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You guys, I went to the Deutsche Museum in Munich Germany a couple days ago. They have so much cool old stuff. I tried to grab pictures of the explanations when they were in English but I didn't get everything. Hopefully that doesn't detract from all the neat pictures. Here are some previews. They have an Enigma Machine!   https://goo.gl/photos/ncS5MUWt5HpQSHoM7 Phone posted so if those pictures are too big or the album doesn't work please let me know.
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Dial up Warcraft 2 and Blood with my friend across the back alley. We'd shout to each other from our porches then yell "don't pick up the phone!" to our moms. We contemplated getting walkie talkies from Radio Shack but settled on in game text, then each eventually got a second phone line.
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Mar 22, 2017 07:34
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Trabant posted:Oh god, the memories! Especially of a 2-player map that was just two long and narrow parallel hallways strewn with weapons, connected at each end to form a loop. My best friend from high school and I tried it sight unseen and it was the most hilarious 30 minutes we've ever played. It was the soccer pitch for us, kicking zombie heads around and trying to score goals.
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Mar 22, 2017 16:30
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There is something deeply disturbing about that red when the pen opens.
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Jun 29, 2017 00:40
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sebmojo posted:so trip report, i ended up DIing into the PA and it sounded good, there was a bit of feedback but it was the good sort. Didn't record the gig b/c I'm a buffoon, but here's a jam i did a couple of weeks before that should give you the idea. The opening few minutes of this are like the soundtrack to an arthouse flick about technologically advanced vikings fighting off aliens or something. Long sweeping shots of cold snowy landscapes, maybe a bear walks by in the mid distance, then Mads Mikkelsen in frame stage left, dressed like his character from Valhalla Rising. All this to say I like it.
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Oct 11, 2017 17:20
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Platystemon posted:I want one of these, but displaying in hertz—every digit. Nixie tubes. Probably wouldn't be too hard to wire up with a Raspberry Pi. Or cannibalize one of those existing displays that goes in the 5.25" bay on the front. There's a rapidly going obsolete thing. The last case I bought doesn't even have 5.25" or 3.5" bays. I haven't installed a disc drive in a PC in years.
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Jan 7, 2018 23:10
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GotLag posted:Neal Stephenson's books are the obsolete and failed technology. I wanted to move to Fiji (?) so bad when I was 16 and reading Cryptonomicon. That and Soul of a New Machine got me into IT as a career.
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Jan 15, 2018 02:33
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Konstantin posted:It's not a perfect port, Homestar Runner videos had interactive easter eggs that can't be reproduced on YouTube. I'd this is the price I have to pay for a world free of Flash, I pay it gladly. Blood for the Blood God.
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Feb 7, 2018 08:24
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I used the Star Trek TNG sounds for a lot of things. Nice simple little beeps and such. Ended up checking my phone a LOT when I was rewatching the series a few months back.
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Feb 8, 2018 19:04
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Vic posted:A bunch of boring people pulling out their phones and playing their ringtone for each other waiting for hi fives is obsolete and failed technology. Forums are obsolete technology. Now it's all about time limited encrypted point to point communication with full video, audio, and stickers. I don't understand the youth of today. How do you have conversations in 6 second video clips?
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Feb 8, 2018 23:11
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Close to my naming scheme; I use World War II operational names. Still in the house I have Overlord (main PC), Avalanche (Current laptop), Fortitude (Hackintosh, naturally) Barbarossa, Torch, Coronet, and the Wifi network is Eagle. Would you call an experimental but ultimately doomed router "Market Garden"?
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Mar 20, 2018 06:58
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JacquelineDempsey posted:
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Mar 20, 2018 22:29
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Horace posted:Yeah, the four litre. Beautiful engine. My first car was a 1987 Chevy Celebrity. Came in "runny poo" brown, with a slightly darker brown bench interior. I put a 1200 Watt Rockford Fosgate amp in it, to drive a pair of 12" subs. Ran a smaller multichannel amp for the 6x9s and tweeters. Had one of those ridiculous CD players with a removeable faceplate and 900 loving lights and options. If I turned it up past like, 12 (of 50) my headlights would dim in time with the beat. Is that still a thing, auto stereos? Like with bluetooth and streaming is there still a need for that poo poo? I guess like, teenagers. We used to call the stickers that came with audio equipment "Steal Me" stickers.
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Aug 16, 2018 01:54
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Ditto, but Switch and new Doom. It was uncomfortable.
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Oct 27, 2018 08:46
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I'm going to see the Backstreet Boys concert next summer. I got sent an email that was like "Hey, you get a free copy of the new album for each ticket you bought, click here". So I did, thinking it'll be a download code or something. Nope, they're sending me 4 physical CDs. I don't think I have a way to play CDs any more. No DVD/Bluray player in the house, haven't had a disc drive in my PC for years, laptop doesn't have one, car has just Bluetooth and Aux In. What the hell am I supposed to do with a CD?
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Nov 16, 2018 16:30
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I used to drive around with a Frankenbox laptop and a lovely homebuilt antenna, doing Wardriving and marking open wifi locations on a paper map, and with chalk on the sidewalk. Those were the days, stacks of 2600 magazine in the car, Code Red by the Liter, Aircrack-NG running constantly. Wasted youth. Do people still run custom firmware on routers? I remember banging my head against Tomato and DD-WRT for hours, constantly flashing that poor old WRT54G with poo poo for essentially no reason.
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Aug 8, 2019 22:30
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Scorpion or $c0rP10N or whatever wasn't that long ago and it aged like milk. The first episode (the only one I've seen) had a disk located in a SAN based on the height of the DC manager, car stereo door speakers being too loud and magnetically wiping a hard drive, and a god damned jet engine dropping a networking cable out of the wheel well, while in flight, so a car racing down the runway under the plane could connect up and upload new flight control data.
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Sep 25, 2019 03:29
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I had a cyrix 686 100 when I was 12/13. It met my purposes fine - Commander Keen, Crystal Caves, Carmen Sandiego. We got cable internet when I was 15, and a new Win98 Gateway, just before they dropped the '2000' from the name. Literally the reason dad picked that one was because my mom liked cows and thought the box was cute. Blew my mind. No more download manager for all night mp3s! 333mhz! I can play videogames without stuttering! Those were halcyon days, friends.
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Feb 1, 2020 08:05
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I took a Dremel to one of the blanks on the back of the case and fed a SATA and power through that. Now I just use one of those USB 3 cabinets. It's lost some of the charm but made up for it in convenience.
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May 2, 2020 17:59
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Toast Museum posted:DBAN is obsolete technology. A full format in Windows zeroes out the drive. Multiple passes haven't been necessary for a long time. Sure but DBAN still feels more like, official. The drill press is the meal "I'm done with this drive entirely" though.
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May 3, 2020 23:57
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Wasabi the J posted:LOOK AT THIS PORNOGRAPH blatman posted:in most cases you would be right but this is erotic bar graphs LOOK AT THIS (EROTIC BAR) GRAPH! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIlNIVXpIns
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May 6, 2020 05:40
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I keep threatening to go get a 1500W mono amp and some 12" subwoofers installed in the civic. Throw a fancy rear end light system in there, maybe a 4x 150W amp for the 6x9s in the back. That was all the rage in high school back in 1998-2001. Can't have lovely numetal banging without the giant overpriced flashy loving Rockford Fosgate and poo poo.
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Jul 10, 2020 16:00
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The only alarm song you'll ever need https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jlngD3OIXc
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I still use ZOMBO.COM to check my internet is working. Anything is possible, at ZOMBO.COM Flash will go away in a couple months and then what will I do?
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