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Digg and del.icio.us How about Technorati
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everything2.com
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Jun 18, 2021 22:41
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the company http2 which depended on your browser automatically adding the .com so their server would direct you to wherever the rest of the url was for i forget what their deal was, tlds that didn't exist yet i think
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Jun 19, 2021 00:10
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the fact that .co is a thing
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Jun 19, 2021 09:53
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.biz
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Jun 19, 2021 10:08
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stavvy
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Jun 19, 2021 12:01
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.nu domains from Niue were super popular in Scandinavia ca 2000 (means .now) they've been considered tacky for a good while now tho
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Jun 19, 2021 12:31
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linode
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Jun 19, 2021 12:36
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when MSN was 'The Microsoft Network' and it was a sort of curated not-quite-the-web thing that you accessed via windows explorer. MS memory-holed it within like a year and pretended MSN was just a website
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Jun 19, 2021 14:35
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Sweevo posted:when MSN was 'The Microsoft Network' and it was a sort of curated not-quite-the-web thing that you accessed via windows explorer. an AOL analogue always skating to where the puck is
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Jun 19, 2021 14:42
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just remembered that in france we had infonie, a lovely aol clone created by infogrames it also had its little walled garden internet Zlodo fucked around with this message at 14:56 on Jun 19, 2021 |
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Jun 19, 2021 14:53
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Honestly just everything about Windows 95 through XP where they tried to cram web pages everywhere and make every program have a web browser paradigm
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Jun 19, 2021 15:12
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your desktop background just sometimes being replaced by an error message that internet explorer had crashed, because that was responsible for your desktop background for some reason
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Jun 19, 2021 15:26
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Jabor posted:your desktop background just sometimes being replaced by an error message that internet explorer had crashed, because that was responsible for your desktop background for some reason oh yeah, active desktop?
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Jun 19, 2021 15:37
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Carthag Tuek posted:.nu domains from Niue were super popular in Scandinavia ca 2000 (means .now) you mean sweden
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Jun 19, 2021 15:48
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Jabor posted:your desktop background just sometimes being replaced by an error message that internet explorer had crashed, because that was responsible for your desktop background for some reason the "reason" was to support Microsoft's insistence that internet explorer isn't merely a web browser, but an *~integral component~* of the Windows operating system.  similarly, there was a period of time when printing out an html-formatted email in outlook also unnecessarily involved internet explorer.
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Jun 19, 2021 15:52
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Jabor posted:your desktop background just sometimes being replaced by an error message that internet explorer had crashed, because that was responsible for your desktop background for some reason hmblol I remember this happening all the time on my sister's college laptop that ran  windows me
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Jun 19, 2021 18:39
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Tankakern posted:you mean sweden correct, sweden is in scandinavia 
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Jun 19, 2021 18:42
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RobobTheGreat posted:the "reason" was to support Microsoft's insistence that internet explorer isn't merely a web browser, but an *~integral component~* of the Windows operating system. and history proved microsoft right, in that no one have been able to even pretend to ship an operating system without a webview component for a decade+ by now.
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Jun 19, 2021 18:43
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:and history proved microsoft right, in that no one have been able to even pretend to ship an operating system without a webview component for a decade+ by now. Windows is a distro that calls itself an operating system
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Jun 19, 2021 19:17
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nah, distros being a concept is clearly linux being weird about things. everyone else, including historic unix vendors, ship(ped) operating systems as a reasonable set of standard functionality and applications.
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Jun 19, 2021 19:23
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"i don't like the version of termcap you used, so i'm gonna make my own distro" repeat x10,000
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Jun 19, 2021 19:33
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deb & ian are divorced
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Jun 19, 2021 20:50
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Carthag Tuek posted:deb & ian are divorced and that’s not the worst thing to happen to ian
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Jun 19, 2021 20:53
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PCjr sidecar posted:and that’s not the worst thing to happen to ian welp i did not know that
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Jun 19, 2021 21:00
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sad tech poo poo you just heard about v2.1
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Jun 19, 2021 21:01
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PCjr sidecar posted:and that’s not the worst thing to happen to ian I get the first part about debian, but not this part, what am I missing
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Jun 19, 2021 21:29
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Volmarias posted:I get the first part about debian, but not this part, what am I missing google broken huh? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Murdock#Death
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Jun 19, 2021 21:37
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:google broken huh? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Murdock#Death I didn't realize debian was named after himself and his girlfriend at the time, I just assumed it was something like an antarctic island penguins go to die or some other nerd related thing. I must atone for my sins of not making the connection that "Debian" = "Deb + Ian" and it wasn't just dumb shitposting
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Jun 19, 2021 23:27
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Volmarias posted:I didn't realize debian was named after himself and his girlfriend at the time, I just assumed it was something like an antarctic island penguins go to die or some other nerd related thing. i just learned it here myself, don't feel too bad! 
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Jun 19, 2021 23:44
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Feisty-Cadaver posted:that T9 typing competition where the finalists were like a 12 year old girl and 30-something year old dude. wasn't there a competition between a teen on T9 and some old dude on morse code?
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Jun 20, 2021 00:48
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Also just finding out debian was a cobination of "deb" and "ian"
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Jun 20, 2021 03:43
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ADINSX posted:Also just finding out debian was a cobination of "deb" and "ian"
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Jun 20, 2021 04:08
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ADINSX posted:Also just finding out debian was a cobination of "deb" and "ian"
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Jun 20, 2021 04:13
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active desktop was cool because i had a desktop that would show a parking lot is full comic and had a button to show a different one 2000 was a hell of a year
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Jun 20, 2021 04:26
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fun fact: we used to use active desktop on our terminal server farm as an application launcher. it worked great and it was disappointing when it was removed for later releases
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Jun 20, 2021 05:22
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:wasn't there a competition between a teen on T9 and some old dude on morse code? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRuRE-Bwk1U yep
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Jun 20, 2021 07:26
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Volmarias posted:The commercials that Comcast did when Verizon started rolling out FTTP, that said "DON'T FALL FOR don’t get scroogled!
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Jun 20, 2021 07:30
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Wild EEPROM posted:the fact that .co is a thing a friend of mine had a coworker who just this week deleted a good chunk of their subscriber emails because he wrote a script to delete accounts with fake or mistyped emails and didn’t make it recognize/handle any .co.<whatever> tlds
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3d tvs no wait curved tvs how about hdr tvs??? basically the endless attempts at tv gimmicks that die off in a year after hitting the chicken/egg adoption wall oh and having multiple incompatible versions of each of them whenever an encoding is involved, further reducing addressable market
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