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Agile Vector posted:i was talking to someone about that the other day. the crazy thing is poo poo like that is just on reddit now as part of the popular feed because reddit is terrible In junior high this was the site that boys my age would look at because it was edgy/gross/whatever, so I just registered the idea of sites with names like "rotten dot com" being poo poo that people would link you to gross you out. Around grade 9 (~2003) I was on just a random small message board and made a post about how bored I was and how I wanted people to link cool stuff. The admin of the site just pasted a link to "http://www.somethingawful.com" I didn't even click it, just replied to him about how I'm not gonna be fooled into looking at hosed up weird poo poo
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:to this day hddvd winning was the wrongest tech call ive made but at the same time the one that in retrospect seemed most right at the time given the context I believed in hddvd too until the 360 drive came out. It was external USB and iirc it sucked. Microsoft pretty much sealed the deal there.
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LOL it launched for $200, too. For a dongle. Jesus christ.
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You don't have to be lonely at farmers only dot com
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Agile Vector posted:tiger direct and the 100 pack of cdrs that required this to not error >50% of the time The Tiger Direct catalog
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Pretty sure there was a warez.com Also wasn't astalavista a site for downloading LEGIT FOR REAL HACKING TOOLS? (I pronounced it juarez before I learned what it came from)
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Nocd cracks were my poo poo. I would buy legit games and still install cracks because gently caress disc swapping all the drat time. Oh also my public library had legit copies of a lot of PC games where I'd do that too. iirc that was how I got both GTA Vice City and UT2k4 on PC. Related: being very insistent about how superior the PC ports of the GTA games were.
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Serious Sam 3 was a fairly recent one that just sent an unkillable monster through the levels of the cracked version. Thought that was a fun throwback.
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The Fins weren't exposed to The Beatles?
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Wasn't that all mIRC did? Just a small nag at startup and that was it. Lots of people still paid because they legit liked it.
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Holy poo poo mIRC is still updated.
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Was that a Nick thing? I remember hearing about something like that in the UK but I don't have specific memories of it in the US. Thinking about early 90s Nick just gave me a mad nostalgia rush though. Relevant tech thing: the Are You Afraid of the Dark "FMV" adventure game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGDmYHak7zY
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SNICK was the coolest poo poo in the 90s. Me and my friends would make an event of watching it when we were like 7-8ish. It was a bit of marketing wizardry to make that feel edgy and cool alongside selling Mattel toys or whatever.
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Jonny 290 posted:that requires a head-end, and as far as i can tell, there's just no bandwidth in the region. nobody's run fiber to any county central offices b/c they're not spending 79 million bucks to sell broadband to 1000 yokels Jonny. Please. Come on. Be the change you want to see in the world. Create a localized wifi meshnet that can hop you over to the charter hardline. Collectivize internet access in a remote rural area. You were born to do 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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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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Oh poo poo I just remembered trying to torrent from supernova (suprnova? whatever its name was) on 56k. Pretty sure I downloaded GTA:VC for PC off of there. Some kind soul made a rip of it where they deleted all of the VA work, so cutscenes were totally silent, but they worked, and it took the game down to like 300mb. I would start it up at like 9pm and used a shareware tool to automatically turn off my computer at like, 5am, so it'd free up the landline before my parents woke up. I did that poo poo for at least a week. I'm pretty sure I ended up finding out our public library had the PC version available for loan, so not long after I just installed it and used a no-CD crack. God drat just remembering the Rube Goldberg-rear end stuff I had to pull off as a teen with a 56k to not piss off my parents by hogging the landline. It's absolutely going to be my "kids these days!!!" material for the rest of forever.
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The other forum I regular had a huge fad for playing Ragnarok Online back ~2002. It was the biggest thing I had ever tried to download up until that point. lmao @ GetRight for DL management, wew
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Animal Friend posted:literally same. I dunno, the whole Chromebook-in-schools thing makes it so a lot of kids have no idea how files (or file systems) work at all, they can still probably get away with "I spent all night on it but now I can't find it on my Drive!"
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The_Franz posted:i'd believe "the google service that hosted my homework was shut down" far more than the old "my dog ate it" lmao
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obeyasia posted:i played in a pick-up team of CS 1.3, where i head shotted a person with a deagle to win a round, and i'll never forget it. This entire post is a huge nostalgia trip for me back to hs. What a time to be alive. Thread appropriate: Bawls Guarana
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Volmarias posted:Handheld scanners for documents you couldn't (or didn't want to) put into a flatbed scanner Big CueCat energy
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3D Megadoodoo posted:You scan the bar code on the bill with it, so you don't have to type in anything? The anroid application for my bank can use the phone camera for this but it literally never works because the bar code is too wide. Do you actually still use the original cuecat from 2000 for that? Cuz I'm super impressed if it still works.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Are there reproductions? It's the one I inherited from my dad (who used it for the same thing) in 2010. How does a USB bar-code reader break down anyway? I'm sure the machinery works fine! It's just not often that I think of random novelty peripherals still having connectors that work with modern motherboards 20+ years on, much less with drivers that still work with the OS. It's fairly impressive.
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mediaphage posted:i managed to find some unlimited dial up isp as a kid that my mom had to pay with a checking account and i’d need to manually type in connection strings every time i logged on lol, that brings back memories of typing in the dial-up credentials every single time. I was like 8 or 9 and got very good at doing it very fast. Our regional dialup ISP was called bright.net. Remember regional ISPs? What a time.
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And apparently they're still in business lol. Offering DSL even!
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The first time I learned about Aspergers was from reading an interview with the dude that created BitTorrent, forget his name now. Wonder what he's up to these days.
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polyester concept posted:memories downloading south park episodes for my 32" CRT television hooked up to my PC via s-video in 2004. I think it might have been summer of '04 when my parents finally decided to buy AC, and we just upgraded to broadband, and I discovered torrents, and we had a laptop with s-video out, and it was cool as gently caress. Probably the best summer of my life. Just riding bikes and hanging out with my friends during the day, playing video games, and then chilling out watching random-rear end anime on a big TV, and not sweating my rear end off the whole time.
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They seem to be getting a bit of love in the retro gaming scene, but I think those people are very particular about which models they'll use. Legit though a friend of mine was asking about whether it's a good idea to just walk off with one from the e-waste site in his town. (Sounds like probably yes!)
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Volmarias posted:How are computer recycling companies not getting away with doing the traditional "recycling" solution of "selling" the CRTs to a company in another country who just "accidentally" drops them out of the boat after pickup? That's what we were doing with most of our regular home recycling and China basically said they were done with it: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2021/01/10/china-quits-recycling-us-trash-as-sustainable-start-up-makes-strides/?sh=152a24a55a56
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Zlodo posted:mmo mouse make no sense, Hear me out on this one, I know it seems crazy, but: it doesn't matter and rubes will buy anything gaming-themed even if it's garbage because they want to believe it will give them an advantage even though five minutes of critical thought would prove otherwise.......... and marketers understand this
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:jenkem Whips rear end.
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Idk bluetooth headset was 100% something I associated with middle aged dudes who have no need for them but always have them in their ear. I don't feel like that aesthetic is still around. They're more likely to be "loud conversation in public on speakerphone" types when I see them these days.
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"What if a dialysis machine, but computers?"
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I use RSS feeds still because gently caress that poo poo.
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Progressive JPEG posted:RSS feeds still work today OP Might have to look into this. I've been using selfoss for a while because it has a convenient web interface but it's not really actively maintained.
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Didn't it come out and bomb, predictably? I remember their compelling modules were "phone speaker, but bigger" and "phone camera, but bigger"
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Nov 15, 2021 14:38
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Jonny 290 posted:still have dreams of stocking a box truck as an electronics shop and doing the food truck thing but for resistors and molex plugs and 3dp filament Could prolly make a mint doing this in Seattle/SF/NYC.
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Progressive JPEG posted:posting winamp status to irc Forum threads for "currently listening to" Also: livejournal, posting with your current mood and current song fields filled in.
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SYSV Fanfic posted:In it's natural habitat, circa 2005 So did the pot hold ramen or mac and cheese?
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