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DarthBlingBling posted:I have the greatest email address: looking@goatse.cx That's pretty great, but it doesn't make me feel better about losing "batman@yahoo.com". On the upside, I did score [my lastname].[my firstname]@gmail.com, which is nice.
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DoctorWhat posted:That's pretty great, but it doesn't make me feel better about losing "batman@yahoo.com". Me too. Did you know that gmail ignores the dot. Great way to have 'infinite' email address to sign up for poo poo. Don't know if this is common with email suppliers?
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May 17, 2014 19:24
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Jedit posted:Which was released in 1996, so no you don't. The shareware was released Jan 96, so my apologies for being a month off after not thinking about it in 20 years.
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May 17, 2014 19:28
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DarthBlingBling posted:Me too. Did you know that gmail ignores the dot. Great way to have 'infinite' email address to sign up for poo poo. Yeah, I'm aware.
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May 17, 2014 19:29
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A few months ago I found a printout of the E-mail with my Kali registration codes from 1996 (sent to the family AOL account, of course.) It even mentions OS/2 in the instructions. Lots of good times using the DOS terminate-and-stay-resident version to play Descent 2.
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May 17, 2014 19:32
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I remember being so geeked about OS/2. It ran Windows 3.1 programs... and DOS programs... andos/2 programs! What could be the downside?! Myu only actual interaction with OS/2 was with my college's IBM-sponsored mainframe program, which still had a PIII OS/2 box controlling the DASD. I changed the theme on the windows 3.1 session to hotdog stand, and no one noticed because no one ever touched it. 
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May 17, 2014 20:00
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A Pinball Wizard posted:I remember being so geeked about OS/2. It ran Windows 3.1 programs... and DOS programs... andos/2 programs! What could be the downside?! Every IBM mainframe OS/2 controller PC I have ever seen has had the theme set to hotdog stand. I was starting to believe that that is how they shipped.
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Lowen SoDium posted:Every IBM mainframe OS/2 controller PC I have ever seen has had the theme set to hotdog stand. I was starting to believe that that is how they shipped. The problem is that no one can resist hotdog stand. It's the loving Sirens of Windows 3.1.
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May 17, 2014 20:41
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Krakox posted:I'm 90% sure this is it: Sorry for bringing this post back from a page ago, but I've read this story a few times since it first appeared and I've never really understood what the story was trying to tell and/or make me feel. It's a total non-story. Man remembers old game from his youth he couldn't finish, seeks out the creator. Creator turns out to be Randomly Crazy, but gives him a version of the game that has two extra screens, one of which is an ending screen. Was it just that the guy didn't know the right answer as a kid? EDIT: Here, I'll add this: It's not obsolete, I suppose, but I really dread the day when my ZEN X-Fi2 I use for my car's MP3 player breaks or stops working. The reason? When I plug it in, my car identifies it as a USB device, meaning (minus an initial 'Indexing' period) the songs immediately and their details show up on the display. Other MP3 devices I've used, my car sees it as an MP3 player, meaning it takes 5-6 seconds for a song's details to show up on the display. It's a minor  thing but it's important to me, and I have no idea why the two operate differently in the first place.
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May 17, 2014 20:46
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Internet Friend posted:A few months ago I found a printout of the E-mail with my Kali registration codes from 1996 (sent to the family AOL account, of course.) It even mentions OS/2 in the instructions. Lots of good times using the DOS terminate-and-stay-resident version to play Descent 2. I have fond memories of playing multiplayer Descent over Kahn (which was a free alternative to Kali) in 1997. I never liked it much as a single player game, but multiplayer Descent was absolutely amazing. Unfortunately after around 1999 or so it was impossible to find anyone playing it. The game and ipx network emulation could all easily be handled by DOSBox now days but finding people willing to play is another matter.
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May 17, 2014 21:49
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I'm pretty sure D2x added normal tcp/ip network modes, so you don't have to worry about much besides finding buddies to play with.
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May 17, 2014 22:10
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DoctorWhat posted:On the upside, I did score [my lastname].[my firstname]@gmail.com, which is nice. A couple of months ago I apparently got added to some grade school's PTA mailing list, so I occasionally get emails like "Remember to pack your child a bagged lunch for tomorrow's field trip".
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May 17, 2014 23:15
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Shugojin posted:The problem is that no one can resist hotdog stand. It's the loving Sirens of Windows 3.1. According to some website I found somewhere, these are the color values for the hotdog stand theme, for those of you who want to recreate the magic: code:
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May 18, 2014 00:04
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Collateral Damage posted:I have firstname.lastname@gmail.com and my name isn't terribly unique, which means I occasionally receive mail for other people with my name. I get some guys bank statement reminders and (as of last week) bulletins for a Google AdWords account about turbine maintenance. I cannot figure out what permutation of my name he could have that he keeps loving up when I have firstname.lastname.
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May 18, 2014 00:07
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It could be firstnamemlastname and he's forgetting his middle initial.
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May 18, 2014 00:11
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I get emails for a black version of me in New York who's looking into adopting a dog and the financial reports for a Aussie version of me who's a human rights lawyer. I also get his air miles emails to which he's earned near a million. He earns millions and has a huge estate. But he ain't got his name at Gmail.com!
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May 18, 2014 00:12
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I have [lastname]@gmail.com and I swear to christ half the people in the European country that my last name comes from seem to use my gmail address to sign up for poo poo and then I get a bunch of account confirmation emails in the language of that country, which I can only kind of understand a little bit of.
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May 18, 2014 00:19
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My mobile number has a lot of double digits (to the point where I've had people assume it's fake) and I once got a call reminding me to bring my child to the Nottingham Children's Hospital outpatient clinic in two days time. Amusing, since I live a few hundred miles away, and I am single, and I have no children.
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May 18, 2014 01:11
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MisterBibs posted:Sorry for bringing this post back from a page ago, but I've read this story a few times since it first appeared and I've never really understood what the story was trying to tell and/or make me feel. It's a total non-story. Man remembers old game from his youth he couldn't finish, seeks out the creator. Creator turns out to be Randomly Crazy, but gives him a version of the game that has two extra screens, one of which is an ending screen. Was it just that the guy didn't know the right answer as a kid? I think the point of the story is to be a counterpoint to others like it. Sometimes what seems like a mystery isn't, sometimes great effort only bring disappointment, and sometimes not knowing is more enjoyable than learning the truth.
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:I get some guys bank statement reminders and (as of last week) bulletins for a Google AdWords account about turbine maintenance. I cannot figure out what permutation of my name he could have that he keeps loving up when I have firstname.lastname. 
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May 18, 2014 07:59
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I wonder if it works with instagram? 1975 Kodak prototype of a digital camera, with fancy cassette tape storage. http://petapixel.com/2010/08/05/the-worlds-first-digital-camera-by-kodak-and-steve-sasson/
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Collateral Damage posted:I have firstname.lastname@gmail.com and my name isn't terribly unique, which means I occasionally receive mail for other people with my name. This is precisely why I made my usernames/e-mail names complete and utter gibberish.
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I have firstname.lastname@gmail too, but I think I'm the only person in the United States with my name, there's barely a handful of people with my last name and my first name is even less common, so I never get weird emails for someone else. There's a bunch of people that either give the wrong number or are close to mine for Google Voice though, I've gotten all kinds of messages, some of them urgent sounding.
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A while back, people were complaining about WAP. I'm going to bring that back, sort of. WAP was awful. Not as powerful as HTTP+HTML, and far harder to work with than another technology that belongs here: Gopher. Back in 1990-1991, University of Minnesota was setting up a Campus-Wide Information System. Now, very early work on the World Wide Web did exist at the time, but it was very much an experimental project at the time - if memory serves, NeXT was the only platform that had a reasonably functional web browser. This wouldn't do, their system needed to be accessible from, and even hostable on, everything from big iron to the tiny lovely DOS machines that ruled the desktop world. Gopher was the result: a simple protocol that had a simple menu format and file transfer capability. It didn't have fancy markup, just menus and plain text. And it worked. Here's an example of two Gopher menus, in Lynx:   Notice something? They both look basically the same, and neither has a bunch of crappy clutter. That's because all that color and formatting is client side: all the server is sending is a basic menu. Of course, that's also the reason it pretty much lost to HTTP+HTML, most likely: little room for branding or flashy gifs everywhere. Still, it was and remains an absolute breeze to work with and would have been perfect for early handsets. If you want to mess with it without installing anything, there's a proxy run by the same guy as the menu in the first screenshot.. There's also an "Overbite" extension to add native support back to Firefox and Seamonkey, if you like. Keiya has a new favorite as of 09:56 on May 19, 2014 |
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Keiya posted:Gopher stuff I have a feeling that there are a lot of those running with a lot of suspicious material for some reason.
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Keiya posted:Gopher Ah, but Gopher was not alone, there was also, the wonder know as HyTELNET  It's pretty much the same as gopher, just done differently.
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HyTelnet did indeed exist, but it wouldn't have been nearly as suited for mobile phone use. It was heavily oriented towards accessing telnet services, which would be absolute hell on T9.
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May 19, 2014 13:58
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I expect that someone somewhere is still running Archie.
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I'm not sure whether the videos are available outside the UK, but the Tomorrow's World archive is a treasure trove of obsolete and failed tech. Look at these teenage spods operating an electro-mechanical computer. e: This is pretty fascinating as well. The precursor to the drawing tablet, from 1967 no less. Daktar has a new favorite as of 15:00 on May 19, 2014 |
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SybilVimes posted:Ah, but Gopher was not alone, there was also, the wonder know as HyTELNET Wow, that really reminds me of the old terminals at the public library I used to visit as a kid, used for searching through the library's catalog.
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Code Jockey posted:Wow, that really reminds me of the old terminals at the public library I used to visit as a kid, used for searching through the library's catalog. The telnet catalog at my county library still worked the last time I connected to it, and it was faster to use than the web one!
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Daktar posted:I'm not sure whether the videos are available outside the UK, but the Tomorrow's World archive is a treasure trove of obsolete and failed tech. Look at these teenage spods operating an electro-mechanical computer. You should check out Sketchpad. It might be a similar or the same technology, but considering this ran on a room sized transistor based computer in the late 60s, it's incredibly impressive. I remember reading in an interview with the creator, who was a fairly novice programmer at the time, they asked how he managed to implement an object oriented coding system in a time when so many other programmers were struggling to come up with a good solution. He just said he didn't know it was supposed to be hard.
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Ishamael posted:Going through some old college stuff and found a bunch of videos I made, stored on this fine format back in 2000: I'm digging this up from a couple pages, but the D2 formats was still being used at CBS Television for broadcasting the standard definition versions of their shows. That was up until 2005, the last time I worked on a CBS show. I'm sure they are still using it, or were until 2010-ish. They used the D5 format for broadcasting the HD version at the time too. That tape was smaller, but looked way more delicate than a D2.
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Daktar posted:I'm not sure whether the videos are available outside the UK, but the Tomorrow's World archive is a treasure trove of obsolete and failed tech. Look at these teenage spods operating an electro-mechanical computer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1DtY42xEOI
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mints posted:I have firstname.lastname@gmail too, but I think I'm the only person in the United States with my name, there's barely a handful of people with my last name and my first name is even less common, so I never get weird emails for someone else. There's a bunch of people that either give the wrong number or are close to mine for Google Voice though, I've gotten all kinds of messages, some of them urgent sounding. Does gmail have any other options like .ca etc? Everyone with an android phone around the world has to have a gmail address I believe, not to mention every other Google service usually at least works better with one. My name is unheard of in North America but there are hundreds with it in Germany and Denmark. had to use (first name)(middle name)(half of last name)@gmail.com.
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Daktar posted:I'm not sure whether the videos are available outside the UK, but the Tomorrow's World archive is a treasure trove of obsolete and failed tech. Look at these teenage spods operating an electro-mechanical computer. Proto dork that I was I loved Tomorrow's World when I was young, up until it went poo poo anyway. That's something that seems to be bordering on obsolete: decent tv science programs. When I was young it was awesome poo poo like inside Chernobyl and mad potential cancer cures, recently Horizon had "are psychic powers real" or some bullshit like that and I don't think it was just "no" repeated for half an hour. This probably just means I'm getting old thougg. That and the internet has probably stolen most of the core audience.
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atomicthumbs posted:The telnet catalog at my county library still worked the last time I connected to it, and it was faster to use than the web one! Mine was faster, easier, and shut down in 2003. 
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leidend posted:Does gmail have any other options like .ca etc? Everyone with an android phone around the world has to have a gmail address I believe, not to mention every other Google service usually at least works better with one. I know when the service first started it was googlemail.com in the UK for some reason, but I'm not sure if there's other options out there.
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:That's something that seems to be bordering on obsolete: decent tv science programs. The new Cosmos with Neil DeGrasse Tyson is pretty awesome.
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mints posted:I know when the service first started it was googlemail.com in the UK for some reason, but I'm not sure if there's other options out there.
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