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klosterdev posted:Microsoft Silverlight Adobe/Apache flex specifically the time someone at work told me that 'it's the future because we don't need to code complex UIs anymore"
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:Adobe/Apache flex It’s true everything is a chat bot these days.
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FMguru posted:LMAO Achmed Jones posted:see you went too far. it's the difference between someone slipping and falling, and someone slipping, falling, and never getting up. welcome to my hell circa 2017
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klosterdev posted:Microsoft Silverlight wasn’t netflix silverlight only at first?
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:Adobe/Apache flex and adobe air right? there was some weird period where every app and web app was either air or silverlight. the electron of its day I guess but vastly worse
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rim built its playbook tablet around using adobe air as the development environment adobe cancelled air the same week the playbook shipped lmao
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tk posted:It’s true everything is a chat bot these days. lol don't even
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I swear I've seen "innovation" teams trumpeting their amazing chatbot that's going to be so "transformational" and all it requires is you to find it in our godawful electron based chat platform and then decode what is basically pseudo SQL syntax to ask a question and get the answer "idk maybe"
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Gentle Autist posted:wasn’t netflix silverlight only at first? Yes, and in the UK Sky's streaming service was still Silverlight based for years after it was EOL.
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:I swear I've seen "innovation" teams trumpeting their amazing chatbot that's going to be so "transformational" and all it requires is you to find it in our godawful electron based chat platform and then decode what is basically pseudo SQL syntax to ask a question and get the answer "idk maybe" this is probably amazon lex behind the scenes. it’s basically the equivalent of a web form backed by a db. conversational interfaces are hard to do well, but very easy to fart out quickly using the lex tool chain they can get a lot better quite quickly if you have a good team reviewing the data and iterating on the flows but not that many people get that far
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Gentle Autist posted:wasn’t netflix silverlight only at first? drat, I remember this
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:Adobe/Apache flex My first internship gig was writing a flex tool! I thought it was so badass. (~2009 maybe?)
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Quibi This poo poo was last year what the hell.
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Gentle Autist posted:wasn’t netflix silverlight only at first? yeah because the web didn't support drm at the time
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tk posted:Quibi
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Sweevo posted:Macromedia Authorware this looks cool, like some win 3.1-era labVIEW thing skinned in win98. who used it
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Hed posted:this looks cool, like some win 3.1-era labVIEW thing skinned in win98. who used it macromedia authors
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Hed posted:this looks cool, like some win 3.1-era labVIEW thing skinned in win98. who used it people who wanted to make slightly janky little presentations that looked like menus from mid-90s cd-rom encyclodaedias. i remember it being not too bad for small things
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https://twitter.com/IzzzyzzzArt/status/1438299561517203456
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tk posted:Quibi lmao
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you could only send things to abu dhabi though
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All 90s websites had a link to something like “party central” on them it really was a more festive time
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i remember my first hotmail password was only 4 alpha characters, in like 1997
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I was drunk one night in college and decided that was a good time to change my excite.com mail password. anyway that’s the story of how I signed up for my first gmail account the next day.
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ah, the days of websites telling your browser to not save your password and it obeying the website instead of you an extension to override that was always the first thing i would install
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gamespy
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anyone looking for a sweet desktop? endeffect is still around![]()
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Progressive JPEG posted:anyone looking for a sweet desktop? endeffect is still around digitalblasphemy and also the ubiquitous background from it ![]() e: whoah it is kind of famous quote:Probably my most famous piece. I initially created the mushrooms using Inspire3D (an introductory version of Lightwave) and did a render using Bryce. When I purchased Lightwave 6 I did a second render using only Lightwave and this is the result. It was really just meant to be an exercise in using gradients to control luminosity and transparency ending up becoming an icon. Funny world!
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:digitalblasphemy and also the ubiquitous background from it
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zip disks and zip drives with 100 failure rate
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windows 10
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:zip disks and zip drives with 100 failure rate over 100% failure rate if you consider that the click of death was viral lol
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the click of death was something different from the damaged disk thing, and both were rare yet everybody claims it happened to them a bigger fault with zip was that it was slow as poo poo and didn't really like reading disks in anything other than the drive they were written with
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I can remember ever so ssssssslllllooooooowwwwwwllllyyyyyyy copying MP3's to a zip disk over parallel I liked zip disks and for me they were pretty reliable. I really liked them when I got the IDE model drive, and I had big hopes for the 250MB and 1GB varieties, but alas.......
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in high school i put napster on a zip disk and used my school's t1 line to download some music. I would show to class early and real quick use the computer in the back and turn off the monitor. Just pop the disk when done and bam, like 5 songs right there.
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best thing about parallel zip drives was that they were actually scsi drives with a scsi <-> parallel bridge jammed in there. lmao
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Fart Sandwiches posted:in high school i put napster on a zip disk and used my school's t1 line to download some music. I would show to class early and real quick use the computer in the back and turn off the monitor. Just pop the disk when done and bam, like 5 songs right there. I remember a substitute teacher in our computer class (6th grade?) got excited when she discovered the school had a T1 line and then showed us how to download songs from Napster to try and be cool with us. We already knew Napster and we’re groaning when she searched for Pearl Jam. But then we saw T1 in action. The thing that blew our minds was she was downloading a whole album at once and it was almost half done by the end of class. Man, downloading times are something that is hard to explain.
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Sweevo posted:the click of death was something different from the damaged disk thing, and both were rare yet everybody claims it happened to them it felt like tasting the future when i got a 32mb cf card for a camera and started using it for project files instead of redundant zip disks
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12x download time to play time ratio on dialup, iirc? for 128k mp3s
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Jonny 290 posted:12x download time to play time ratio on dialup, iirc? for 128k mp3s Yeah that sounds right. Remember that first time you loaded up your web browser after going from dial-up to broadband, and websites just... loaded?
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