Lithium Node

About Lithium NodeIt all started back in June of 1996. Some guy in a chat room gave me my first prefix, 4019-1, and I used that to sign on AOL for free. I soon got a list of invokes, which were the "in" thing at the time. One of the invokes at the bottom of the list (40-13 785) led to an area which contained.....
BearShare

BearShare was a peer-to-peer-file-sharing-application originally created by Free Peers, Inc. for Microsoft Windows and also a rebranded version of iMesh by MusicLab, LLC, tightly integrated with their music subscription service. The principal operators of Free Peers, Inc. were Vincent Falco and Louis Tatta. Bearshare was launched on December 4, 2000, as a Gnutella-based peer-to-peer file sharing application with innovative features that eventually grew to include IRC, a free library of software and.....
WinMX

WinMX (Windows Music Exchange) is a freewarepeer-to-peer file sharing program authored in 2000 by Kevin Hearn (president of Frontcode Technologies) in Windsor, Ontario (Canada).  According to one study, it was the number one source for online music in 2005 with an estimated 2.1 million users. Frontcode Technologies itself abandoned development of WinMX in September 2005, but developers brought the service back online within a few days by releasing patches. WinMX continues.....
Operator of Helix Darknet Cryptocurrency ‘Mixer’ Sentenced in Money Laundering Conspiracy Involving Hundreds of Millions of Dollars

WASHINGTON — Larry Dean Harmon, 41, of Akron, Ohio, was sentenced today to three years in prison for his operation of the darknet cryptocurrency “mixer” Helix, which processed transactions involving over $300 million worth of cryptocurrency from 2014 to 2017.             The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves for the District of Columbia; Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney.....
Akron Prodigy’s Death as Mysterious as His Short Life RJ2 Ryan Johnson

Submitted by Richard Gedeon The Independent (clevelandindependent.com) In the quiet, early-morning hours of January 14, a faint orange glow danced in the window of a tudor mansion on West Market, in a tony section of Akron that sees little real crime. The glow became more brilliant and gray smoke soon began billowing into the night sky. Around 2:40 a.m., a man inside the home called.....
LimeWire

LimeWire was a free peer-to-peer file sharing client for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Solaris.[1] Created by Mark Gorton[2][3][4] in 2000, it was most prominently a tool used for the download and distribution of pirated materials, particularly pirated music.[5] In 2007, LimeWire was estimated to be installed on over one-third of all computers globally.[6] Both a zero-cost version and a purchasable "enhanced" version called LimeWire Pro were available; however, LimeWire Pro could be acquired for free through the standard LimeWire.....
Keyword Kids Only

As it was, still on the AOL system as of 03/10/2003. Not the actual AOL 2.5 Kids Only area, but believed to be the one used in AOL 3.0 previews (and now linked to AOL 2.5 for some reason). A somewhat modified version was used in AOL 3.0 and early AOL 4.0.
RANT:  Your Link Here

RANT It's funny as I sit here scrolling on this site trying to come up with a few ideas to get inspired to write a post. Well as of right now I was browsing the main page and came to the Links section. Glanced at a few of the links then I came to the last one. "Your Link Here". Fucking crazy that in 10.....
{S Welcome

I haven't ranted in a year. Jesus. Time's going by so fast. Back in the AOL Days I would of already had 24 different domain names and probably 10 different layout changes Lol. Well if you haven't noticed I've been actually working on the site a lot lately even though I haven't posted :-). I have so much to do here and ideas just flowing.....