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Jim Silly-Balls posted:yeah I remember the OG BitTorrent client and it’s little single gray window. it was so janky but the technology was mindblowing at the time. I think it was Shadow's BitTornado. I only remember this because I went to my friend's house like 3 years ago and he asked me why his torrents weren't working and I saw he was still using it and I burst out laughing. 
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Jan 13, 2021 05:52
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i was thinking about the client made by the dude who invented bittorrent
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i worked for a guy once that had been an exec or something at realnetworks, he managed to convince a telecom to let him run a small software group one of the dumbest, worst-dressed (zipoff cargo pants in his late 50s), screams-at-other-people-for-problems-he'd-created dumbasses i've ever met fortunately HP gave him a job managing kubernetes jockeys. truly the sky is the limit in the computer biz
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Jan 13, 2021 05:56
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greg the peanut posted:Was realplayer funny or sad? or both?!? funny when you thought about it sad when you used it Jonny 290 posted:realplayer would have been fine if we had any sort of decent internet at all in the us its true, it certainly would have faired better with stable connections or modestly consistent speeds. I'm trying to imagine youtube trying to be a thing at the time realplayer was around and i think we'd be cracking jokes about buffering red circles and green blotchy red and white play buttons
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Jan 13, 2021 06:18
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eschaton posted:I remember seeing RFCs for these things called hypertext transfer protocol and hypertext markup language, reading through them, and being surprised that HTTP didn’t correct the glaring design flaw in FTP of not standardizing directory listing formats u should have submitted a comment to their request imo
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Jan 13, 2021 16:30
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i paid a subscription to fileplanet so I could get game patches “early” and not have to wait in a queue to download. I also got beta access to planetside which ruled
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Jan 13, 2021 16:48
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Jonny 290 posted:astalavista.box.sk what was this again
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Jan 13, 2021 18:15
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Gentle Autist posted:what was this again you have a web browser, right?
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Jan 13, 2021 18:19
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Gentle Autist posted:what was this again cracks, keygens and serials. They had the banner ad of that attractive lady in the red vinyl dress. 
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Jan 13, 2021 18:26
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aria giovanni I once knew a dude called giovanni. funny name. always said it spicy meatball style
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for a while i was considering namechanging to what would have been my italian middle name and our pre-emigration last name, and i would end up Giovanni Barzini aka giovanni 290
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Jan 13, 2021 18:50
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Jonny 290 posted:for a while i was considering namechanging to what would have been my italian middle name and our pre-emigration last name, and i would end up Giovanni Barzini
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Jonny 290 posted:astalavista.box.sk
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echinopsis posted:aria giovanni apparently dr. giovanni now and happily doing research. very cool astalavista was a rare breed then. a working search engine with useful results so also rare now
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Jan 14, 2021 00:06
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remember fosi
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Agile Vector posted:apparently dr. giovanni now and happily doing research. very cool good for her! quote:astalavista was a rare breed then. a working search engine with useful results i remember av always giving a bunch of porn links on innocent stuff even in the mid 90s, though i guess it was still better than anything else at the time.
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Jan 14, 2021 00:44
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remember when google actually returned relevant stuff instead of ancient results that haven't been updated in years
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Jan 14, 2021 00:51
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are the results incorrect now or just old? there are an awful lot of people who conflate “hasn’t been changed recently” with “is obsolete”
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i do remember when you could view cached versions of some websites
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beavis: how do I do foo in lisp? lisp community: have you tried the open source cl-foo package? butt-head: but that hasn’t been updated since 2013!!!!
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eschaton posted:beavis: how do I do foo in lisp? did you ever figure out how to do it?
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Agile Vector posted:apparently dr. giovanni now and happily doing research. very cool lmao you're confusing altavista (search engine) and astalavista (  )altavista loving owned though, search engines are all trash now
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Google killed all the other search engines so now they're just content to let it deteriorate and ad more and more intrusive and deceptive advertising. It's too much effort and not profitable enough to make another good search engine so there probably will never be a decent search engine ever again. It's really dumb. I hate reddit but in 2021 I use google purely as a reddit search engine because adding "reddit" is the only way to get any kind of non-advertising site from google.
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Jan 14, 2021 01:21
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the present state of the internet by and large loving blows
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President Beep posted:i do remember when you could view cached versions of some websites remember when we had like ten glorious years of being able to right-click -> Copy Image URL... straight out of google image search and then Getty Images pissed their diapers and made Google break it
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Jan 14, 2021 01:28
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Jonny 290 posted:remember when we had like ten glorious years of being able to right-click -> Copy Image URL... straight out of google image search and then Getty Images pissed their diapers and made Google break it yes, I absolutely do. 
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Jan 14, 2021 01:33
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the powerful getty family continues their cutthroat tactics. smdh.
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SO DEMANDING posted:lmao you're confusing altavista (search engine) and astalavista ( yeah, thats it  I recall trying to before someone pointed me to astalavista was a tedious gamble. it started to decline but for a few years it felt like it was the place to goat the time i did use altavista. it was my go to search engine until someone showed me google and i slowly forgot how to write db-esque search queries
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Jan 14, 2021 01:34
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Jonny 290 posted:remember when we had like ten glorious years of being able to right-click -> Copy Image URL... straight out of google image search and then Getty Images pissed their diapers and made Google break it it still works on images that aren't huge if you click the thumbnail and wait a second for the full-size image to load inline
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Jonny 290 posted:remember when we had like ten glorious years of being able to right-click -> Copy Image URL... straight out of google image search and then Getty Images pissed their diapers and made Google break it still works fine on firefox
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Jonny 290 posted:remember when we had like ten glorious years of being able to right-click -> Copy Image URL... straight out of google image search and then Getty Images pissed their diapers and made Google break it Firefox still lets you do that. And there is an add-on in Chrome to bring it back.
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eschaton posted:are the results incorrect now or just old? google results? absolutely incorrect because the algaerhythm tries to second-guess what the user is looking for and always fails for stuff that isn't the most common stuff, no matter how you tweak the keywords
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it’s good at guessing horrendously bad typing errors tho
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also google used to almost always end up with wikipedia as the first entry because it’s almost always what you want to see? but it no longer does
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googles search results are so bad that instead of making you wade through 200 bad results they put the bad result as an answer right up front. also bad is how searching for how to do something will just bring up a hundred pages of youtube.
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i am forced to use ddg because of google’s evil bullshit but the results are much, much, worse
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