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My memory is fuzzy on the details, and google is no help, but I seem to remember that you could get Netscape working with AOL 2.x or 3.0. You had to do some fuckery and maybe even install a 3rd party TCP/IP stack like Trumpet Winsock.
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Speaking of AOL, Did anyone besides me ever use that thing where you call an 800 number and a flat affect robot lady would read your emails to you? SO FUTURE.
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Remember ZDTV? Remember Silicon Spin? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcJBXgmdX44 Here they talk about MSN launching and linking to AOL
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my most significant computer memory is playing ultima 6 on a DOS era machine in 2001. i was blown away by how open the game was, and how much time you could spend doing useless poo poo, compared to my snes experiences. then i tried to install ultima 7 and things went so far south i had to reinstall windows. e: apparently i already posted itt about this very thing. but i do ramble on...*hacks up phlegm,rubs cane suggestively* coolskull has a new favorite as of 00:34 on Apr 13, 2016 |
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Bonzo posted:Remember ZDTV? Remember Silicon Spin? It came at a time when computers and the internet and technology at large were evolving and changing at a rapid pace and ZDTV/Tech were right there to make sense of it all. But then greed took over...  gently caress G4 forever for killing ZDTV/TechTV. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEBwGOHntro
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:I searched the server in my basement (literally just an old PC that I managed to cram 14 hard drives into; 1TB being the smallest, 4TB being the largest) because I am a digital hoarder and hey, I might need a book report I did in junior high someday.  except for the needing 14 hard drives bit  quote:The rest of the keyword links I found by going to Google, searching "aol favorite places", and setting the date to 1995 to 1999 and I got like two websites where someone actually uploaded their favorite places. That's how I found Slingo. Not much else, unfortunately. Why doesn't anyone else back up useless poo poo from 20 years ago besides me?? Okay here's where I still go for old school web searching techniques: rather than say "OK GOOGLE search for websites with aol links", just search for the words "aol" and "4344" right next to each other. This seems like it might be useful, does it look good? Sten Freak posted:The AOL chatrooms I recall were just people sending porn gifs to each other as you could just push them to people. A lot of it shock stuff like poop and worth.jpg. worth.jpg? The internet seems to have forgotten. Maybe I need to search archive.org, do they have a shock images section? 
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Buttcoin purse posted:worth.jpg? The internet seems to have forgotten. Maybe I need to search archive.org, do they have a shock images section? Thankfully TubGirl marches on.
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FilthyImp posted:Similarly, TheGiver.Jpg seems lost to time. Hard to believe Goatse almost bit it too. She has to be a bit annoyed by now.
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FilthyImp posted:Similarly, TheGiver.Jpg seems lost to time. archive.org does solve this, kinda. The Wayback Machine has  https://web.archive.org/web/19991012164847/http://goatse.cx/giver.shtml I went back and forward in the history and found sometimes the front page linked to giver.*s*html and sometimes without the s, but it was always that same picture. That's not the guy I remember, I remember some guy with a beard and a chode. Maybe I'm just making that up because that's what I wanted to see? 
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The thing about AOL was that its tagline was "so easy to use, no wonder it's #1". The old days of the internet were not a friendly place and just being able to use AOL to look up logical keywords and have a friendly interface to read the news and stock tips was enough for most of the "casual" surfers of that era. "Power users" could get into FTP and Newsgroups and such, but with only a typical ISP, there's nothing to do when you connect unless you know what you're doing, and with so little user-friendly content, it was like the wild west. With AOL, once you signed in it was very easy to use. Someone gave the analogy of AOL being like only visiting Google sites, but that's not really accurate because going to the homepage of Google won't let you easily navigate to the other functions of the site. The best comparison would be going on Yahoo and never visiting any non-Yahoo page. There's still enough content in terms of news, finance, games, gossip, email, messenger, message boards, etc, all accessible from the main page. It's somewhat feasible for someone to only spend time on Yahoo and ignore the rest of the internet, as much of a waste it would be. Yahoo was absolute huge during the transition from AOL to the mainstream internet. It was what people needed, a logical site layout that gave the majority of users enough content to be satisfied with, not even counting their search engine capabilities. For awhile, Yahoo was the internet, people would sign up for ISPs and ask the staff if it would let them access Yahoo. It had content for all ages and all ranges of people, and their email addresses were the most popular. The site has been descending into irrelevancy, but in the 90s, Yahoo was the king, and even now there's still plenty to do on the site.
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I bet that AOL was easier than running lynx, then using zmodem to download images I wanted to look at, and running gopher and archie for searches, like I started out doing. e: I read some book called The Complete Idiot's Guide To The Internet which explained all the commands. I remember being proud that I got some pages from my personal "home page" listed in Yahoo's directory. I assume that directory no longer exists (except in archive.org) and most of the links (including mine) broke long ago.
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That is the game from Encarta right? P sweet.
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thathonkey posted:That is the game from Encarta right? P sweet. Yep. My parents would buy me poo poo like Encarta, Number Crunchers, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego. I had to pay for all the Sierra games and X-Wing and Panzer General and other fun poo poo myself.
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Original_Z posted:The thing about AOL was that its tagline was "so easy to use, no wonder it's #1". The old days of the internet were not a friendly place and just being able to use AOL to look up logical keywords and have a friendly interface to read the news and stock tips was enough for most of the "casual" surfers of that era. "Power users" could get into FTP and Newsgroups and such, but with only a typical ISP, there's nothing to do when you connect unless you know what you're doing, and with so little user-friendly content, it was like the wild west. With AOL, once you signed in it was very easy to use. There's some movie where a guy with a ham radio can talk to his dad thru time (Dennis Quaid I think) and the big gag at the end is he told his dad in the past to invest early in yahoo and he ends up super rich. Pretty  given their current situation
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Reading this thread made me dig up my old SAGoonMap program from 2000, took me a while to find on Archive.org. Seems to work still. http://imgur.com/a/KHqJz Somebody did a much better one later.
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Tarkus posted:Reading this thread made me dig up my old SAGoonMap program from 2000, took me a while to find on Archive.org. Seems to work still. This isn't creepy at all.
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BgRdMchne posted:Yep. My parents would buy me poo poo like Encarta, Number Crunchers, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego. I had to pay for all the Sierra games and X-Wing and Panzer General and other fun poo poo myself.
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I grabbed this book from the hallway at work a few years ago     Ask me anything about The Whole Internet
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I always put my Ergodex DX1 in threads like this because it pisses me off that it's in perfectly good condition, just no one has bothered to write drivers for it in a while. Would be awesome for Elite:Dangerous http://ergodex.com/mainpage.htm
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what fuuuuuuuuck How does it represent itself to the computer? I'm assuming it worked with like 98 but everything else it doesn't do poo poo? Is it a HID or something else?
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It worked up until like...2010? Windows 7, I think? Haven't even bothered to plug it in to my last two machines.
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maybe it magically works now dig that sumbitch out did you ever put the compass on it? e: this is deceptive marketing it's just a pic of a compass behind the glass or some bullshit
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I forget which version it was, but when I was a kid we had AOL and the you've got mail picture scared me so much that I had nightmares about it and imaged a human size version of the hand reaching into a mailbox coming after me in the hallways of my home. I was afraid to use the computer or even watch someone login because of it. Something about the weird colors and dithering or something just didn't sit well with 7 year old me. We eventually got a broadband cable connection because my brother was an avid online gamer at the time and I never had to see it again.  My mom got me some CD called something like 300 Great Games for Windows which was really just a collection of shareware crap. Castle of the Winds was the only game I enjoyed on it and must have played through a dozen times. The entirety of part 1 was released as shareware but my parents wouldn't buy part 2 for me for some reason. Like 10 years later I found out the creator had released the entire game for free in 1998 and finally got to finish my quest for vengeance.
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Rad games on our Apple IIc like Conan, Hard Hat Mack, Spy vs. Spy, California Games (still have yet to find an as-fully-featured hacky sack or frisbee sim), Bard's Tale, Karateka, Castle Wolfenstein, Choplifter, Galaxian, Moon Patrol, Zaxxon and of course, Carmen San Diego I hate to think how a lot of that stuff has aged
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Oh man, I had this one game that was some weird hybrid of the normal top down dungeon fighter but was completely text based. Like there were hp bars and stuff but out with a lovingly described rusty knife sucked, but once I was able to upgrade to lovely leather and a rusty battle axe 
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Steve Jorbs posted:I forget which version it was, but when I was a kid we had AOL and the you've got mail picture scared me so much that I had nightmares about it and imaged a human size version of the hand reaching into a mailbox coming after me in the hallways of my home. I was afraid to use the computer or even watch someone login because of it. Something about the weird colors and dithering or something just didn't sit well with 7 year old me. I remember my dad being very amused by the "dirty little hand" on audiograbber. 
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UIApplication posted:There's some movie where a guy with a ham radio can talk to his dad thru time (Dennis Quaid I think) and the big gag at the end is he told his dad in the past to invest early in yahoo and he ends up super rich. Pretty On the other hand, the same joke at the end of Forrest Gump where he invests in "some fruit company" just keeps getting better and better
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"What computers?"
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Getting back to AOL--I remember Heckers Online very dearly...they had a top 10 contest every day, and I think the prize was 10 free hours of AOL or some such nonsense. One time the topic was "New Snapple Flavors," and my friend suggested "Greg Louganis Fruity Punch" using my account. That gem won the #2 spot. Top prize went to "Toe Jambalaya." Who did the writing for the AOL-supplied content of Hecklers Online? I always wondered.
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Efexeye posted:I always put my Ergodex DX1 in threads like this because it pisses me off that it's in perfectly good condition, just no one has bothered to write drivers for it in a while. Would be awesome for Elite:Dangerous A quick Google search gives me an open-source driver and confirmation that it works with Win8/10. Plug that sumbitch in!
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Efexeye posted:I always put my Ergodex DX1 in threads like this because it pisses me off that it's in perfectly good condition, just no one has bothered to write drivers for it in a while. Would be awesome for Elite:Dangerous 
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Steve Jorbs posted:My mom got me some CD called something like 300 Great Games for Windows which was really just a collection of shareware crap. Castle of the Winds was the only game I enjoyed on it and must have played through a dozen times. The entirety of part 1 was released as shareware but my parents wouldn't buy part 2 for me for some reason. Like 10 years later I found out the creator had released the entire game for free in 1998 and finally got to finish my quest for vengeance. Whenever I saw those sorts of CDs in stores, I always felt sorry for the kids whose parents didn't realize their kids only wanted the AAA game titles and were instead getting the bottom of the barrel. It's not quite fair, there was some cool stuff in shareware, and some crappy AAA titles, but you definitely would have to go through a lot of shareware games to find something decent, and you really needed some good imagination to get past the fact they normally looked a lot worse than the professional ones. Of course I'm ignoring like Commander Keen episode 1, Wolfenstein 3-D episode 1, Duke Nukem episode 1, etc. being shareware. SniperWoreConverse posted:Oh man, I had this one game that was some weird hybrid of the normal top down dungeon fighter but was completely text based. Like there were hp bars and stuff but out with a lovingly described rusty knife sucked, but once I was able to upgrade to lovely leather and a rusty battle axe Was it a roguelike, like Moria or NetHack? 
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Casimir Radon posted:I think I need an X-Keys setup. For poo poo y'know. The gently caress?
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I remember getting one of those lovely 1000 games collections. Absolutely all shareware but I found some cool games on there Capture the Flag or whatever. I think I read in this thread that it still exists, and the guy charges like $30 for it lol I found the Hugo's House of Horrors on there too! There was one i think called Operation: Bodycount which was a lovely fps where you had to clear 100 small levels of a sky scraper. I spent a whole summer basically loving around on one of those discs. Before the internet, it was harder to waste your time completely.
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I still have a shareware CD titled Epic Mega Games or something similar. I spent probably like two years of my childhood playing those games. It was actually a pretty decent selection of classic DOS shareware, with some popular titles (including Hugo, mentioned above). What made it nice is it came with a graphical menu that launched the games from the CD on the fly. Beat the hell out of the edutainment stuff we had.
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Are there images floating around for any of those big game comps?
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:I remember getting one of those lovely 1000 games collections. Absolutely all shareware but I found some cool games on there
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