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Powered Descent posted:The Linux world is still experimenting with UI, at least a little. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment Gnome 3 is nice in that you can do almost everything by pressing the win key and typing a few letters. Merging task switching, app launch and settings search sounds messy, but it does work fairly well. Windows is sort of similar in how win + typing can launch programs and search settings, of course. Personal annoyance: people who click the start menu, click the search field, and then start typing.
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Computer viking posted:Gnome 3 is nice in that you can do almost everything by pressing the win key and typing a few letters. Merging task switching, app launch and settings search sounds messy, but it does work fairly well. Windows is sort of similar in how win + typing can launch programs and search settings, of course. "Now press start, and type Foo" "Type it where" "Just do it"
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Apr 29, 2021 10:33
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SuSe had a KDE desktop in the mid 90s thats still my favorite os environment, it was real good.
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Mid/late-90s was KDE 1.0, and yes it was quite nice. I still love that style of icons.
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Apr 29, 2021 13:23
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Humphreys posted:"Now press start, and type Foo" Ten seconds later: "Ok, now press start and type Bar" *clicks start button, looks for a text field to click to type in*
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Apr 29, 2021 13:29
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Computer viking posted:Ten seconds later: "Ok, now press start and type Bar" "BUT WHERE DID FOO GO!?!?"
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Apr 29, 2021 13:53
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Apr 29, 2021 14:11
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Apr 29, 2021 14:13
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Guy Axlerod posted:Forward or Backward slash?? "Forward" *types a backslash*
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Apr 29, 2021 14:16
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Data Graham posted:"Forward" "But it slopes forward!"
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Apr 29, 2021 14:17
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I'll never forget a radio ad I heard in like 1996, when companies were just starting to put things online and website URLs were often long and weird and had ~usernames in them. But that didn't stop this one company from hiring a guy with a deep booming sonorous voice and a long, slow, dignified delivery to do their ad and to recite the URL, which went like this: AITCH TEE, TEE PEE ... SEMICOLON, BACKSLASH, BACKSLASH ... DOUBLE YOU DOUBLE YOU DOUBLE YOU, Just getting that far took up like 15 seconds and I wanted to drive off the road and into a tree to make it stop aahjsdghjhjldshfsd;
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Data Graham posted:I'll never forget a radio ad I heard in like 1996, when companies were just starting to put things online and website URLs were often long and weird and had ~usernames in them. But that didn't stop this one company from hiring a guy with a deep booming sonorous voice and a long, slow, dignified delivery to do their ad and to recite the URL, which went like this: In the early days of the dotcom boom a local car dealer had a radio advert that started and ended with someone yelling the word "INTERNET!" just to get people's attention. "INTERNET!... come down to Butthole Ford. buy a new Fiesta from 6995, a new Focus from 7995, a new Mondeo from 8995. Butthole Ford... INTERNET!"
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Apr 29, 2021 15:07
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Remember when morning news shows were just the hosts talking about what they had thought they had heard was the way to pronounce or what to call tech terms? "It's called an at symbol" "I heard it was called about"
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Apr 29, 2021 15:12
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I miss it when @ was first called here "kissanhäntä" or "a cat's tail" which quickly turned into "miukumauku" or simply "meow meow". Haven't heard anyone use that in a while.
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Apr 29, 2021 15:30
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Data Graham posted:I'll never forget a radio ad I heard in like 1996, when companies were just starting to put things online and website URLs were often long and weird and had ~usernames in them. But that didn't stop this one company from hiring a guy with a deep booming sonorous voice and a long, slow, dignified delivery to do their ad and to recite the URL, which went like this: The URLs have gotten shorter but there are still ads that call a slash a backslash. "Visit company dot com backslash thingy for details." That's not a backslash how have ad companies not figured this out in 25 freaking years aahjsdghjhjldshfsd;
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barbecue at the folks posted:I miss it when @ was first called here "kissanhäntä" or "a cat's tail" which quickly turned into "miukumauku" or simply "meow meow". Haven't heard anyone use that in a while. My dad still calls them that whenever he's spelling out his email address to someone. There's about a fifty to fifty chance on whether or not whoever he's talking to gets confused or not. That said, # will forever be "risuaita", dammit. Screw this "hashtag" bullshit. 
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Apr 29, 2021 17:00
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in early browser days you had to type http out IIRC
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Ruflux posted:My dad still calls them that whenever he's spelling out his email address to someone. There's about a fifty to fifty chance on whether or not whoever he's talking to gets confused or not. That said, # will forever be "risuaita", dammit. Screw this "hashtag" bullshit. #butts < "Hashtag butts" # < "Hash" butts < "butts" which is a tag To me it's the pound sign, or number sign.
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Apr 29, 2021 17:21
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Octothorpe
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Guy Axlerod posted:#butts < "Hashtag butts" So you'd say "pound butts"?
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Apr 29, 2021 17:33
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My boss says backslash instead of slash all the loving time. It's a web design company
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Apr 29, 2021 17:39
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I'm gonna start calling them up slashes and down slashes.
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Apr 29, 2021 17:42
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Trabant posted:So you'd say "pound butts"? I think Guy Axelrod would say "hashtag butts" and "when it's not part of a hashtag, the pound sign is often read 'hash'".
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Guy Axlerod posted:#butts < "Hashtag butts" 
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Trabant posted:So you'd say "pound butts"? dirby posted:I think Guy Axelrod would say "hashtag butts" and "when it's not part of a hashtag, the pound sign is often read 'hash'". I mean yes, but also I'd use whatever is more fun.
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Last Chance posted:in early browser days you had to type http out IIRC This is true because browsers were also capable of other protocols like FTP, Gopher, NNTP, stuff like that, so it wasn’t necessarily obvious that when you typed lycos.com, you wanted to make an http connection Nowadays all that stuff is either gone, or relegated to specialized apps that handle it
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:This is true because browsers were also capable of other protocols like FTP, Gopher, NNTP, stuff like that, so it wasn’t necessarily obvious that when you typed lycos.com, you wanted to make an http connection Actually it was whenever I last ordered something from my Telnet connection to CDConnection.com or last typed in my e-mail address as my password on an FTP site
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I remember once Newsweek had a sidebar of all the esoteric tech terms in use at the time on The Internet (you know you're dealing with a super cool hacker kid if his email has a .net domain), and it listed "anonymous FTP" as though it were some kind of nefarious black-hat way of sneaking onto a site and getting illicit downloads
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Data Graham posted:I remember once Newsweek had a sidebar of all the esoteric tech terms in use at the time on The Internet https://i.imgur.com/aFpfv9b.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/okz6Djd.mp4
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 Still can't believe that "spreadsheets" lasted so long as a watchword for "computer nerds", even making it into Weird Al's pentiums songIt's like making fun of traveling salesmen for being really into cars
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I've never played Eve Online so I don't know about them.
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barbecue at the folks posted:I miss it when @ was first called here "kissanhäntä" or "a cat's tail" which quickly turned into "miukumauku" or simply "meow meow". Haven't heard anyone use that in a while. I trolled one of my teachers back in the day that @ wasn't 'at' but stood for 'a-round'. Explained my email address like "Hey my name is humphreys which hangs around Dingus School in the Educational district in Australia" (humphreys@dingus.edu.au) Gromit posted:I've never played Eve Online so I don't know about them. It's very good if you are a goon, so good news!
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:This is true because browsers were also capable of other protocols like FTP, Gopher, NNTP, stuff like that, so it wasn’t necessarily obvious that when you typed lycos.com, you wanted to make an http connection I use Konqueror sometimes for FTP, but that's not a regular mainstream browser.
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Apr 30, 2021 08:41
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So I may have bought a bunch of token ring NICs... (so cheap!) Should be fun to play around with at least.
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barbecue at the folks posted:I miss it when @ was first called here "kissanhäntä" or "a cat's tail" which quickly turned into "miukumauku" or simply "meow meow". Haven't heard anyone use that in a while. Greybeards called it atta which, linguistically, makes some sense.
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Every teacher at my primary school thought it was "the mouse symbol" and during the period of breathless cyber optimism immediately following the brand new school network coming online I heard so many instances of "and you can email me now!!! My address is john smith Mouse schoolmame full stop co full stop UK"
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Trabant posted:So you'd say "pound butts"? vvv there's a bit in Devin Townsend's podcast series where he talks about getting to hang out with FF around when they were beginning to blow up and telling them "you guys are doing this music that's all black and blue, and I want to do the same kinda thing except it's black and red," and imo he delivered on that ambition 100%. Pretty good has a new favorite as of 11:19 on Apr 30, 2021 |
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I used to LOVE Fear Factory and somehow missed the train to Strapping Young Lad
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