"Ripping": farts or mp3s

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Where does this term "ripping" come from?

― Mr. Vocabulary, Friday, 24 December 2004 07:06 (twenty years ago)

it's something you do to get to the gooey goodness inside, and it makes a noise.

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Friday, 24 December 2004 07:09 (twenty years ago)

That is... horrific, actually.

― Mr. Vocabulary, Friday, 24 December 2004 07:11 (twenty years ago)

http://gfx.dagbladet.no/nyheter/2004/03/09/jackXart.jpg

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 24 December 2004 07:14 (twenty years ago)

Did Jack the Ripper just fart on people, killing them and turning them green? Is that it?

― Mr. Vocabulary, Friday, 24 December 2004 07:15 (twenty years ago)

yes

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 24 December 2004 08:12 (twenty years ago)

its a secret freemason finishing move.

― :| (....), Friday, 24 December 2004 08:33 (twenty years ago)

Whitechapel is a long way from Turnham Green

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 24 December 2004 10:52 (twenty years ago)

according to dictionary.com:

rip

v. 1. To extract the digital representation of a piece of
music from an audio CD. Software that does this is often called a
"CD ripper". 2. [Amiga hackers] To extract sound or graphics from a
program that they have been compiled/assembled into, or which
generates them at run-time. In the case of older Amiga games this
entails searching through memory shortly after a reboot. This sense
has been in use for many years and probably gave rise to the (now
more common) sense 1.

Makes sense to me, actually.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Friday, 24 December 2004 10:54 (twenty years ago)

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