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Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



[ASK] me about OS/2 Warp
i still use the Propaganda tile pack that shipped with enlightenment for my desktops, set to rotate every 30 mins

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Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
thats badass

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

Silver Alicorn posted:

I loved enlightenment

i never even beat druid

PIZZA.BAT
Nov 12, 2016


:cheers:


lol i just got a notification that someone followed me on ello

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

PIZZA.BAT posted:

lol i just got a notification that someone followed me on ello

Ellomarf

Beve Stuscemi
Jun 6, 2001




Unless
Jul 24, 2005

I art



ello was the one that reminded me what Facebook was like before everyone’s parents and olds joined

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
Yo

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
I think Sneaking Mission finally stopped trying to get me to use Peach

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



[ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

PIZZA.BAT posted:

lol i just got a notification that someone followed me on ello

i got a like on my one and only ello post from six years ago last week

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



I used to sign up for all the social sites as soon as they opened

6degrees
myspace
friendster
orkut
etc

stopped sometime before Twitter came around tho

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

Carthag Tuek posted:

I used to sign up for all the social sites as soon as they opened

6degrees
myspace
friendster
orkut
etc

stopped sometime before Twitter came around tho

heh heh orkut :finland:

President Beep
Apr 30, 2009





i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)
anyone here do bebo?

in a well actually
Jan 26, 2011

dude, you gotta end it on the rhyme

bebo deez nutz

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
myfacebehi

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
I think I was on xanga dot com briefly

President Beep
Apr 30, 2009





i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)
fountains of WAYN

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

I was on Irc and Mirc.

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



3D Megadoodoo posted:

heh heh orkut :finland:

is orkut still big in Brazil?

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

(Only Finnish kids will get this.)

Pierre Chaton
Sep 1, 2006

Winty posted:

i was thinking about that brief period when hardware accelerated window managers were popular... wobbly windows, the rotating 3D cube workspaces, unnecessary transparency, etc

i spent loving ages getting compiz working, then i think less than a minute to conclude 'oh, this is actually terrible to use' and disabling it

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
oh god compiz

when I was a meganerd still, I set up a friend's netbook with some kinda linux and compiz, we thought it looked cool but I fear I consigned him to a fate worse than death

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

My IRC-galleria login still works :popeye: so I almost posted a pic of myself from 2007.

e: also there's porn on the front page now lmao

President Beep
Apr 30, 2009





i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)
speaking of things that look cool, i see that rainmeter is still around.

blink polyfill
Feb 29, 2020

hans reiser's parole appeal

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Hans-Reiser-Locked-Up-No-Parole

As he wasn't well received in the Linux kernel community even before his arrest and conviction and now obviously further distanced from all Linux stakeholders from his heinous crime, it would be difficult to see him getting back involved in Linux development when he does end up being released.

lol rough

Cybernetic Vermin
Apr 18, 2005

yeah, a real weird perspective bringing up the effect his long premeditated and brutal murder of his wife had on his software, and his standing in the software community. either way, parole denied and he wont be out until 2023.

e: down the thread someone is comparing the loss of reisers work to the world to the persecution and suicide of alan turing.

Cybernetic Vermin fucked around with this message at 12:31 on Jan 3, 2021

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

I was on firefly.com in 1996-97. they had a good music recommendation system and forums and were really ahead of their time as a social network. then they tried to write new code to replace their old /cgi-bin based site and the site got too slow to use and everyone left and then Microsoft bought them.

remember Microsoft Passport? that was a remnant from purchasing firefly.com

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored



Carthag Tuek posted:

I used to sign up for all the social sites as soon as they opened

6degrees
myspace
friendster
orkut
etc

stopped sometime before Twitter came around tho

whoa, big same but it was instagram for me. i would have been even earlier for twitter but i was already waning then

git apologist
Jun 4, 2003

my posting career started here https://dogsonacid.com/

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



[ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

Gentle Autist posted:

my posting career started here https://dogsonacid.com/

hell yeah still got my account there

Fuzzy Mammal
Aug 15, 2001

Lipstick Apathy
i think mine started in the myth:tfl chatrooms & clan forums. emoticons, flaming, trolling, camaraderie. definitely a good place to come up

Achmed Jones
Oct 16, 2004



i started posting on some bulletin board about pets. then the offtopic board for the star wars ccg, which had been taken over by roleplayers

dang i hadn't thought about that in forever

klosterdev
Oct 10, 2006

Na na na na na na na na Batman!
I started on gamefaqs.com

Also, gamefaqs.com lmao text-based guides with the dumb ASCII art on top

MononcQc
May 29, 2007

my posting career started on some forum for a Quebec music band where I wanted my post count to go up up up and I made all my mistakes there before someone drunk paid me an SA account

Beve Stuscemi
Jun 6, 2001




I literally don’t remember posting anywhere before SA outside of IRC/ICQ/AOL honestly

jre
Sep 2, 2011

To the cloud ?



:shepicide: slashdot

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

Rauma Mailbox RAMBO. C64, rented Nokia modem, and SYPTERM (you got a free terminal program from SYP, a bank, as a move to encourage on-line banking, so loving everyone used SYPTERM).

On the internet? Rec.art.comics or something like that.

Achmed Jones
Oct 16, 2004



klosterdev posted:

I started on gamefaqs.com

Also, gamefaqs.com lmao text-based guides with the dumb ASCII art on top

i really miss gamefaqs style guides to be honest. these days most everything a video with a bunch of ads and stupid voiceovers and it's impossible to find the actual bit you care about. i just want to go to the section for "level seven" and read what i'm supposed to do. dont get me wrong, text with ample screenshots is way better than text alone, but i'll take text-only with sick ascii art over lovely videos any day

Achmed Jones
Oct 16, 2004



lmao i posted on hacking and phreaking newsgroups a lot in high school

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3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

On the WWW, probably the Mobygames forums. I read the free SA forums for like a decade before registering because I saw the "we banned a guy for using WebTV" thing and thought that giving 10$ to any shitheads who thought that was funny (real or not) was a waste. The I got really bored one night and registered.

3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Jan 4, 2021

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