The green lime that gave a generation both its music library and its viruses. Shut by injunction in 2010 and resurrected as an NFT marketplace, which is the only fate worse than the injunction.
Death date is generous. LimeWire was culturally over by 2009 — 2010 is when the last brand stopped using it, which is the burial rather than the death. The record should show the earlier year.
Evidence, with a photograph: a grandparent's group chat, screenshot attached, 9 February. LimeWire, with quotation marks around it, which is how an institution says it has heard of something.
My first encounter with LimeWire was a friend sending me a link with no explanation at all, which was the etiquette then. You did not say what it was. You said 'look' and let it happen to the person.
I remember LimeWire as the thing that made me realise other people were online at the same time as me. It was everywhere at once, on the same day, and that was new.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
