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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6C8Ae8jsto computer chronicles owned. Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up863eQKGUI KennyLoggins has a new favorite as of 07:00 on Dec 25, 2015 |
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I will never copy another floppy as long as I live.
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# ? Dec 25, 2015 07:08 |
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The Bible posted:I will never copy another floppy as long as I live. yeah i still burn CDs from time to time i do kind of miss cleaning out roller mice though. it was always somewhat satisfying.
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# ? Dec 25, 2015 07:10 |
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thathonkey posted:yeah i still burn CDs from time to time Switch to trackballs and get some satisfaction
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KennyLoggins posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6C8Ae8jsto I loved that show. His comb over ruled. People thought I was good with computers because I had an aol acocunt.
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# ? Dec 25, 2015 07:30 |
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A few weeks ago it came up in some thread (maybe AIRPOWER/Cold War Thread) that the US military uses mIRC, they have etiquette guidelines for how to call in airstrikes and they're not allowed to slap anyone with trouts. What is goldie.exe?
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# ? Dec 25, 2015 09:15 |
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i miss degaussing
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# ? Dec 25, 2015 11:08 |
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http://savethesounds.info/
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Jesus Christ posted:i miss degaussing I used a 19" Iiyama diamondtron CRT until 2013. The desk-shaking *BRONK* was immensely satisfying, but I won't miss the horrible inefficiency and neutron star-like weight.
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# ? Dec 25, 2015 14:40 |
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Buttcoin purse posted:What is goldie.exe? Can't find anything online about it. It's now a long past legend. It was a little (like 30k) standalone app that only opens an animated gif like, black and white ultra low res topless exotic dancer with a 4s loop. GOD THAT WAS FUNNY.
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# ? Dec 25, 2015 16:10 |
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If I have learned anything during my time on these gay forums it's that autistic people loving LOVE degaussing and taking about how they miss degaussing and attempting to translate the degaussing noise their monitor made into text. KROOOOOOOONNGGGGGGGGGGG click
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Don Tacorleone posted:This is a long shot, did anyone ever read "the loser upstairs" ? Mid 90s, it was probably one of the first blogs ever, way before they were popular Oh my god YES I read that loving thing, as well as his other blog "life of a 41 year old virgin" or somesuch, google up "losernet" and yeah - it's still online! Having assburgers in 1995 sucked pretty bad because you didn't have any fanboyism subculture to relate with. Ole lavahead would have had a ball in 2015 along with bronies.
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# ? Dec 25, 2015 16:19 |
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Remember back when we had honest-to-god programs, not sissy little "apps"? Kids these daaaaays
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$11,000 laptop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRCBepOHaYk Skip to 12:10 plape tickler has a new favorite as of 17:21 on Dec 25, 2015 |
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How to defraggle a motherdisk, by Docktor Narton. http://web.archive.org/web/20040202040319/http://www.datadocktorn.nu/us_frag1.php
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drunk asian neighbor posted:Wait what? I can't find any references, but I distinctly remember there being stories going around CompuServe about him getting banned a couple of times before sorting it out. I mostly used CompuServe to get Doom wads, and given the Reznor-Doom connection, that's probably where I heard it.
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# ? Dec 25, 2015 20:04 |
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Does anyone remember the good ol days of Craigslist before your local police department learned about it? You could have 2 dozen guys over to your apartment to poz your neg hole in an afternoon without getting arrested for indecency.
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# ? Dec 25, 2015 20:39 |
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piegates.exe, scrublords
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# ? Dec 25, 2015 20:55 |
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These games...
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Return Of JimmyJars posted:Does anyone remember the good ol days of Craigslist before your local police department learned about it? You could have 2 dozen guys over to your apartment to poz your neg hole in an afternoon without getting arrested for indecency. i'm always late for the poz party
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A SWEATY FATBEARD posted:Oh my god YES I read that loving thing, as well as his other blog "life of a 41 year old virgin" or somesuch, google up "losernet" and yeah - it's still online! Wait, so is this ironic or something, I am confused. I started reading the Loser Upstairs thing and so far it sounds like the guy upstairs watches movies, eats pizza, talks to people on the phone, and has friends over. Meanwhile the guy downstairs seems to spend every second in his apartment chronicling what the "loser" upstairs is doing. I've only read like the first ten things though, so maybe it gets worse?
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OneTrueBru posted:I used a 19" Iiyama diamondtron CRT until 2013. Those were some of the nicest flat CRT screens for a long time.
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# ? Dec 25, 2015 22:09 |
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Buying a math co-processor to run falcon 3.0 on my 386 and wishing I could afford a 486/33mhz to play it in awesome mode ("486 - SUPER Hot!") Getting pissed every time Mad Kirfa would burn an entire assault rifle mag killing a rat or some poo poo in Wasteland. Playing Starflight on dual 5.25" floppies and getting irate when mom would clean up my desk and move my code wheel. Lotus 1-2-3. I used the slash codes in Excel after it took over as the killer app forever. Running WordPerfect on OS/2 Warp after using the compatibility diskette to "make it run better". Installing Windows 95 (with the haunted house Plus pack theme) from 35 floppies because OS/2 Warp sucked so much rear end. 4mbit token ring and getting to upgrade to 16mbit. DikuMUD
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OctoberBlues posted:Wait, so is this ironic or something, I am confused. I started reading the Loser Upstairs thing and so far it sounds like the guy upstairs watches movies, eats pizza, talks to people on the phone, and has friends over. Meanwhile the guy downstairs seems to spend every second in his apartment chronicling what the "loser" upstairs is doing. I've only read like the first ten things though, so maybe it gets worse? The author is projecting his immense butthurt and jealousy onto the (normal) guy upstairs. It's no accident that his other - and much better - blog is called the life of a 41 year old virgin.
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# ? Dec 26, 2015 09:24 |
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I remember pirating games for the Commodore 64, and being pretty SOL sometimes with no manuals or any way to figure out basic things in a game. We have some 2.5D flying game where you started off in a closed hangar, and could not figure out how to the get the doors to open. A friend of my brother's said "put something heavy on 6" and this actually worked, even though it was awkward finding something that would hold the key down while not pushing all the keys around it. We eventually figured out you had to hit F6 to open the hangar doors.
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Agrikk posted:Buying a math co-processor to run falcon 3.0 on my 386 and wishing I could afford a 486/33mhz to play it in awesome mode ("486 - SUPER Hot!") When I upgraded from a 386SX/20 to a 386DX/40, suddenly my flight sims started running at the proper speed and my reactions weren't fast enough! quote:Lotus 1-2-3. I used the slash codes in Excel after it took over as the killer app forever. Just a few weeks ago I was struggling to find something I hadn't used for a long time in the menus and wanted to use slash codes quote:Running WordPerfect on OS/2 Warp after using the compatibility diskette to "make it run better". I don't know exactly what this is but it sounds pretty bad, my condolences. I never used OS/2 back in the day, it sounded way better than Windows, except for the fact that everything was designed for Windows (or still for DOS). Lucky for me I spent all my time learning everything about Windows rather than something that died, I guess.
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At the McDonald's I worked at in college, I remember my manager telling me that his friend worked for Hewlett Packard and that he told him that there would never be a CD drive that would run any faster than 4x because any faster and the CD would melt. I also remember playing the first Leisure Suit Larry on an amber monochrome monitor, and having all the answers memorized for the questions it would ask you in the beginning to verify that you were 18.
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# ? Dec 26, 2015 14:42 |
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i've just ran goldie.exe on my army laptop w/ win98, good stuff now I'm looking for those short animation that you were supposed to send to your mates via email, like aliens dropping giant viagra pill into loch ness to find the monster or dick cheney performing cavity search on saddam hussein
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XMS and EMS memory. I made an autoexec.bat with a choice of five or six different variations of memory profiles (DOS=HIGH or EMM386) so I could play different games. Then along came QEMM386 and solved most of my problems. That and interrupt conflicts are two things I do not miss.
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KiteAuraan posted:There was this one game I used to play the gently caress out of that I cannot remember the name of for the life of me. It was a point and click edutainment thing in Egypt. I remember getting freaked out when you go into Abu Simbel and a statue of Ramses II with glowing eyes yells at you about some poo poo. Was it Memphis Math Treasure of the Tombs?
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criscodisco posted:At the McDonald's I worked at in college, I remember my manager telling me that his friend worked for Hewlett Packard and that he told him that there would never be a CD drive that would run any faster than 4x because any faster and the CD would melt. i guess this is why he was a McDonald manager.
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# ? Dec 26, 2015 18:49 |
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Leisure suit Larry Westside BBS
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# ? Dec 26, 2015 18:56 |
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first online RPG i ever played legends of kesmai (1996)
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Mzuri posted:interrupt conflicts are two things I do not miss. Interrupt conflicts on pc's and SCSI chain fuckery on Macs. Things I am exceptionally glad are no longer an issue except in in unimportant vintage/hobby machines.
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Ehud posted:first online RPG i ever played lol what is even happening in this game
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Holy gently caress yes! Chip's Challenge! U remember wasting SOOO many hours trying to get past a few of the seemingly impossible levels. Thank you for this bit of nostalgia.
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That Robot posted:lol what is even happening in this game he's a knight who is about to kill the dragon (nicknamed daisy) and loot the returning hammer (+4 combat and you can used it up close or as a ranged weapon) from the crypt behind the dragon's lair When I was a kid I played this game with my uncle and the dragon was always camped so one morning he called and woke me up at 5am to log in and kill her my mom came and said, "honey, your uncle Sky is on the phone he said to wake up so you can get on the computer to get a 'returning hammer'" lol
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