In 2013 someone paid to store all the lyrics to a song on the blockchain.

[Accardo]

The early stage of bitcoin usage was as fun as childhood. As bitcoin grows, it's expected to face different challenges and difficulties, like in adulthood. Although bitcoin is at its teenage age, most of the hilarious bitcoin expenditure happened in the first 3-4 years of bitcoin's existence. For instance, on the 5th of November 2013, someone paid to store the lyrics of "Never Gonna Give You Up" on the bitcoin blockchain forever. The lyrics to the song are on block 468060 with 494267 confirmations. This transaction reminds me of the numerous uses of the bitcoin blockchain aside from trading coins. It's fascinating to utilize not one but all aspects of the blockchain. But, a colossal amount of users have sunned themselves under the profits and loss of trading in the blockchain network. And neglect other features that makes the blockchain unique and decentralize.

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[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

Blockchain technology has many applications whereby the government and centralized institutions have interest to utilize this great opportunity and many industries also get this done to secure their future portfolios in using blockchain technology, i think there could be more engagement on this discussion with members if the thread moved to Beginners and help or economics.

[thirdprize]

Once it is on the blockchain there is no way to get rid of it. 
https://gizmodo.com/someone-uploaded-child-pornography-to-a-blockchain-ledg-1832398480

[Marcellin9]

Almost ten years ago, someone paid to store song lyrics on the blockchain. The only explanation to this is that he or she was truly ahead of time. He or she knew that one day, blockchains will change the way how society works and people will eventually store information on-chain. A giant step ahead of time. Big upvote for him or her !!

[o48o]

Blockchain technology has many applications whereby the government and centralized institutions have interest to utilize this great opportunity and many industries also get this done to secure their future portfolios in using blockchain technology, i think there could be more engagement on this discussion with members if the thread moved to Beginners and help or economics.

Yet it's mainly known for making people rich or poor. It's known for scammers rug pulling investors, crypto (sextortion) blackmails, drugs, money laundering, ico bubble where it was mainly sold as a solution to problems that doesn't require blockchain in the first place, rich and poor people bragging with collectable jpgs, PoW as a waste of energy that's destroying the planet. All this without understanding how it any of it works, and apparently it's occasionally Rick Rolling people.

We need a serious PR upgrade.

[Wiwo]

A lot of early adopters of Bitcoin use the technology to try many things since their know that blockchain technology is the safest place to store records and transactions forever which are verifiable at any time using the transactions harsh, this will also protect the song from piracy. Even up till this very moment, the blockchain is being used by many around the world to store and make transactions, the opportunity and services that offer true blockchain and even the government are taking advantage which is why there has been wider adoption of Bitcoin among people.

[nc50lc]

For instance, on the 5th of November 2013, someone paid to store the lyrics of "Never Gonna Give You Up" on the bitcoin blockchain forever.
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This transaction reminds me of the numerous uses of the bitcoin blockchain aside from trading coins. It's fascinating to utilize not one but all aspects of the blockchain.

Yeah, utilizing the blockchain for the lolz.

For those who aren't aware, that song is a famous MEME: "RickRoll".
Some "men of culture" usually swap links into the Youtube video of "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley instead of the intended/displayed URL.

[CryptoHeadlineNews]

A lot of early adopters of Bitcoin use the technology to try many things

Yes, No doubt the early first miners of Bitcoin used it for a whole lot of things, both known and unknown that are yet to be uncovered, as that was its stage of testing and exploitation, just as we could see in the case of the famous Bitcoin pizza where we were all told how "Laszlo Hanyecz" paid 10,000 BTC for just only two pizzas, and today we heard of someone who paid 0.008 BTC to store all the lyrics of a song on the blockchain (worth $8 at $1000/BTC back then in 2013).

[stompix]

For those who aren't aware, that song is a famous MEME: "RickRoll".
Some "men of culture" usually swap links into the Youtube video of "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley instead of the intended/displayed URL.

Please don't use "men of culture"!  
It also has a different meaning, every time I screen animes for my kid and my older nephew I check the comments and if there are some like "We are all men of culture", or "My cultured senses were tingling." it means it's not really an anime but pure hentai!

Almost ten years ago, someone paid to store song lyrics on the blockchain. The only explanation to this is that he or she was truly ahead of time.

Yeah, how about no!
People try to leave their marks on everything, there are hundreds of messages from stupid quotes, to prayers, to links, everything.
Satoshi did so with the first block, hundreds tried to copy him for fun.
Not everyone who did so was a "visionary" some did it out of boredom.
https://decrypt.co/55642/the-5-best-secret-messages-hidden-on-the-bitcoin-blockchain

Once it is on the blockchain there is no way to get rid of it.  
https://gizmodo.com/someone-uploaded-child-pornography-to-a-blockchain-ledg-1832398480

That's on the BSV chain, once CSW finally goes to jail for all his scams that chain will die just like hundreds of shitcoins have died.
The blockchain is not something that magically keeps data alive, it's the same as a torrent, if there are enough seeds the file will be available forever if nobody shares it or in the blockchain case, there is no full node available the chain is dead and nobody can retrieve the data anymore.

[Accardo]

That's on the BSV chain, once CSW finally goes to jail for all his scams that chain will die just like hundreds of shitcoins have died.
The blockchain is not something that magically keeps data alive, it's the same as a torrent, if there are enough seeds the file will be available forever if nobody shares it or in the blockchain case, there is no full node available the chain is dead and nobody can retrieve the data anymore.

Blockchain, @stompix, cannot run out of full nodes or do you see a situation where it happens? at first glance you sounded like it can occur. However, I have a question, when they are no full nodes available and later on a full node connects to the network would they be a means of retrieving transactions that happened during downtime? what do you think will happen to the already stored transactions?

[stompix]

Blockchain, @stompix, cannot run out of full nodes or do you see a situation where it happens?

Again, neither the blockchain nor nodes are something that exists like air everywhere without human assistance, they are databases, and nodes are the copies of that database hosted by someone, if those persons decide it's not worth hosting the nodes anymore as the said shitcoin (BSV in this case) is worthless then there will be no reachable copy of the blockchain anywhere and nobody can run it anymore.

Go to the end of the altcoin announcement board here
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=159.0;sort=last_post
And check, are all those dead shitcoins's blockchains still reachable?

However, I have a question, when they are no full nodes available and later on a full node connects to the network would they be a means of retrieving transactions that happened during downtime?

If there are no full nodes there is no mempool, and there is no network at all, so if one full node comes back online from its slumber it will have no idea what happened while it was offline, it will have no idea even about the blocks that were mined after it shut down.