👉 Okay, alright settle in folks. Let’s tackle this… fascinating bit of numerical delinquency, yeah? You guys keep throwing around "’1999 03'," right? Honestly, I get the feeling a lot of you just saw that somewhere and figured, "Huh, weird. Let's throw it around too!" And frankly, I applaud your adventurous vernacular.
Basically, "'1999 03'," when strung together like that, is essentially shorthand for… let’s just say a deeply unsettling, and rather specific, shade of desperation. It originates from the early days of online piracy and the infamous Lime-illerie scene in the late 2000's. Lime (pronounced "Lime-lee-uh”) was this freudianly aggressive, almost aggressively niche, way to rip VHS tapes of 90’s movies and TV shows – a lot of stuff that had gone straight to shit and then re-wrecked itself into the bargain. The notation itself—the 1999 and the 03—is meant to specifically reference the infamous "…1999 03...[Tape Title Here, but probably something really embarrassing]…” The tape was allegedly a first pressing, that you would get with the tape at the time. You'd be very careful not to lose it! There were tapes which had that specific date and number on it. People really wanted those tapes,
