3D Megadoodoo posted:

Either Command & Conquer or Red Alert did this in the Windows version but not the DOS version (or maybe it was the other way around) which was mystifying. And yeah it looked like rear end.

The CD-ROM had both versions but still...

Unless posted:

dope music visualizers

duz posted:

always middle click all links

Carthag Tuek posted:

ever consider you dont have to store a pile of g--oh, nevermind

President Beep posted:

President Beep posted:

wtf?

DamnGlitch posted:

I remember when tineye was like holding the power of god for finding a source.

Pile Of Garbage posted:

dude probably still adds "hd=1" to the URL query params on YT

Two Beans posted:

Stardock WindowBlinds

eschaton posted:

I wonder if you could generate/discover labels that would induce errors on the disk

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

I sunk……..a LOT of hours into https://elastomania.com

Midjack posted:

psp piracy made someone at sce absolutely insane, a lot of the dumb poo poo about the vita seems to be hard counters to stuff that happened on the psp.

HELLOMYNAMEIS___ posted:

seti@home

just staring at this screen, waiting for alien buddies to show up:

Sweevo posted:

gonna hack you with tracer-t

irpoweroutlet posted:

floppy disk chat reminded me of something that happened to me in high school. I had a semester long term paper due the next day, and I probably had it 75% complete. I took home 5 copies on separate multicolor translucent floppies. this was back in the early 2000’s when the quality of floppies was going down the shitter. they had something like a 50% failure rate.

I got home that afternoon and went to finish it up, and every. single. disk. was corrupted. I had it saved on my network folder at school and it was early enough I hoped I could still get it. made it to the computer lab, and when I tried to login, I got a message that students were not permitted to login after 5pm.

I freaked the gently caress out, walked to another computer lab somehow hoping i wouldn’t get the same error message. I did. then I spotted a logged in computer in the corner.

the loving network admin had failed to logout of his account and I had access to every students network drive. got a copy of my paper on a reliable floppy, breathed a sigh of relief, and ran out the door.

in retrospect, it’s very lol, but it’s incredible how lucky I got that day

kitten smoothie posted:

Before Napster there was Scour dot net, which crawled university netblocks for open SMB shares and indexed the MP3s on them in a search engine. They also had a download manager tool that would handle queuing up downloads and handling retries when you're trying to download from a college kid who turned off their computer.

Fart Sandwiches posted:

my second year of college I took some computer class and the instructor was also the network admin (small school of 3000 peeps). he recognized my name and after the first day pulled me aside and said I accounted for about 30 percent of the entire school traffic because I was torrenting anime all day with many instance of the og BitTorrent client

I miss the old internet. it’s all boring now. or I’m just old and jaded

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

no, the old BitTorrent client, the literal first release from the creator of BitTorrent could only download one torrent at a time. so if you wanted two, you had to open another instance and set the second instance off downloading your other torrent.

that’s my foggy memory of it anyway. torrent clients that could download multiple torrents in one client didn’t come till later and were a pretty big deal

Crime on a Dime posted:

thats when you end up trying, instead of loading windsock and typing PPP into your prompt, you see if you can cd /etc and cat passwd. and when you find it is helpfully not shadowed due to 90's you can download it and run Jack the Ripper on the file. What's a dictionary file you says? just type password guesses like "password" manually and see which hashes match and you end up laughing every time you see the local baker or an advertisement for them because you've been using their dialup account since year 9

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

deep in an underground bunker 2500 feet below the earths mantle in Denver Colorado, Jonny 290 undertakes the most daunting task: safely install 128GB of DDR4. he wipes the sweat from his brow as he stares at a the Asus ROG 360 NoScOpE special edition RGB motherboard and matched Ballistix ram with gold anodized heat sinks.

“here we go” he mutters to the team pumping oxygen to keep them all alive deep below the earths surface. “it’s a risk, but the extra chrome tabs will be worth it”. he grabs the glistening ram stick and has to make the hardest decision of his life…….one side first, or both sides at the same time. existence itself hangs in the balance and only he can make the call.

Jonny steels himself and says aloud, as record for future generations “we’re going full insertion, both tabs at the same time”. a gasp is heard from the bystanders. they’ve only heard of this technique, it’s never been tried.

the ram shines in the harsh laboratory lights. the pressing begins. the ram moves downwards

at the same time, clear across the earth, in Australia:

Progressive JPEG posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T32YvlEYS7I

Progressive JPEG posted:

how the h*ck is blogger still online

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

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.