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Pulcinella posted:Early 2000s Korean online games. Ragnarok Online, Gundbound, Gunz: The Duel, etc. Pretty sure Gunbound was doing free-to-play with microtransactions a decade before mobile gaming ever did. i remember playing gunbound during weekly ragnarok online maintenance honestly i'd play it again, gunbound was cute n fun. i would not play rangarok online again
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post hole digger posted:we also had an enormous satellite dish (like 8-10 ft diameter) on a pole in our back yard that my dad also used for pirating TV, even though we still paid for cable. i think it was almost more about doing it than needing to do it. he was able to use it to hook me up with those crucial (mostly) descrambled ppv's during the wwf attitude era. c-band wild feeds you used to be able to grab shows when they transmitted them to the local affiliates and get the raw feeds for sporting events, news broadcasts and such. no commercials as the local stations cut them in before broadcast in the former case, and in the latter you got to listen to banter and watch people pick their nose when they were 'off air' anything interesting went digital and encrypted some time ago (seems like every satellite feed listing page stopped in 2006/2007), and what's left is the usual selection of boring shopping channels, random state tv networks, and "send me your money for Jesus" crap. apparently they aren't completely dead as there are still occasionally feeds where someone forgets to turn on encryption for an uplink or major channel feed, but it seems pretty rare, is quickly corrected, and requires fairly pricey equipment to pick up. probably would have been really cool to have access to this stuff in the 20th century when a whole lot more of this stuff was just flying around unencrypted though The_Franz fucked around with this message at 16:12 on Nov 21, 2022 |
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Captain Foo posted:o poo poo i remember gunbound
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Played the poo poo out of gunbound in the dorms. Had a sick samurai lookin guy, had to play forever to afford the costume pieces
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Beeftweeter posted:this is actually pretty amazing. it sounds like complete poo poo and always has Nah, I love it. I flip between the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s channels. But nothing past that because that's when music started to suck. 
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Presto posted:Nah, I love it. I flip between the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s channels. But nothing past that because that's when music started to suck. i'm sure the selection is expansive and with the cash they have probably decently curated, but any time anyone has played it for me it sounded worse than an aughts-era 22 khz joint stereo mp3 which may or may not be part of the charm i guess? idk. its not for me
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You should hear Nina Blackwood on the 80s channel. Sounds like she gargles road gravel.
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Presto posted:Nah, I love it. I flip between the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s channels. But nothing past that because that's when music started to suck. source your quotes
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The_Franz posted:c-band wild feeds My roommate in college had a buddy with a C-band dish, and thanks to him we would have all the big Fox Sunday night shows days early because they pushed it down to affiliates during the middle of the week another fun thing that reminds me of, tangentially: 20 years ago TiVo had promoted videos on the main landing screen, while all the units in the field only connected via dialup (it wasn’t till like 2004 that Ethernet was officially supported, and you’d need a USB dongle) I wondered how in the hell they did this until one night I fell asleep while watching TV. I woke up at like 2:45 AM to my TV showing what looked like a constantly moving barcode, then jumped to one of these promoted videos I’d seen before on the TiVo. TiVo would buy infomercial time in the wee hours of the morning on various cable networks, and they’d use it to broadcast these videos. The devices knew to tune to that infomercial, would record the video segments, and saved them for the promotional videos.
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kitten smoothie posted:My roommate in college had a buddy with a C-band dish, and thanks to him we would have all the big Fox Sunday night shows days early because they pushed it down to affiliates during the middle of the week that owns
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kitten smoothie posted:20 years ago TiVo had promoted videos on the main landing screen, while all the units in the field only connected via dialup (it wasn’t till like 2004 that Ethernet was officially supported, and you’d need a USB dongle) i think usb was supported from the get go when series 2 was released in 2002. one thing that was neat about at least the series 1 was that you could use the serial port with an external modem. my first tivo was one that had been hit by lightning, toasting the modem. hooked my housemate's external usr modem up and off we went with the lifetime sub that was attached to it.
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Presto posted:You should hear Nina Blackwood on the 80s channel. Sounds like she gargles road gravel. either that or she smokes a carton a day.
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Midjack posted:either that or she smokes a carton a day. well, it was the 80s, the last decade where you could smoke almost everywhere
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i bet your mom was smoking in the 80's
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Volmarias posted:In 2010 ish, a friend of mine was running some script he made to continuously do Bing searches, because Microsoft was paying people per search to use it. when bing was relatively new and someone realised that quite by accident MS had made "the worlds best pornography search engine" and then Google tweaked their image search because they were worried about losing market share to people using bing images to jerk it
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i remember when earlier windows would include COMMAND.COM in sys32, which i am assuming is a DOS executable for a shell that predated cmd. on school/library/almost any computer cmd would be admin-restricted but COMMAND.COM almost always wasn’t and was functional enough if you couldn’t use it to launch cmd directly (which then worked despite policies).
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kitten smoothie posted:My roommate in college had a buddy with a C-band dish, and thanks to him we would have all the big Fox Sunday night shows days early because they pushed it down to affiliates during the middle of the week this is really freakin cool thanks for sharin!
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kremlins posted:i remember when earlier windows would include COMMAND.COM in sys32, which i am assuming is a DOS executable for a shell that predated cmd. on school/library/almost any computer cmd would be admin-restricted but COMMAND.COM almost always wasn’t and was functional enough if you couldn’t use it to launch cmd directly (which then worked despite policies). command.com is the dos command interpreter yeah similarly you could replace winlogon.scr with a different executable and just wait for it to pop on. if cmd.exe or taskmgr.exe were policy restricted the workalikes from reactos or wine aren't 
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in the early 00s I used to get the latest Simpsons and Futurama eps off IRC. Sometimes they appeared there before they were aired because a release group got it off a wildfeed, a satellite feed that the network used to send stuff out to the local station a day or so before it aired. also release groups and the ’scene’ lol
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axolotl farmer posted:also release groups and the ’scene’ lol my copy of the original cowboy bebop has hard burned ads for #AnimeXtreme on some irc network over the opening sequence
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axolotl farmer posted:also release groups and the ’scene’ lol every episode coming with a readme.txt that's nothing but poo poo-talking other groups over IRC drama five people understand
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kinda miss downloading dbz eps as real media files off xdcc bots
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axolotl farmer posted:also release groups and the ’scene’ lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWQUGggaLZs
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Sweevo posted:every episode coming with a readme.txt that's nothing but poo poo-talking other groups over IRC drama five people understand groupname.nfo 
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windows xp having a system information viewer or whatever that by default had the .nfo association certainly confused me at first as a kid, but at least it gave it a better thumbnail
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Wild EEPROM posted:file.rar and then the .par verifications; NoneMoreNegative posted:lol there was a really early release of a Neil Breen movie I saw mentioned somewhere last year, but it was posted to Usenet 'incognito' with only an ID string as a filename, it wasn't picked up by any indexer so I picked up a no-poo poo Usenet reader to download and boy I'd forgotten how far we have come in ease of use for internet tools. thank the Lord for invisible automated tools for all this bullshit nowadays
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Beeftweeter posted:par files are still some dark magic wizardry meh, filesystem level raid
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i mean i get how they work, its still pretty fun to watch like "download failed at 72%" magically fix itself with like 600 mb of crap
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someone mentioned swatch internet time in the tech bauble thread and that crack-ping'd to microsoft SPOT watches they were pretty cool. afaik they used some of the spectrum from decommissioned FM radio to basically deliver an rss feed, i had a little timex AMPS beeper watch that had its own 800 number 
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timex datalink motherfucker used your crt to sync data to your watch
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Beeftweeter posted:par files are still some dark magic wizardry they really were! i also understand the concept too but regardless it was still really really cool to see a thing from theory be useful in a real life situation
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they're still SOP on usenet bc record and movie companies issue article plonks to try to break piracy on there by taking down a rar or two, but theyre too stupid to know about par files so everything still gets through
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nudgenudgetilt posted:timex datalink top tier cyberpunk  poo poo, love it
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axolotl farmer posted:also release groups and the ’scene’ lol a lovely telesync version of phantom menace with a 'Z' moving from corner to corner lol at cams and telesyncs in general. we're spoiled now with everything hitting streaming simultaneously
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