funy tech shit u just remembered v2.0. 56k-safe

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FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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bilbao swaggins (lives, not in an underground house with a round front door, but in a frank gehry designed gallery of swooping titanium curves)

# ¿ Jan 24, 2023 23:32

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 09:10

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:

I need floppies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa98AhEVAZQ

# ¿ Jan 25, 2023 21:04

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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quark setting itself on fire was the funniest goddamn thing. they had an unimpeachable hold on the entire publishing industry, an incredibly deep moat filled with piranhas, and anyone switching off of quark would have to junk and rebuild their entire print workflow at enormous expense in time and money and hassle and training and ruined output - and they were so awful and greedy and unresponsive that adobe came in and rather effortlessly swept up their entire customer base. just incredible

# ¿ Jan 29, 2023 08:45

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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Beeftweeter posted:

someone could try and do the same thing to adobe but it'd be pretty difficult to pull off today

adobe would probably just buy the company anyway. someone would have to be really committed to tearing it down lol

ive heard that adobes chokehold is explained by the fact that they hold alllll the patents for pretty much every kind of digital imaging algorithm and technology

# ¿ Jan 29, 2023 17:58

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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trilljester posted:

It was an absolute piece of poo poo software.

so, an operating system?

# ¿ Feb 2, 2023 00:10

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:

Numbers are wild, they just go on forever, it aint right

take it to the official YOSPOS numbers thread, pal

# ¿ Mar 1, 2023 20:25

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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rotor posted:

all the best mobile operating systems do this fyi

even the best mobile operating is still, at the end of the day, a piece of poo poo

# ¿ Mar 6, 2023 19:50

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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Nitr0 posted:

have ya heard of this thing called the internet

sounds awful

# ¿ Mar 22, 2023 19:38

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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Volmarias posted:

Ironically, when I worked in a grocery store, I liked rounding up shopping carts. No one bothered you, you worked at your own pace, you could visibly see the progress you were making, fresh air.

note: only applies on days that arent blazing hot or pissing down cold rain

i imagine cart wrangling is a lot less fun in the current era of giant suvs with terrible sightlines and smartphone-using drivers

# ¿ Mar 24, 2023 20:07

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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rotor posted:

fax machine

telecopier

telex

# ¿ Apr 4, 2023 06:05

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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rotor posted:

telex was a different but also great thing

luv 2 see an old business card or listing with a telex number on it

# ¿ Apr 4, 2023 06:11

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:

i named myself �kwikness� while playing descent on the high school library computer LAN and when i killed a dude, from across the quiet library he yelled �who the gently caress is kwinkles??� and kwinkles was born.

beep boop

# ¿ May 16, 2023 23:35

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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funny tech poo poo i just remembered: z0r :smith:

# ¿ May 16, 2023 23:36

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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infocom games having actual in-universe props in the packaging (that also doubled as antipiracy tools)

# ¿ May 17, 2023 23:21

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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ringtones being a $billion/year business

# ¿ May 24, 2023 23:20

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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e: wrong thread

FMguru fucked around with this message at 17:00 on May 26, 2023

# ¿ May 26, 2023 16:55

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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Achmed Jones posted:

im postin via the sa app right now

# ¿ May 28, 2023 01:42

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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rotor posted:

if you're about to buy someone a gift card, just give them cash instead. Its always ok.

actually, instead of given them cash instead, consider giving ME cash

i guarantee you that it always ok

# ¿ May 29, 2023 05:38

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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Volmarias posted:

I feel like there should be a neon grid into the vanishing point on the top of that picture.

or it should be running a nuclear missile defense system somewhere in north dakota

# ¿ Jun 6, 2023 20:01

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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https://twitter.com/superDanimeclub/status/1668071584261902337

# ¿ Jun 12, 2023 19:18

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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njsykora posted:

most of what normies are looking up is sports results and a celebrity�s instagram page and google still works for those at least

yeah im pretty sure that 95+% of searches for <thing> lead to:

- <thing> on wikipedia
- r\<thing>
- <thing>.com
- <thing> on imdb
- <thing> on instagram
- <thing> on amazon
- <thing> on facebook

and maybe a couple of others

people doing deep dives for some esoterica are a vanishingly small percentage of search activity. most people when they google for 'gettysburg' are happy to get back links to the wikipedia article on the battle, the imdb page for the 1993 movie, a map of that area of pennsylvania, and a thumbnails of bestselling books about it on amazon

# ¿ Jun 18, 2023 21:34

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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kitten smoothie posted:

During the dot-com bubble, the company had a market capitalization of $6 billion despite only $22 million in annual revenue.

bought by sun just as sun started its accelerating death spiral, hosed around with until all the engineers left, and then closed down three years later

another silicon valley success story

lmao

# ¿ Jun 23, 2023 01:52

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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Beeftweeter posted:

17" used to be considered a humongous monitor size

and 800x600 was unfathomably many pixels

# ¿ Jun 28, 2023 17:01

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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Sagebrush posted:

i pulled this old cnc lathe out of storage to clean up as a summer project

wanna press that big red button

# ¿ Jun 29, 2023 04:52

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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Leperflesh posted:

space quest III looked great to me, we played it on an IBM PS1 with I think EGA or maybe VGA graphics

*buys orat-on-a-stick*

# ¿ Jul 2, 2023 22:35

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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rotor posted:

those 400 pixels could have held the cure to cancer, sargebush.

or those 400 pixels could have grown up to be the next hitler

something to think about, rotor

# ¿ Jul 17, 2023 07:05

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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free kevin!

...from his wretched earthly meat-shell :rip:

# ¿ Jul 20, 2023 05:39

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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https://twitter.com/historyinmemes/status/1683625570637053954

# ¿ Jul 25, 2023 22:50

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mediaphage posted:

one time my husband was picking me up at pearson and was using google maps and it very clearly tried to get him to go onto a gated road at the back of the airport and then drive onto the runway to my terminal

that would be pretty rad, ngl

# ¿ Jul 27, 2023 00:32

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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kitten smoothie posted:

also you could buy stuff from sears by punching in the SKU from the sears catalog, and then it�d be waiting for you in a self serve cubby at the store. that part was like 25 years ahead of its time

sears literally had a decade-plus lead on amazon in terms of being an online everything store

and they just sort of threw it away

# ¿ Aug 3, 2023 19:39