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Homer J. Fong posted:Whitehouse.com introduced many old rear end middle school librarians to Internet porn quote:thehun.com This is an old post, but when I was in 8th grade we did a tour of the local community college's library's state of the art computer facility, where all 120+ of us were given identical guest logins 'to see how fast their internet lab was'. Within 20 minutes the librarians were losing their minds trying to figure out who had downloaded So Much Porn onto their community server system. NotWearingPants posted:One of my friends tried to convince 4 or 5 of us to all go in on a CD burner. We were going to make our money back burning/selling music CDs . red19fire has a new favorite as of 10:40 on Jan 10, 2016 |
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Tumble posted:Oh here is a crazy ID thing; so right when Doom 2 got announced the PC world went pretty much Doom crazy - you could go into a bookstore and find multiple unauthorized Doom walkthroughs. Carmack is autism made flesh, but drat if he wasn't on the money where games were going. I remember some Doom book where Romero tried to describe Carmack attempting normal human interaction and it was the funniest loving thing.
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drunk asian neighbor posted:It is a bit silly how fast we went from cards that look like actual PCI/AGP cards to stuff like this:  gaudy flashy PC parts with 31337 extreme~ parts sticking out and blinking at you should die a fiery death.My favourite GPU design is "nondescript black box optimised for being less noisy than a jet engine" and giant RAM heatsinks (looking at you, gskill) mainly serve to reintroduce the use of power tools to PC building because might as well saw off the heat sink if it blocks your CPU cooler.
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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you were warned posted:Remember those radiation shields people used to put on CRT monitors? I thought it was more about the glare, but then whatever CRT monitor we had, later they came out with a "Low Radiation" version of it, so maybe the radiation was really a thing? Am I gonna die? Anyone else have a 386SX motherboard that took SIPP RAM? That was back in the days when nobody thought about making it at least slightly hard to break things, I guess. That made me remember what I was taught to call "pipeline RAM", but is apparently called "cache on a stick", for Pentiums.
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blackmarketlimb posted:Carmack is autism made flesh, but drat if he wasn't on the money where games were going. If anyone knows more about this story please post!
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thathonkey posted:If anyone knows more about this story please post! It was the book Masters of Doom. If the descriptions in the book are accurate, it sounds like almost everyone who worked at early id Software was a fundamentally broken human being in one way or another.
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Data Graham posted:I could never get TurboCAD to run. Were CAD licenses as obscenely expensive back then as they are now? I have AutoCAD 2013 at work, not LT (I occasionally use the 3D to layout equipment, like showing where a cable tray was going to run through a plant, and make a 3D model of an install and then generate views using FLATSHOT command) but anyhow my understanding is it costs more than $13,000. So that and other software running on my machine is worth nearly five times the cost of the machine itself.
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Three-Phase posted:Were CAD licenses as obscenely expensive back then as they are now? they probably moved over to monthly subscription based model like adobe has with photoshop and microsoft wants to do with all their office poo poo. a year of photoshop costs over $200. i dont think you can "buy" it anymore.
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Mak0rz posted:Do you live in eastern Europe? No rugs hanging on walls...chance of Eastern Europe = 0.00%.
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you were warned posted:Remember those radiation shields people used to put on CRT monitors? I didn't, either, until I came across this picture in a terrible real estate listing for a disgusting house: is that a radiation shield? it looks like a magnifier actually and that depressing dwelling looks like that of an elderly smoker who doesnt give a gently caress (american most def I would say) 
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Did anyone else have this bargain bin gem? It was a treat for all of your senses, but mostly hearing and seeing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94nbLl95unw
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Mak0rz posted:This was the best when I got it because I finally could play NES, Gameboy, and Genesis emulators with it because they only need 4 buttons! I also played through all of Ultimate Doom with that fucker somehow. I later upgraded to a Gravis Gamepad... PRO: I think had one of those and it fell apart pretty drat fast.  For some reason I had a flashback to one of these for my old Commodore when I was a kid. I still think I have it in the garage somewhere.
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 For some reason, my wife still has a case full of 5.25" floppies. This is about maybe half of them. If anyone wants to play some Math Blaster Plus! or needs a copy of Print Shop, let me know.
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slidebite posted:I think had one of those and it fell apart pretty drat fast. The Gamepad Pros were pretty fragile, yeah. It only took a month or so of use to make the buttons "soft" (i.e. they no longer clicked when pressed), and the d-pad was always way too sensitive.
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My bird destroyed my Gravis Gamepad Pro. I called Gravis and they sent me this: It was bad rear end. Analog stick, d-pad, 4 way hat, throttle, tons of buttons, analog flippers the front. Perfect for games like X-Wing Alliance. I don't know where it went. I wonder if it would still work in Windows 7+.
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This was the best early internet era gaming magazine going. Printed on super nice paper, decent articles and good interviews (for the most part). https://archive.org/details/next-generation-magazine
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slidebite posted:This was the best early internet era gaming magazine going. Printed on super nice paper, decent articles and good interviews (for the most part). Red Face Man looks pretty bored.
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Mak0rz posted:Did anyone else have this bargain bin gem? I played this so much after I discovered it on bootleg disc someone gave me. It was really good for the time, and I loved the freedom that it gave the player regarding leaving the track and doing whatever the hell I wanted. A lot of games didn't allow that back then. https://www.playdosgames.com/online/big-red-racing/ It's still good.
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Haier posted:I played this so much after I discovered it on bootleg disc someone gave me. It was really good for the time, and I loved the freedom that it gave the player regarding leaving the track and doing whatever the hell I wanted. A lot of games didn't allow that back then. Driving around the map way outside of the game's intended play area just for the hell of it was always something I liked to do in racing games. Big Red was pretty good at giving you that freedom. It's why games like Top Gear Rally and San Francisco Rush are the only racing games I'll play that aren't kart racers. I also had a demo (I think it came with my Diamond Monster Fusion 3D card) for a game called 4x4 Evolution that had huge worlds surrounding the tracks for some reason. There was nothing to find out there but sweet jumps, but it was pretty fun to explore. If you travel too far all you find is totally flat land, but all the maps repeated indefinitely like a RPG world map so you can drive indefinitely and get some sick speed. For some reason there was a really sharp car-height ridge that ran the entire length of the seam where the world repeats. Hitting that fucker at top speed was pretty funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZFzDSJXLiM&t=4s
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People considered Street Fighter 3 a failure? That series was awesome and Third Strike is my favorite SF game ever. EX+a, on the other hand...
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lining up the holes on the side of the paper in a line feed printer
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drunk asian neighbor posted:It is a bit silly how fast we went from cards that look like actual PCI/AGP cards to stuff like this: The RAM is dumb because the heatsink is totally unnecessary but GPUs can't look like normal cards anymore because their TDPs have increased massively necessitating huge rear end heatsinks. I prefer the clean styling of the Nvidia blower over that horrible gaudy thing you posted though. 
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thathonkey posted:is that a radiation shield? it looks like a magnifier actually and that depressing dwelling looks like that of an elderly smoker who doesnt give a gently caress (american most def I would say) Oh, could be! It made me remember radiation shields I saw as a kid. I specifically remember my piano teacher telling me to use one, because her mom had just died of cancer, and she'd bought one for her own monitor. That house is in Vermont, where my friend's coworkers stuck magnetic things to the back of their phones to supposedly block radiation... which made the phone stop working. They were unhappy when the people at the AT&T store took the things off to fix it again.  So I assumed it was for radiation. (And yeah, that whole house is yellow and disgusting. Definitely a smoker.)"Are you left-handed? Well then gently caress you.  "
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NextGen was the first gaming mag I ever bought with my own allowance.  The early to mid 90s were a special time for GAMES JOURNALISM. You could open any issue of any magazine and see previews for games on a dozen different systems. The range of graphics capabilities and design features/gimmicks was ridiculous. Plus all the crazy import poo poo from Japan. Typical Pubbie has a new favorite as of 01:51 on Jan 11, 2016 |
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MaxxBot posted:The RAM is dumb because the heatsink is totally unnecessary but GPUs can't look like normal cards anymore because their TDPs have increased massively necessitating huge rear end heatsinks. I prefer the clean styling of the Nvidia blower over that horrible gaudy thing you posted though. I think my old-rear end graphics card is pretty neat looking  metal pipes = cooler? 
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Heat pipes are a thing. Many laptops use them. Here's a Dell XPS M1330 that has a heat pipe connected to its CPU and graphics chips (and something else- probably the northbridge) 
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Every once in awhile a flying toaster comes to me in a dream. I remember a fluff news piece about the flying toaster like "screensaver takes world by storm!" jfc
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Typical Pubbie posted:NextGen was the first gaming mag I ever bought with my own allowance. The best was magazines that came with discs loaded with demos and (occasionally) full versions of games and software. Hillary Clintons Thong posted:I remember a fluff news piece about the flying toaster like "screensaver takes world by storm!" jfc tbh it kind of did because it and "man stranded on beach" are the only non-stock screensavers anyone ever talks about even 25 years later. E: Johnny Castaway is the name of the stranded man screensaver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqXIKeTVcyA Mak0rz has a new favorite as of 03:39 on Jan 11, 2016 |
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Mak0rz posted:Did anyone else have this bargain bin gem? Oh wow, I used to play the hell out of the demo back in 96. Been playing it online with a couple of friends thanks to Dosbox's IPX emulation. Fun as balls.
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Mak0rz posted:Did anyone else have this bargain bin gem? "That ain't mah belly button!" "That ain't mah finger neither, hyuk hyuk"
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Your Dead Gay Son posted:No browser tabs. Circa 2010~2011 I worked with a guy who still refused to use browser tabs. His reasoning was that if the browser crashed, you couldn't recover to where you were without reloading the faulty page. I'm pretty sure that even then at leat Firefox had a recovery function where you could selectively restore tabs in the event of a crash. He was interesting. He also refused to use flat screens because he didn't like the aspect ratio and it was harder to read papers/documents. Instead he had a couple of massive old crts.
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drunk asian neighbor posted:People considered Street Fighter 3 a failure? That series was awesome and Third Strike is my favorite SF game ever. EX+a, on the other hand... The game wasn't very popular or successful when it came out, especially the original version of SF3. People didn't like how most of the cast had been replaced, and overall it bombed in arcades. I feel like it wasn't until the home ports of 3rd Strike came out that most people actually started taking the game seriously, but by then the arcade release had done so poorly that it killed the franchise for a very long time.
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Mak0rz posted:E: Johnny Castaway is the name of the stranded man screensaver: That poor little dude had the worst luck.
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:He was interesting. He also refused to use flat screens because he didn't like the aspect ratio and it was harder to read papers/documents. Instead he had a couple of massive old crts. Big Trinitron CRTs were pretty fantastic. I had a pair of huge Sun monitors, they were beautifully designed and had a really nice picture. Had to buy 13w3 adapters for them but they were great. Here's a lovely picture (not mine):  (I had that same loving Model M keyboard and the same Logitech 3-button mouse... and actually now that I think about it my brother may have had that PC case, although without the penguin on it. The mouse and keyboard were/are great, I've still got them both somewhere.) Google Sun GDM-20E20 for more pics.
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