Jim Silly-Balls posted:

Displeased Moo Cow posted:

that’s why I live in a building made of the safest material known to man - wood.

Doom Mathematic posted:

Sony BMG initially denied that the rootkits were harmful. It then released, for one of the programs, an "uninstaller" that only un-hid the program, installed additional software that could not be easily removed, collected an email address from the user, and introduced further security vulnerabilities.

Sagebrush posted:

Somewhere between 1992-1995, I would say, I remember a commercial of Hulk Hogan advertising a certain pair of shoes. Inside the sole there was a drawer-like compartment in which one was supposed to keep small pieces of meat such as beef jerky or ham. This meat would be kept warm while they walked.

I have asked roughly 20 people if they remember this product, none of them do. Someone suggested that due to the outrageousness of the product, it's possible that I am remembering a spoof commercial from Saturday Night Live. That is most definitely a possibility. But I remember seeing this commercial on more than one occasion. Certainly my seven-year-old self couldn't have been having reoccurring dreams of Hulk Hogan shoes. Help me, Internet.

Here is a picture of what I vaguely remember it to look like:

Sagebrush posted:

in the era of premium ringtones i was a hipster and/or snob about it and only used MIDI ringtones. sure, phones could play WAV files, but that just sounded like (garbled, noisy) music, not a telephone ringing. i felt that the electronic tones of MIDI files, in addition to being a lot more clear on a tiny phone speaker, were more appropriate for a ringer.

i had software to chop up MIDI files and extract certain tracks and configure them for the Nokia synth table and everything. hell, i probably still have MIDIs of the austin powers theme song and stuff sitting deep in an archive folder somewhere.

j o y c e posted:

shark is the same as dyson Lol

AlbertFlasher posted:

Carthag Tuek posted:

Progressive JPEG posted:

those corded telephone handsets on the back of airplane seats with a slot to swipe your credit card if you wanted to call someone for a dollar a minute

Sweevo posted:

gabensraum posted:

whatever that GNAA troll group was who would try to have first reply to every slashdot post

echinopsis posted:

he’s actually an epubifile it’s a subtle difference

cheque_some posted:

were these the cool looking speakers?

FMguru posted:

they pioneered that with their printers - establish a reputation in the 1980s and early 1990s as making reliable and nigh-indestructible laserjets for offices, then trade on that reputation to sell junk-grade inkjets to consumers

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

jonny just get a lightweight microatx case and then get a set of case straps. or go hardcore and weld a handle onto a microatx case.

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

lol drat check out the cases.

Skinnymansbeerbelly posted:

I'm the guy who's still mad that the library catalog doesn't have the responsiveness that it did when it was through telnet

Best Bi Geek Squid posted:

yosposters when asked what they ate for breakfast this morning: “hmmm maybe…food? idk”

yosposters upon seeing a picture of an old printer: “August 15, 1992. Apple LaserWriter IIf. Ms. Blevins’ 4th grade classroom. 2 MB onboard ram. Tasted of strawberries”