The World of Sketchy 2000s Downloads
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- Опубликовано: 27 май 2024
- Desktop buddies, custom cursors, freeware, and toolbars- now mostly forgotten, but once making up the genre of pointless and sketchy recreational downloads.
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FAQ:
Q: What sound effects do you use?
A: Mostly bits from Animal Crossing GC & NH, and Sims 3
Q: What background music do you use?
A: A lot of stuff from the Sims Bustin' Out, Sims 2, and Urbz GBA OST. Also mixed with Club Penguin, more Animal Crossing, and various DS game OSTs
Q: What editing software do you use?
A: Davinci Resolve Studio
Q: Who is that kid in all your thumbnails/why do you use him?
A: Brent Rambo, a kid from a silly meme for my silly channel :3
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0:00 Intro
2:25 Desktop Toys
3:38 Music Downloads
5:28 Desktop Buddies & Screenmates
6:59 Toolbars
10:43 Custom Cursors
11:42 Smiley Central
15:13 Malware
17:41 Outro
18:36 Patron Shout-Out
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Sorry if I sound a little sick in this video, I'm still recovering from Covid :'(
You’re good
dw about it we just are happy you posted another great video ❤❤
you got covid? oh im sorry :(
Do a mermaid video!
i cant really tell a difference but hey dream jelly!
I managed to install so many “Free Minecraft” applications as a kid that I bricked the entire home computer and we had to get a new one. Best part is, I don’t think my parents ever realized it was me? They just thought it gave up the ghost randomly
somehow the one that i downloaded actually worked, however it was only a cracked version of it aka i didnt have access to every server
Gave up the ghost haha
Are you German? I always thought ppl don't say that in English
Funny that they just got a new one instead of just reinstalling windows? XD A virus doesnt break Hardware... When I installed free Minecraft it only had maleware in it... no Minecraft :(
@@kiradarkangel4563 My parents are very tech illiterate, and I remember you would boot it up and it would just crash and crash, all in the name of Minecraft. Haha, at least years later I did end up getting Minecraft for real on my PC
@@totoramao it's not strictly german, people do say it in english.
I installed all the Smiley Cental/Cursormania stuff and never knew it was malware until _years_ later. It made me sad, like learning an old classmate of mine ended up in prison.
lmaoooo it's so true
I skipped a few words while reading that, and thought your classmate ended up in prison for downloading smileys...
@@ShizuruNakatsu One did, but that's not what he downloaded
@@NotOnLandoh damn
@@NotOnLandsame but it was a teacher
"10 year old with free reign on the family computer" is such a mood lmfao
I was always pretty good at recognizing sketchy downloads. I always knew to uncheck “install our toolbar?” when downloading a program. When using Limewire and Kazaa there were different signs that a song was legit such as the size of the file. Whenever I did download a Trojan or something like it I had software like Malware Bytes that would make quick work of removing it. One time though, my mom’s friend and her son came over to stay and I let him use our computer and all of the sudden porn started popping up out of nowhere. And not just any porn, stuff involving women and horses. I wasn’t able fix that myself.
That story took such a crazy turn. What happened after the horse stuff appeared? Did you get in trouble, or were you able to explain what happened? 😂😂
well that escalated quickly-
HORSE PORN????? WHAT THE HELL
@@IAmATwistedCyclePath That was surprisingly common in the 2000's, they where even top results for porn sites
@jesusramirezromo2037 it still is. And somewhat dogs.
dude the editing in this video is crazy, i can't imagine how long it took to make all those silly email edits or you adding toolbars to your arsenal. so well done!!!
Yeah it was very good!
I came here to say this, it is really good!!
yes very well done :)
i knooow right
omg chocomimi icon???
I still have extreme fear and anxiety when it comes to viruses. The thought of not having control over something you put so much into or losing everything on it makes me never want to touch technology
I always try to back my stuff up every few months or so. Nothing special, just copying my files to a USB. I also got the same intense fear after getting a virus once as a kid.
ME TO!! whenever i download something new i always get so scared and end up uninstalling it 1 minute after its done downloading LOL
If your anxious about viruses, just switch to Linux or even FreeBSD if ur THAT anxious
@@MaoTao but like, me being so tech illiterate is part of the anxiety. I don’t know how to deal with a virus, so installing a whole new OS is literally rocket science to me
@@raibaby272 A USB flashdrive, some free software, and a YT tutorial is all you need
The email saying "omg did you hear Michael Jackson died" hit a core memory for me, truly 8 year old me was shook and emailed everyone that week about it
yeah, i can't believe it's been so long now since he died, PS3 was a big thing back then and my buddies were the ones who told me about Michael Jackson's death on PSN, at first i didn't believe them 😅
I remember I fell asleep at home on my lunch break at work that day and everyone thought I was on drugs
I was, but that's besides the point
My friend at the time started bawling next to me in the middle of PE about it, that was his idol. I couldn't sympathize at all cause i was not really aware of him, so i was just very awkwardly trying to make him feel better 😭 must have been 3rd grade
I felt so stupid for downloading Bonzi Buddy. It’s healing to learn decades later I wasn’t alone.
Seeing those pre-emoji era smileys is like peeking into some kind of alternate reality
y'know, one of these days emojis are gonna be a relic that look weird in retrospect. I wonder what the next thing is gonna be
Yeah... Hmm 🤔
Probably won't be anytime soon that emojis get replaced, though 😁
those are the only emojis I know of. The emojis now are all rip offs of facebook and mobile. Emojis made to mock others and be sarcastic reactions.
@@peacefusion Well, that opinion is from a different view... which is interesting & has truth to it, Im sure but I wouldn't say the emojis now are _made_ to mock others and to be sarcastic, that's just the way people use them. I guess they do make them in the way that people want them to be made, because then people will like using them.
Eh, what do I know, huh?
@@eglol what does anyone know, really
The anime-like desktop buddies made me smile. I remember they briefly got really big in the late 2000s when there was this particular type of buddy that was designed so that you could easily override the images. Essentially there were giant collections of skins online so your favorite anime character could sit on your desktop with you. I remember even drawing a few of my own back in the day. I had to look it up again but i think they were called "shimeji"
They were better than useless: intentionally annoying. They were programmed to walk around your screen, pick up the windows you're using and throw them across the screen. And better yet, they could multiply! They literally had this mitosis animation where they would really random split into two. So there longer you had it open, the quicker it would eat up all your RAM until you're struggling to get your computer to access task manager at all to kill all the shimeji.
The internet back then was wild, I kinda wish the kids of today understood the desire to not just optimize your devices for performance, but to intentionally degrade them for laughs
Oh my god .. ........ I used to have like 10 of those set to automatically launch when I turned on my computer...... Lord Jesus
I think I still have some folders of those. Downloaded from pre-Eclipse DeviantArt.
The National Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Computers wouldn't allow me to do something like that.
I still use Mushroom Shimeji lol
Yes! They're named after a mushroom. Most now have the annoyance removed or as a setting, along with /kill all. I remember making them to teach myself animation in GIMP 😅
When I was a kid I downloaded a game that had a virus in it that would mess up my computer's display. My solution? Every time I wanted to play it I would make a System Restore point, because apparently playing it was SO FUN it was totally worth going through the trouble of fixing it every time.
Did we all have Windows completely mastered by 9 years old wtf hahaha
I adored and still love the desktop pets, something about having a cute little critter go about it's business while I browse just gives me joy. This even popped into my recommendeds right after I installed one of those phone pet apps, currently watching this with a tiny shadow the hedgehog flying around my screen lol
theyre called shimejis :-)
Cursor Mania takes me back. I hope my parents eventually forgave me for willingly installing viruses all the time
story time: when i was first introduced to emulation, i went on a shady ROM website on the 5000th page of google and it gave me Smitfraud which made my computer play terrifying online radio shows in the background and made popup ads spam the pc and it traumatized me for life to the point where i was genuinely afraid of getting malware again
Smitfraud....thats a name I haven't heard in a long time. When I was studying at uni I used to fix PCs to make a bit of extra money, a lot of which was virus/malware removal, and I remember how much of a PITA Smitfraud was to remove, in the end the customer agreed to just let me do a reinstall.
omg i had this happen to me too but i had no idea that anyone else went through it ! literally thought my laptop was haunted for a few months in 2010 since i would hear podcasts or people talking at night
This is my first time learning about this in over a decade. Are you telling me that my computer wasn't actually possessed all of those years ago when radio stations would just start randomly playing in the background when I had nothing open?
Young people dont understand how expensive digital music used to be. I remember using a youtube ro mp3 converter to get all my music because the alternative was paying anywhere from $0.99-$3.00 for a single song on itunes lol.
CD singles were also ridiculously expensive, at £4 just to get a song you like
i kinda want that though. just for my favorite songs.
I'm glad the internet is mostly safer. But there was a certain charm that we lost along the way
Yup. I totally added the cursor and smiley toolbar to our family computer... We also used Limewire and searched for songs by typing the song's name and "mp3" into Google. Eventually the computer crawled so slowly from all the malware and viruses. What a time to be alive!
2:18 I once downloaded one of those sketchy Club Penguin tools, and I can confirm that it actually worked! It wasn't just a money maker though, but a programe that allowed you to get literally any item in the game (akin to Animal Crossing's NHSE, which you can still use today if you have a modded Switch). Besides getting a bunch of membership-exclusive items, I also got rare items from 2005 and 06 (since I only started playing CP in 2007).
omg same but one random day it stopped working and a week after i literally couldn’t login to club penguin anymore 😭 i was sooo mad
no way 😭😭
same it worked for me but I was the only one who could see the clothing items, it wouldn’t show up on anyone else’s computer so it was kinda pointless
I had one back in around 2008/09 that generated coins really slowly. I was sat in the Box Dimension watching as my coins value slowly ticked up, feeling like a professional hacker
@@imnotshubchildhood high yield savings account and crypto lmfaoo
There is nothing more nostalgic to me than the "You've got mail!" sound
This makes me thankful that I grew up with SOG's Virus Investigations series that made me aware of how bad viruses can get & what to avoid.
Man, I miss when SOG did stuff like that and deep web browsing. Not whatever reaction/news stuff he started doing instead
@@ImaginaryAlchemist He did a deep web vid recently and sometimes covers whatever tech fiasco happened recently if that helps
Club Penguiner here. I can confirm that those silly coin generators actually did work. It was the only time a "free currency generator" ever did anything, and I loved those coins till CP shut down
I once used a similar generator that just gave you every single clothing item, and it worked. Used the account until CP shut down too
I used to hate the toolbars so much. Everytime you'd download something, it seemed like the program installer tried to sneak one in so it was easy to accidentally end up installing one if you didn't happen to notice the little check box to uncheck while clicking through the installer as fast as possible. I did let the IMVU one slide tho cuz I like the convenient button to check my notifications on the site uwu
Can confirm the club penguin ones worked. I was also super scared to do it myself because I thought I would get in huge trouble for doing so, but my best friend in elementary school used it and when I went to her house I would get her to add coins to my account lol. Also, got SO many viruses from downloading sketchy sims 2 mods. Got a lecture from my dad after some not-child-friendly content got saved to my computer as a result of these downloads, and he ended up having to reinstall windows (which resulted in me losing all my CC much to my dismay)
I definitely downloaded some sketchy TS1 CC that ended up breaking our install so badly, it could no longer save any data. We couldn't reinstall it either, since we'd lost Disk 1 somewhere, so I just resigned myself to playing without ever saving since I didn't know how to even begin fixing it. But hey, at least the sconces were cute
my dad was an IT guy, so i was taught to NEVER download random stuff, no matter how appealing they might be. i was also too scared to turn off my 3ds before saving, as i didnt know what was gonna happen
The way I got into listening to actual music was from a video of someone destroying Ms. Birdy from Webkinz in Desktop Destroyer with Killer Queen playing in the background. Because of this I showed the video to my mom and told her that I wanted to get the CD from HMV. Desktop Destroyer inadvertently made me a more media cultured person which is why it holds a special place in my heart
formative youtube experience in my own childhood was someone using desktop destroyer on dr quack playing flo rida - low in the background 🤝
you two should get married. you're made for each other ❤
@@gemwolfz2860 I REMEMBER THIS EXACT VIDEO. oh my god childhood flashback
Toolbars were the coolest things to me back in the day. I distinctly remember, back when laptops were primitive and bulky, my equally tech illiterate grandma and I downloaded so many random toolbars onto Internet Explorer. It got to the point where the toolbars took up nearly half of the window and IE ran so slowly a simple search took a full two to three minutes to load.
Those were good times.
Same with my mom's computer lmaoo
This is making me so nostalgic, especially the Kid Pix name drop!
I used to love downloading shimeji and MMD models off of DeviantArt, pirating games, changing desktop icons to custom ones I found on some shady site, downloading tons of manga and music onto my kindle, learning how to do it all - ahhh good times :,)
I was so obsessed with downloading MMD models despite the fact i couldn’t actually animate anything lol
@@oceanmango it was pretty easy and intuitive to learn, actually~! You should've tried it. You can port in songs, shaders, all different kinds of objects, etc. The way the models are rigged, you can make multiple frames of animation over several seconds without having to do it by hand for every single frame. MMD actually got me into learning about animation, even considered going into the business.
I have been thinking about re-downloading mmd I didn’t know if it was still a thing 😭
@@annamarie5192 DO IT!!!
This doesn’t count as downloading something sketchy, but when I was younger, I downloaded Twitter for the first time and then deleted it for some reason. I kept getting emails from them about famous people (just general popular tweets and news) and I was scared that they thought I was a famous person, and that this was all secret information and i’d get caught for being an imposter
One of my favorite pastimes as a child was downloading PC game free trials. The trials only lasted one hour each so when I found a game I really liked I’d scour the internet for different websites I could download another trial from
I did that too when I was around 5 years old. I remember downloading free trials of games from shows like Wonder Pets, Dora The Explorer, and Blue's Clues. There may have been others, but those are the ones I remember downloading free trial games of.
I did this repeatedly and eventually ended up with 10 copies of the same game
Yessss omg. Big Fish Games was so good for this, but I'm sure it was sketchy as lol, I cluttered my laptop with so many of those virusy ads, fake anti-virus etc.
i feel like i remember having some program i had downloaded specifically for the purpose of downloading these, tho perhaps it was a website cuz my memory is a little fuzzy on that. but this was how i discovered some absolute favorite childhood games like Wedding Dash, Virtual Villagers and Virtual Families, which i would then go on to beg my dad for the full versions of. honestly feels like i should have wound up with malware or something at some point and not sure i didn't, but i don't really remember any big thing that was noticeable as a problem to child me
I used to do this so much with big fish games, I was always so sad when I saw I wasn't able to keep playing not understanding that they were actually just trials
Oh my god that Smiley Central "Helloooooo!, Oh my gosh!" audio gave me flashbacks to my childhood of browsing the faster computers that my cousins had and hearing that intermittently.
I was also in the same boat of "if I download or even look at the bad thing I WILL BE ARRESTED" so I also have limited experience with these things. Maybe the Interactive Buddy thing from Deviantart that had a downloadable option that would sometimes freeze my computer
I remember desktop destroyer! I even remember the Club Penguin videos you're talking about! That kind of thing was hilarious back in the early 2000s.
Also despite the fact this happened in the first 1/3 of my life, I still remember that the silver sword with the yellow hilt was my favorite cursor. I loved that one. You can see it in action in the footage at 11:14!
your editing always looks so cool. i love the different backgrounds you’ve been doing, they really add to that dreamy old internet aesthetic.
the cursor website reminds me of the flashlight/lighter/lightsaber apps i’d download on the ipod touch, truly a time of innovation
i downloaded like 10 flashlight apps at one time cuz i thought my iPod touch 4th gen had a flashlight, but it was just the microphone lolllll
Omg the zippo app
I used the club penguin coin generator as a kid, my dad is in IT and we had great anti-virus software for the 2010’s so I felt no fear with downloading things (although as an adult i know how silly that is). I used that coin generator as a popularity generator💀-I sent coins to all my friends and had every clothing item in the shop 🫡. It kinda ruined the game though as it took away the reason to play mini games, ect. I ended up making another account to use ‘normally’, but I loved my 12 year old club penguin money scheme 💀. I think it was actually not about the viruses, they collected info like usernames and passwords-although not sure how horrible it was long term to possibly have had my child 1 word password compromised 😭.
I had my first own PC around the time I was 10, that was right at the start of the 2010's. Back then viruses and malware were an often talked about topic on TV. I was super into Lego at the time and whenever some website offered instructions to download I was super afraid of the download button and left. Also creating accounts for websites I often visited seemed scary. Honestly that was probably the best decisions I could have made as a kid.
Same. I didn't like anything that asked for email.
The "Oh my god! No way!" smiley hit me like a sleeper agent. Good lord it was everywhere.
I loved the segments with the smiley emails and the toolbar collecting. The scroll noise got me 😂
11:39 Seeing that Domo-kun SHOOK my entire body, I was not prepared for that rush of memories
I remember downloading THE most sketchy shit on the family computer as a kid, like msn animated emojis and custom cursors and then getting mad when my older sister or mum would uninstall or run anti viruses to get rid of them, so I’d just re-download it. My poor family had to put up with me being completely unafraid of viruses, even despite many lectures. I just didn’t give af and wanted cool shit and couldn’t understand why my family didn’t want the cat themed cursor on our computer.
Somehow, I was able to not be enticed by downloads. I think my dad was the first one to tell me not to trust anything too good to be true on the internet. I mainly just stuck with flash games and Newgrounds. I believe we did have brushes with viruses back then, but they were all thankfully minor. My dad made sure to at least back up some of his computer just in case.
I feel like nowadays, viruses are rarer but way more potent. You do not want to get a virus alert these days.
Yea, my grandpa just told me not to download things, so I didn't
My dad taught me not to download random things, and to this day, if I see something a little sketch but LOOKS ok, i scan it, just in case
as a highschool that had personal laptops provided with tuition, lime wire was a whole commodity. Each class you could see fellow student's taste in music and pick up a whole new playlist.
I remember having 12 toolbars, taking up over half the screen but didn't want to get rid of any of them even though I only used 4 at most. It was so bad I had to force myself to stop looking at new ones because I would absolutely add more if I saw an interesting one. Now I'm just a tab horder.
its 2023 and I still can't believe I got duped in to downloading a file from the early 2000s (circa 2005 to 2010s) thinking it was a vintage software I need that still works to this day. My flash drives got infected with a couple of viruses, traced it back to the vintage software I downloaded from a old magnet/ torrent link which has 1 seeder. It still baffles me to this day how tf is that one computer seeding that file this alive and kicking to this day for anyone to be able to download that file.
That being said, seeing those toolbars and various cursors in this video takes me back to the early 2000s, where everything was flashy with tons of spams and ads etc. you're basically playing a internet version of russian roulette. Fun times, glad it's different nowadays. Great video btw, you just earned another subscriber.
if you guys are interested in watching more on this subject, i highly recommend vargskelethor's windows destruction videos
3:00 Funny you mention it, because I actually found out about desktop destroyer through a club penguin video as well, but instead of it being about the iceberg it was titles something like "How to kill penguins in Club Penguin" and it was just some kid smashing up a bunch of penguins with the program while Super Paper Mario music played in the background LOL.
Being born in 99, your 2000s videos are literally my favorite videos on this platform. I love how niche the topics are that you explore, they are all things I can relate to and am interested in ❤
As a millennial, I feel like we joked that toolbar bloat was what happened when your grandparents tried to use the internet. Kinda fascinating hearing about someone younger "collecting" them, lmao! Great vid!
My dad was obsessed wit checking weather, and you guessed it, every computer i let him on had to have WeatherBug on the desktop.
I’ve been watching this channel since 5k and you have never failed to entertain me with your thorough research
The amount of computers I broke from downloading random stuff as a kid that “looked cool” that ended up being viruses is way too many to count 😅😂. A few times my mom and grandparents had to buy a new computer it fried it so bad
This channel is the gift that keeps on giving. Best subscription choice I've ever made.
My parents scared me out of clicking on anything that could potentially have a virus on it, so I never personally had the experience
Same but not because of parents. Instead I watched Virus Investigations.
I'm still so afraid of viruses that I literally have a "pure" computer, that I only ever use for important stuff like my taxes or banking. And I have a seperate one for general use even tho I don't do anything risky on it
When you brought up cursor mania I was suddenly hit with hundreds of nostalgic childhood memories all at once and subsequently took psychic damage, thank you :)
That Smiley Central ad just unlocked some core memories. Wild.
I love all this nostalgia so much, and the editing on these videos is amazing 💜
I used Limewire with a kid, me and my cousins would group around the computer and pick songs to download. It was a whole skill to try and figure out which one would be the actual song in high quality.
I forgot about these. I had to get a file off my dads old laptop a few months back & I forgot about the terror of “anti virus” programmes that freeze up your computer more and more so you’d pay more for the “better” anti virus.
I remember Smiley centre and the “no way”
I love the editing! it still feels like a Dream Jelly video, but more fleshed out!
leaping lemurs
OMGGGG seeing the massive toolbar was so triggering 💀 I remember my brother telling me it was a virus along with everything else I downloaded and I was in DENIAL until I got older
I remember listening to all my songs on a CD player back in the day. I would download songs from the internet, then I would burn them to CDs.
However, since I wanted to listen to the music then and there, I almost always burned only like 1 or 2 songs onto a CD, and that was it. So I had mountains of CDs with just like 1 or 2 songs on them, hahaha.
I remember doing this for a while until my mom wanted some blank CDs, only to find out I wasted all of them haha. She was pissed
If that was me, I would've had like 20-30 songs on a blank CD.
"i have never used ebay in my life. better get the toolbar" my sides hurt
I remember downloading Owl City’s Fireflies from some site but the guilt ate me alive so I deleted it within the day 😭
I was online during peak Limewire days, and besides the weird text to speech ads that tricked you into thinking you'd downloaded an actual song (which I got a lot...) I actually somehow lucked out and didn't download any viruses-or at least, if I did, my mom didn't say anything. Those horrid ads though...one time I thought I'd downloaded my FAVOURITE song but didn't check, got on the bus to go to school and went to play the song so excitedly only to hear text to speech ad for malware instead...oh boy was I ever diligent after that. I also got those weird animated very not licensed screensavers that would pop up and play lines from Toy Story VERY LOUDLY whenever my pc went into sleep mode. It set off my sensory issues so badly I cried, couldn't sleep for days, and never used a downloaded screensaver ever again. Jesse screaming a horrible quality, blown out "YEEHAW" haunted my dreams
Dream Jelly always goes crazy with the editing!! This video is so cool, you should be so proud :3
The kids that downloaded these on the school computers were the real mvps
I was legit just diving the old web rabbit hole last night
Also I’m so proud of your growth, I’m happy I got to see you reach 100k+ subs :D I have watched every single video you put out
God, this is making me feel old. I had some of these things during an "Interactive Desktop" binge I had as a child. One of the few ones that stuck around for me are the DeviantArt Shimeji and some of AlienMelon's wares.
Nowadays, the only truly sketchy pieces of software I own are old programs and drivers for old devices. After quite a lot of scanning.
its kinda wild I loved that same watermelon cursor, you hit me hard with nostalgia with that one
YESS DREAM JELLY'S BACK WITH ANOTHER VIDEO ABOUT A TOPIC I NEVER KNEW I NEEDED CONTEXT ON !!
CP coin generators did work (sometimes), the thing with flash is that once decompilers started popping up (i.e JPEXS or Sothink), it was really hard for devs to hide what was going on, so mods could/would just fake the end of a minigame to add coins. Not sure if the one shown is legit, but I know there were some real coin, item, and puffle givers. Cloud Penguin was the trainer I used back then, and it had the first two I believe.
Oh god that "Say something" reactivated some previously long buried part of my brain
as a kid i almost never downloaded anything because i was under the impression that anything i didn't ask my parents for permission for was going to be a virus, and even if i did ask chances are my parents were going to say no (i would also have to explain why i want it, and just saying "it looks fun/cool" really wasn't gonna be enough). didn't help that once i got my first laptop + tablet i tried pirating paint tool sai off softonic and got a ton of bloatware LOL
so relatable. My first illegal music download was Avril Lavigne. RUclips to mp3 was also a favorite of mine. And yes to the toolbars! They were definitely common.
My first song download was Hatsune Miku lucky orb, needless to say it was great!
Mp3 Juice had my back in middle school
The editing in this video was great!
I was actually so haunted by the times I ended up downloading malware on the family computer that, to this day, I sometimes have nightmares where a bunch of random toolbars appear on my work computer, or random apps that I can't delete appear on my phone, I'm not joking, I dream about stuff like this constantly.
I remember downloading CometCursor as a kid, way back when; the novelty of the cursor changing based on what website I was on was so cool...until it broke Internet Explorer, and I had to learn how to uninstall it.
My stepfather was the one who taught me how to use Limewire (along with torrent clients but that's another topic), and I was hooked. I used it till the day it died and even used the Frostwire fork for awhile after before finally moving on to RUclips to MP3 Downloaders. Oh the memories of excitedly waiting for an Evanescence song to download only to hear a Bill Clinton imitator say he did not have sexual relations with that woman which I was too young to get the reference being made (tho I did quickly learn how to sus those out)
Lol the random sketchy search engine thing was a total throw back. I don't remember what the one that came up on our computer was called. I also have no idea where it would have come from because I don't remember ever downloading much or any random stuff online. Unless maybe my sisters did, idk
a lot of somewhat shady downloads snuck them in if you didn't carefully uncheck several checkboxes in "I agree" popups, I'm sure I inadvertently wound up with at least one
I remember seeing those ads for Smiley Central all the time, though I had no memory of it's name, all I recalled was the smiley going 'SAY SOMETHING'. That voice clip has haunted my memory for decades and I had given up hope of ever being able to trace it back to something, so seeing it appear casually in this video was a treat ;w;
This was one of your best videos yet! The editing was particularly good, great job!
Edit: Oh yeah, and leaping lemurs!
9:00 I remember the chaos I done by installing too much toolbars and desktop toys on family computer. They were terrified thinking I broke computer haha!
The club penguin coin generators did actually work!! I mean, I can say at least one or two definitely did. Club Penguin was my hyper fixation at 10 and I had a whole "cheats" blog and everything, with a "sizable" following for the time lmao. I legit thought I was a celebrity and boy my penguin was loaded 💰👀
I didn't even post cheats, idek what cheats there would've been besides using the coin generators??? All I really posted were like guides to find the hidden items in the clothing catalogue each month. I guess bc they were secret I thought that sharing it was cheating lmaooo
Your videos are so comforting. I love listening to them while I get ready in the morning
you're not alone about the toolbar thing
it seemed like every browser window back then ended up being at least 25% toolbar, especially if it belonged to an elderly person(including any older person even parents) who wouldn't know better nor how to reject these toolbars nor how to get rid of them
Girl you are just so funny, really happy I found your videos, I’m basically stopping it constantly just for a laugh-cry break
8:00 Toolbars were insane, I collected ones which hosted a random assortment of flash games. It always added ads, scam tools, or other junk as well. I was always shocked, like the toolbars were honestly advertised
Stranger: “What’s your job?” I work for a malware written smiley company” stranger: “uhmm, okay?”
Sorry to see you had COVID DreamJelly! Glad you're getting better. I feel like you're definitely a vinesauce joel fan after this video.
I had one time I used a club penguin coin generator and it actually worked, too bad that club penguin shut down, those 10 million coins are all gone
I have been watching this channel since the first episode and it’s always found a way to make me happy
I remember spending hours just scrolling through the animated smileys on Smiley Central. Did not use one, once. I'm not sure if I even realised there was any use for them beyond clicking on them to watch the Smiley fart or watch a round, yellow rendition of Aly and AJ wish me a Happy Birthday.
I vividly remember asking my mother "mum, what's a colonoscopy?" when I was 10 because one of the Smileys for some reason would say "Congrats on the colonoscopy, dude."
Then Smiley Central started advertising Zwinky and I became obsessed with virtual world chat rooms like that, V-Side and IMVU even though I was at least 3 years too young to be using those, talking to people way older than I was about things certainly not appropriate for a 10 year old and one time I "borrowed" my mother's credit card and spent $300 on IMVU credits and Potter Puppet Pals T-shirts because I didn't think she'd notice. Ah, the unsupervised internet access pipeline. Oh and spoiler alert, she did notice and I was in... a lot of trouble. She let me keep the shirts, though.
As a kid i remember downloading everything i came across to the point where my laptop became unusable due to the amount of adware i installed. But hey, at least i got my cool captain underpants mouse cursor.
Worth it for the cursor
I love how much I can relate to dream jelly’s videos almost every time, the Jonas brothers mentions always get me laughing especially
jobros fan 4 lyfe 🫡
omg the TOOLBARS!! I remember having to uninstall that crud almost every time I got online after Mom was using the computer. Dad and I had to have a sit-down talk with her about them lmao good times good times
Did she stop downloading them?
Omg the toolbar scene had my crying and when you start scrolling on the picture 😭😂😂
Back in about 2013, my (at the time) 9 year old little brother excitedly told me to come into his room, showing me a page on his computer going, "Look, I won a free iPod! I've always wanted one of these!" He had clicked on it and it was making him download a bunch of stuff in order to get it. 13 year old me who was traumatized from already having an experience with that on my own laptop (that my step dad had to remove all the viruses from afterwards - my curser would move on its own!), I yelled at him to get off the page, uninstall/delete anything it made him download, and that he didn't really win anything. I made him cry accidentally and he was so heartbroken 😭I still feel guilty about that sometimes seeing how crushed/embarrassed he was when he found out it wasn't real, but I'm glad he showed me before he caused serious damage to his computer. Sometimes you need a little scare to get a lesson too, the both of us haven't had any viruses since (knock on wood). I love early 2000s webcore for the nostalgia, but I'm also glad the internet is where it is currently with people being more knowledgeable on internet safety.
your entire toolbar edit made me choke laughing i appreciate that.
I used to have sooo many toolbars and generally malware-ridden programs partly because i curious but also because i used to play foopets and i could get foodollars (the premium currency) if i downloaded them. I was both tech savvy enough to not mess w/ the websites that asked for any sort of card number or personal info but still the fool who downloaded an imvu toolbar for the pittance of 20FD at the cost of my computer.
Hell yeah new video! The internet back then was still pretty new ground and it was pretty much anything goes. I saw so much as a kid I probably shouldn’t have good times I used to actually like bonzi buddy
I just love ur channel so much it’s exactly my niche and I swear you bring back the fun in RUclips!
i feel the exact same way about not getting into pokemon tcg as a kid, except with amassing heinous amounts of smilies to show off to my friends in msn messenger😂 this whole video is a gold mine as someone else who grew up spending all their free time on the internet in the early 2000s thank u for all these unlocked memories💖