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Rambling Robot
Sep 13, 2011
Duggar Fan Club Superstar #1 LOL

you were warned posted:

The forums still let you put an ICQ number in your profile, so it can't be THAT outdated!

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Mak0rz
Aug 2, 2008

😎🐗🚬

thathonkey posted:

i used to think that she just had really weird nipples

don't worry pal, we all did

So... did you get the CD version or did you go the way of my friend and get the floppy version that came on 13 disks? :D

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012

Mak0rz posted:

don't worry pal, we all did

So... did you get the CD version or did you go the way of my friend and get the floppy version that came on 13 disks? :D

i had the cd version it looked just like the one pictured (different box though).

i remember getting it in a physical store (CompUSA or Circuit City it would have been) and it came with this free mouse pad:

Bonzo
Mar 11, 2004

Just like Mama used to make it!
I don't remember the names but there were a few brute force apps out there that I used to get into porn sites.

Also Carol Cox and Wifey's World are still producing content it seems.

Skeleton Ape
Dec 21, 2008



Wicker Man posted:

I remember being at my cousin/Aunt's house, and staring wistfully at these screens. I begged, but it just wasn't happening.



A kid at school gave me the shareware and that's all I had for a long time, until one Christmas I convinced my mom to get me Doom 2 (on CD!) :aaaaa:

KiteAuraan
Aug 5, 2014

JER GEDDA FERDA RADDA ARA!


There was this one game I used to play the gently caress out of that I cannot remember the name of for the life of me. It was a point and click edutainment thing in Egypt. I remember getting freaked out when you go into Abu Simbel and a statue of Ramses II with glowing eyes yells at you about some poo poo.

Quote-Unquote
Oct 22, 2002



Carrion Luggage
Nov 24, 2006


I still have the plain white cd sent out to alpha testers for UO. One day I will sell it to some nerd.

Quote-Unquote
Oct 22, 2002



Can I have it please?

Also if anyone will sell me ultima I with the coins or II with the map for prices that aren't $500 like on eBay that would be cool

Nolan Arenado
May 8, 2009

I remember when I was 7 or 8 my family bought Dark Seed:



I remember between myself, mom, and dad, we played that game so drat much and probably only got like 10% through.

Years later I found a step by step guide to beat it and it was very cathartic.

Jisei
Dec 22, 2004

A tiny bundle of supressed instincts held together by spit and caffeine.

PDP-1 posted:

- Downloading a copy of The Anarchist's Cookbook off some BBS at my friend's house, saving it on a 5.25" floppy drive that I hid under my mattress where the FBI would never think to look for it, and feeling like a smug outlaw badass for pulling off that perfect crime.

I still have my dot-matrix-printed copy "hidden" in a long-disused piano bench. Never did anything in it but "I'm a culture jammer" :haw:

Anyway, GI Joe on the C64:



Dirmagic:



Operation Overkill door game:



...And of course, who could forget those hyper-edgy .txt 'zines like I Bleed for This?

SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva
I wanna play elf bowling someone find a copy that's not viruses from 2001

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdaM5Mv-TTo

Aleph Null
Jun 10, 2008

You look very stressed
Tortured By Flan
NFO files and truly impressive, hand-made ASCII art.

Bonzo
Mar 11, 2004

Just like Mama used to make it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocmJE2O4uIU&feature=youtu.be

Philthy
Jan 28, 2003

Pillbug







Dicere
Oct 31, 2005
Non plaudite modo pecuniam jacite.

Legend of the Red Dragon, Exitilus, and Tradewars 2020 were all very much my poo poo.

Buttcoin purse
Apr 24, 2014


What the hell, this is the shareware version, but on a CD in a box? Shareware versions are meant to be downloaded from BBSes and then traded on floppies in the school yard!


:swoon: PC Magazine utilities, except in this case from something called "PC Computing" which I never heard of but is from Ziff-Davis publishing too apparently and presumably has the same software in it? Anyway their ANSI.COM was cool because you could control the size of the buffer used to store key rebindings so that people couldn't rebind some key your keyboard to FORMAT C:.

Isaac
Aug 3, 2006

Fun Shoe
Using a http packet editor to spoof the referral on porn sites to get in the members section for free

SPACE HOMOS
Jan 12, 2005

thathonkey posted:

i had the cd version it looked just like the one pictured (different box though).

i remember getting it in a physical store (CompUSA or Circuit City it would have been) and it came with this free mouse pad:



I am still using my duke3d mouse pad!

Howard Beale
Feb 22, 2001

It's like this, Peanut
congratulation

Sevalar
Jul 10, 2009

HEY RADICAL LARRY HOW ABOUT A HAIRCUT

****MIC TO THE WILLY***
Did anyone remember Talkany.exe? It was a text to speech program which had multiple voice EQS and was hours of entertainment circa 2004?! You had men and women voices, robots, kids, old man style. It was just some free download and I remember having a blast with it .

ANIME IS BLOOD
Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot

simosimo posted:

Did anyone remember Talkany.exe? It was a text to speech program which had multiple voice EQS and was hours of entertainment circa 2004?! You had men and women voices, robots, kids, old man style. It was just some free download and I remember having a blast with it .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55P-UHdZ7WI

Vladimir Poutine
Aug 13, 2012
:madmax:
anyone else remember sillyware.com? You could download small .exe things that were supposed to be funny like elf bowling, desktop toys and that thing that put christmas lights around the border of your windows 98 desktop. It also had lots of "silly" .mpeg files, like a video of some guy getting sucked into a jet engine.

Sevalar
Jul 10, 2009

HEY RADICAL LARRY HOW ABOUT A HAIRCUT

****MIC TO THE WILLY***
I remember Christmas lights.

I also remember Kill Sadam. You had little cartoon sadams running on your desktop and you could kill them with LMB anvils and rockets which would come from the left or right of the screen.

I also remember desktop killer (?) you had some tools to kill your desktop. You had a hammer, a machine gun, flame thrower,plasma gun, a stamp gun (I know) and a paint gun to ruin your desktop. This app basically applied 'destruction' sprites on your desktop, but it was so cool at the time.

coolskull
Nov 11, 2007

simosimo posted:

I also remember desktop killer (?) you had some tools to kill your desktop. You had a hammer, a machine gun, flame thrower,plasma gun, a stamp gun (I know) and a paint gun to ruin your desktop. This app basically applied 'destruction' sprites on your desktop, but it was so cool at the time.

one of them was termites. sometimes i'd set down just one termite before i left the house and see how much progress it made when i got back.

Vladimir Poutine
Aug 13, 2012
:madmax:

simosimo posted:

I remember Christmas lights.

I also remember Kill Sadam. You had little cartoon sadams running on your desktop and you could kill them with LMB anvils and rockets which would come from the left or right of the screen.

I also remember desktop killer (?) you had some tools to kill your desktop. You had a hammer, a machine gun, flame thrower,plasma gun, a stamp gun (I know) and a paint gun to ruin your desktop. This app basically applied 'destruction' sprites on your desktop, but it was so cool at the time.

I think there was a thing where you could bounce things off of your desktop with a spring and have them splat like bags of flour and raw chickens

Sevalar
Jul 10, 2009

HEY RADICAL LARRY HOW ABOUT A HAIRCUT

****MIC TO THE WILLY***

LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:

one of them was termites. sometimes i'd set down just one termite before i left the house and see how much progress it made when i got back.

poo poo, yeah I loved termites too. Why don't we have that stuff today? I suppose it would be considered spyware or some poo poo.

Cyril Sneer
Aug 8, 2004

Life would be simple in the forest except for Cyril Sneer. And his life would be simple except for The Raccoons.
Flying out of the sun, the smell of toast is in the air
When there's a job to be done, the flying toasters will be there!

Chief McHeath
Apr 23, 2002

alt.sex.stories

ShiroTheSniper
Mar 19, 2009

I see dead arrows.
Lipstick Apathy
I wanna trick everyone again with goldie.exe on the startup of Windows 3.0

Sono
Apr 9, 2008




Trent Reznor getting banned repeatedly from Compuserve for impersonating Trent Reznor.

Buying a game online and having the publisher call to verify the credit card transaction. (World Empire IV.)

Getting a friend's AOL password, logging into AOL as yourself, starting a convo with them, and then logging into the standalone AIM app as them and spamming "im gay."

Snow Cone Capone
Jul 31, 2003


Sono posted:

Trent Reznor getting banned repeatedly from Compuserve for impersonating Trent Reznor.

Wait what?

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012

Aleph Null posted:

NFO files and truly impressive, hand-made ASCII art.

ANSI art was the most impressive to me ill link some later when not on my phone

A FUCKIN CANARY!!
Nov 9, 2005


simosimo posted:

I also remember desktop killer (?) you had some tools to kill your desktop. You had a hammer, a machine gun, flame thrower,plasma gun, a stamp gun (I know) and a paint gun to ruin your desktop. This app basically applied 'destruction' sprites on your desktop, but it was so cool at the time.

I have this as "stress.exe", still with a modification date from 2000. It somehow still works fine on modern Windows.

I also had some collection of "prank" programs that were actually subtle enough to be entertaining. They do stuff like randomly turn on caps lock once every few hours or make an image of your choosing flash on the screen for 1/60 of a second.

Snow Cone Capone
Jul 31, 2003


A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:

I have this as "stress.exe", still with a modification date from 2000. It somehow still works fine on modern Windows.

I'm pretty sure it just takes a screenshot of your desktop and then lets you mess with that screenshot. It's basically MSPaint with fancy brush effects.

Mak0rz
Aug 2, 2008

😎🐗🚬

https://www.joecartoon.com

sorry but if you were a fan of the old site you will be disappointed

Jesus Christ
Jun 1, 2000

mods if you can make this my avatar I will gladly pay 10bux to the coffers

thathonkey posted:

tucows

encarta

bitchx, mirc

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012
i was about to compliment your continued support and usage of mirc because it owns but ruuuuude

what is #gbs like

Carrion Luggage
Nov 24, 2006


:filez:

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thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012
PS. maybe read some of your inbox mail you filthy heathen

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