the newly closed Kazaa forums. This place had been linked to by few people there citing posts made by Niklas Zennstrom and the other kazaa founder Edwin(?) Metselaar(?).
At the time zeropaid was so different from what it is now running the fledgling vbulletin software I assume. The only thing I noted different about this board and the kazaa forums was that this one let you have cool images in your threads with graphical representations of your online self (avatars) whereas the phorum software kazaa was using at the time (version 3.13) could not.

Zeropaid was relatively foreign and surreal to me then and has maintained some magic and mystery still being a place I can't quite explain so how did you get "here" as if here was some tangible place?

[Mels_Smileys45]

I first signed up in 2002. I have no idea why.

[tackdaddy]

i just came across it when i was looking for info on filesharing after i got my first cd burner. i lurked for awhile and then started posting.

[Krell]

Winmx changed version numbers, and the old servers wouldnt connect.

I searched for info and found this place, and Caitlyn Marble, and stayed.


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[Mels_Smileys45]

Winmx changed version numbers, and the old servers wouldnt connect.

I searched for info and found this place, and Caitlyn Marble, and stayed.


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Hmmmm, now that I think about it, I believe there was a zeropiad chatroom on winmx. I can't remember if thats how I heard of it or not.

[northwest stew]

I found this place while reading THE HUB magazine.

[origin]

dont remember how i found it meh 3 years ago now but it is a very enjoyable place to come and chat it up wether it is about politics or a hot new console game.

l8

[Mels_Smileys45]

Just got into BT back in 2004 and Googled for some help in downloading and ZP popped up and I have never left.


BT? Butt Tonguing? Sounds like nasty stuff but I'm glad you found help downloading that :icon_puke

[sister_sue48]

I was told about it by my husband who is into filesharing. My first day here I was hooked. The chat here is wonderful and the information i get:icon_thum

[DigitalJunkie]

I think I was searching for free stuffs on the net & the name ZeroPaid caught my eyes.

[bobhss]

As I remember it, my cable modem was hooked up and Morpheus had just left fasttrack. I needed something else to download with, found ZP and found all the programs and reviews and information I could want.

(but I'm getting old, so that may not be the way it happened. It could have been and interesting tale involving Superwoman and Batgirl, a car battery and some chocolate syrup, but like I said, I'm getting old and the memory is fading.)

[riderx]

This question was originally asked on another site and got some very interesting answers so I thought I'd ask it here as well. Do you remember why you started posting here?
I sure do. It was around 2002 and I was seeking refuge from the newly closed Kazaa forums. This place had been linked to by few people there citing posts made by Niklas Zennstrom and the other kazaa founder Edwin(?) Metselaar(?).
At the time zeropaid was so different from what it is now running the fledgling vbulletin software I assume. The only thing I noted different about this board and the kazaa forums was that this one let you have cool images in your threads with graphical representations of your online self (avatars) whereas the phorum software kazaa was using at the time (version 3.13) could not.

Zeropaid was relatively foreign and surreal to me then and has maintained some magic and mystery still being a place I can't quite explain so how did you get "here" as if here was some tangible place?

i remember right after kazaa forums shut down, those basterds.
well i had been using our beloved audiogalaxy *yes with the spyware i didnt care* as well, using winmx, scour exchange etc and came to zeropaid.

i remember some people from the days of napster as well showing up here so long ago.

how i got here was weird.
i remember going to a different site as well slyway or something if i could remember, back then their was some portals, i remember.

it happened because i read something on cnet i believe about zp was hosting fake porn and they had that thingie wat the hell did they call it, hmm let me remember, it was hmm, woe, it was called wall of shame, that is how i ended up here too.
hmm

hmm on a side note type deal slyway was white and blue i think
it was so long ago there was another site too that i remember but it was definitely the
wall of shame that brought me here, and i been torturing you ever since lol

[riderx]

Sounds like someone needs to go nighty-night. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn! Sleep tight Mel.
If it was anything sexual it would be BOOB Tonguing. Droooooooooooooooool!
hmm smokin eh

[Mels_Smileys45]

Sounds like someone needs to go nighty-night. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn! Sleep tight Mel.
If it was anything sexual it would be BOOB Tonguing. Droooooooooooooooool!


Ha! You were so right! Just caught about 4 hours sleep and that sobered me up real good! I think I went on a nonsense posting spree! More to come later - - - :hi

[Signa]

the first version of iMesh lite that i used had this as its home page. i read a few articles and got pretty hooked. the internal browser on iMesh woudlnt all me to space down with enter

like this.

for some reason i thought it was just a lack of another button, like a ctrl-enter combo to make the line break as you do in MS messenger

[wingnut2600]

I was searching for new p2p following Napster and Audiogalaxy going down... and ZP had an up-to-date p2p directory. I was hooked to trying new clients and the most recent versions. ZP was the fix I needed. After a while I clicked on the forums and was engaged by the posting members of the time. Still here...

[Crazy Horse]

I honestly can't remember... I know it was way way way back in the Scour-Napster (when they were new!) days and I was looking for other p2p programs. I did a search and ZP was the 1st one to show up . I checked it out and have been here ever since.

[.:sp00ky:.]

I joined just so i could vote on cj's poles.

:P

[Excrement_Cranium]

When napster went down, and music city shut down their open nap servers to start morpheus. Searched about file sharing and ended up here.

Kept coming back every now and then, reading the forums and getting peoples opinions on the different programs out.

Joined this year for the sole purpose of pissing on a prog that ticked me off (morpheus). But, I never followed up on it. Just been spamming the place ever since.

Anyone want a free Eye-Pud?

[riderx]

I honestly can't remember... I know it was way way way back in the Scour-Napster (when they were new!) days and I was looking for other p2p programs. I did a search and ZP was the 1st one to show up . I checked it out and have been here ever since.

we came for the same reasons
my cyberlover extradordinare ;)

[Pyromaniaque]

I actually found this place when searching the net for private trackers. This site seems great and the community seems close knit.

[Jared Moya]

I was drinking tequila, passed out, and woke up wearing a ZP beanie :)

[rainbowdemon]

I was drinking tequila, passed out, and woke up wearing a ZP beanie :)


Backwards. With your pants around your ankles too!!








But seriously, Slyck was the first forum I ever belonged to. Never posted much, but found a link to ZP there. I thought ZP was a much better site, Been here ever since. With a break or two.

[ROMANTICGUY50]

I started here in April 2003. Found the site listed elsewhere. When I got remarried after my second wife passed away. My wife Debbie saw me posting here alot, she started asking questions and got hooked on it.--I am still hooked on it. Love Yah All Peace:icon_thum

[Boomer The Dog]

I was on with the original Gnutella program and Limewire, and was searching for info on how to use them better, looking for the address for a 'supernode' or something like that. It was something where you needed to put in an address to get on the network, and you needed to find it on the web.

I read a lot, and then a few years later joined up, which was no problem because I already knew everyone here from visiting all of the time.

Does anyone remember Audiofind and Gnuttmutt, which was web based P-to-P back then? I used to love the posts on them from 'Usenet-Replayer', they were so extremely fast at the time.

[evilmegaman]

weren't they essentially Audiogalaxy clones? I miss those days...



There's always soulseek if you want to feel nostalgic lol.




I found the reason I joined by the way.. I think this was my first post:


http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=812


I was 11 years old at that time. boy was I a douche.... I miss rickio and ken. where the fuck did they go :(

[Mels_Smileys45]

Its strange what you find when you google your ZP name http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&safe=off&q=Mels_Smileys45++&btnG=Search

And sorta cool that another website liked my review of a tv show enough to post it too.

[barbanza]

I wanted to learn everything about filesharing and I came to zeropaid I don't know how, and I did learn almost everything here, but this site is not what it used to be, well I guess it is not the site, everything changes anyway.

[HelenaP]

... everything changes anyway.

Who moved my cheese??
meh..I can't even find my first post.

[carpefile]

Who moved my cheese??
meh..I can't even find my first post.
http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/showpost.php?p=495513&postcount=670
:icon_thum

[Mels_Smileys45]

Who moved my cheese??




Did you have to read that book too? Yuck!

[HelenaP]

Did you have to read that book too? Yuck!
Yup. Just did a Final report on it too.
Perhaps I should have asked you to go over it, but someone else helped me out! :icon_thum
I know how busy you are with your pink tacos and chili dogs...:icon_salu

[mfgbypooter]

did someone say pink tacos?

tasty!

*

[HelenaP]

did someone say pink tacos?

tasty!

*

I knew that would get your attention!
LMAO!
And..I am Helena not "someone"...

[w31n3r]

i preffer red cherries...

i got to ZP googleing something, the name ZERO PAID struck a cord (freeloading jokes aside), and here i am, spamming away to the glory of P2P!

i have to mention, this is the only forum i've ever posted on till date. don't have much of a cyber life. *sniff

[Mels_Smileys45]

...

..... away to the glory of P2P!




Yeah, ZP is a real glory hole.