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kilogram posted:Anyone remember gifs? It was such a lovely technology and I'm glad it died alongside framesets and background midis
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Gifs are basically the only worthwhile thing to come out of this whole internet deal.
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May 1, 2016 22:05
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And goatse, don't forget goatse
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May 1, 2016 23:08
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 Casimir Radon posted:Old web pages were boring. Gifs improved upon them in their own clunky endearing way and for that I will love them forever. A lot of those CGI animated GIFs that websites used in the early 00s were all made by one company, Animation Factory, where people's full-time jobs were cranking out animated GIFs that clients requested. Reply All did an episode on it a few weeks ago.         
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May 1, 2016 23:16
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"Yeah, Animation Factory? I need a GIF of a UFO hovering above a guy who has been hogtied in the middle of a street with a cloth sack over his head!"
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May 1, 2016 23:18
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Gonz posted:I had the same thing happen to me when I attempted to install several floppy disk games on a school computer. I remember trying to run this on my 486 or something and it ran at like 2 colors and 2 frames per minute
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May 1, 2016 23:21
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net send /users This computer will shut down in 5 minutes. Easy to do when the computer network credentials are set to default/admin 123456 password, or not even a password at all.
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May 1, 2016 23:23
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Buttcoin purse posted:I suspect there aren't any drivers for 3.x supporting non 4:3 aspect ratios. I could easily make you a 1280x1024 one if you like (3.1, couldn't be bothered installing 3.11 and it should look the same). You could probably edit it to add some borders to make it larger. Come up with some cool idea for what apps you want running. Internet Explorer accessing goatse and the SA forums? I can probably find IE for 3.x somewhere although not sure on setting up TCP/IP. Go hog wild! Minesweeper in the corner, solitaire in another, skifree embracing a triple-deep grouping window of applications > games > lucasarts Who knows!
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May 1, 2016 23:26
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Just posting to say lmao at the thread title
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May 1, 2016 23:35
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Gonz posted:"Yeah, Animation Factory? I need a GIF of a UFO hovering above a guy who has been hogtied in the middle of a street with a cloth sack over his head!" This is exactly how it worked, actually.
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Geirskogul posted:This is exactly how it worked, actually. Oh, i'm definitely listening to this when I get home.
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May 2, 2016 00:48
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This thread inspired me to dig through my boxes in storage. I found these, gonna go searching for digital treasure 
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Mak0rz posted:The first thing that comes to mind on the topic of 90's .wav repositories is fart.com. Hell ya, I even got Squeak of the Week once. Best one was Famous Anus' Museum o' Fart. Basically a handful of short .wav files of songs or dialog with farts in them. What? Well, of course I saved them all! http://woodch.info/media/FamousAnus.zip
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Did anyone else ever see Barney's Funhouse or Barney's Playhouse? I can't remember the actual name. It was a website my friend showed to me in the school library in 1997. It looked basically like MSPaint, but there was a simple 2D outline of Barney the Dinosaur on the canvas. The gag was that all of the paint tools were weapons. So the spray can was a shotgun, the diagonal pen was a knife, etc. You could doodle on Barney to your heart's content, but he would "bleed out" and the "wounds" would grow gradually from what you yourself drew. There was also a status off to the side that said poo poo like, "Barney is injured," and then eventually, "Barney is dead, would you like a fresh Barney?" This was the height of humor to me at the time, but it was another year before I had internet at home and I still had no idea how URLs worked and haven't ever been able to find it again.
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May 2, 2016 03:52
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Where did the internet's obsession with killing Barney come from anyway?
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kilogram posted:We used to install the Quake 3 Arena demo on the school computers whenever we got our hands on them. Sometimes we played it in class if the teacher was away and then quickly alt tabbed out when they returned. It didn't always work. I imagine we must have been pretty easy to figure out too when everyone was giggling under their breath and giving each other looks. I used to do this with the Tony Hawk 2 demo Goddamn CNET has been around for loving ever, hasn't it Does anyone remember the CNET program that would scan your computer for software/driver updates? That ruled
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May 2, 2016 04:01
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Does anyone remember "Video Toaster"?
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FrozenVent posted:Where did the internet's obsession with killing Barney come from anyway? I remember even before that our schoolyard song to the tune of the Barney theme was "I hate you, I hate me, let's get together and kill Barney, with a Magnum .44 we will blow him out the door - that's how you kill a purple dinosaur"
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Three-Phase posted:Does anyone remember "Video Toaster"? Didn't they use that to make Star Trek TNG?
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May 2, 2016 04:04
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Aw the geocities doobie site is gone Rip
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May 2, 2016 04:06
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EugeneJ posted:I remember even before that our schoolyard song to the tune of the Barney theme was "I hate you, I hate me, let's get together and kill Barney, with a Magnum .44 we will blow him out the door - that's how you kill a purple dinosaur" I hate you, You hate me We're a hosed up family. And a shot rang out and a thud he hit the floor, no more purple dinosaur!
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May 2, 2016 04:07
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FrozenVent posted:Where did the internet's obsession with killing Barney come from anyway? Backlash to how saccharine he was in comparison to other children's entertainment. It's the same reason why people think Elmo is the worst part of Sesame Street.
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May 2, 2016 04:09
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Atlas Hugged posted:Backlash to how saccharine he was in comparison to other children's entertainment. It's the same reason why people think Elmo is the worst part of Sesame Street. I watched some news thing a few years ago about how some autistic kid who couldn't emote was forced to watch Barney as a kid, and after he grew out of it one of the first things he said was "I want to kill the dinosaur"
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May 2, 2016 04:11
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i just figured it was a phase some people had, violently rejecting toddler media. there's tweens on youtube now posting those seth mcfarlane template things about caillou getting beaten up.
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May 2, 2016 04:19
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Sir_Charles posted:anyone remember angelfire websites with nothing but dragonball z gifs?
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Lime Tonics posted:net send /users This computer will shut down in 5 minutes.
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May 2, 2016 04:26
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triple posting like whoaVanagoon posted:I hate you, You hate me we barbecued his head what happened to his body we flushed it down the potty and round and round it goes, and round and round it goes less a computer relic than a 90s elementary school relic but
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Does anyone remember those puzzle websites that required you to fish around the page's code or and do other such poo poo to find solutions and go on to the next page? Many of them were creepy as gently caress and in a way were precursors to modern-day cryptic viral marketing ARGs. One of them was http://thisisnotporn.com/, which seems to have been updated for modern browsers? I'm not sure. I remember the page title ("Something Terrible Has Happened") and content ("Madge Was Her Name. Please Wait Here.") being the same, but I can't remember how to progress. It's possible only the front page is kept for relic/nostalgia purposes and the rest of the site is dead.  This Is Not Porn was notorious for being very, very difficult to solve. Myself and a couple of friends managed to make it to page three or four ourselves and that's about it. An "easier" puzzle trying to cash in on its popularity was eventually made at http://notpron.org/notpron/levelone.htm, and that one is still alive in its full old glory! We made it further into that one. I should add that though they contain "porn" and "pron" in the urls the sites are both otherwise totally safe for work.
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LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:i just figured it was a phase some people had, violently rejecting toddler media. there's tweens on youtube now posting those seth mcfarlane template things about caillou getting beaten up. This is definitely partly responsible, but you don't see the same level of brutality directed at Big Bird or Blue, nor from adults. When I was in college, there was a big nostalgia kick for Sesame Street and other children's media, but not Barney. Adults also don't seem to loathe Dora the Explorer or other Nick Jr. characters the way they did Barney.
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May 2, 2016 04:38
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Because Barney isn't a good show not even for three year olds
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It's a giant, garishly colored purple dinosaur with a voice that sounds like Goofy's retarded inbred cousin and mannerisms that come out of a SPED class. No one ever gives a poo poo about his triceratops buddy Baby Bop. Barney also flew in the face of the 90s zeitgeist, preaching love and cooperation when cynicism was the rule of the day. FilthyImp has a new favorite as of 05:03 on May 2, 2016 |
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I think it was the kid-actors being over-the-top happy that sent it over the edge gently caress that little white boy and his eternal smile
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Dely Apple posted:Aw the geocities doobie site is gone I read that as doodie. The site appears down for me: http://www.doodie.com/
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FilthyImp posted:It's a giant, garishly colored purple dinosaur with a voice that sounds like Goofy's retarded inbred cousin and mannerisms that come out of a SPED class. I remember 20/20 did a thing where they showed kids barney and power rangers Barney kids were about to fall asleep while the power ranger kids basically bead eachother up
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May 2, 2016 05:47
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Barney was disliked mostly for the song, I feel.
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May 2, 2016 06:54
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max4me posted:Barney kids were about to fall asleep while the power ranger kids basically bead eachother up Power Rangers was Japan's stealth vector to infuse Millenials with enough Burning Vigor HotBlooded Passion that they would be ready for the infusion of DBZ that came 4 years later. An entire generation, lost to Anime. A fitting retaliation for Hiroshima.
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sinking belle posted:triple posting like whoa We sang this but it was Saddam. I wasn't up on 90s current events so I had no idea who Saddam was. I still sang it anyway.
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FilthyImp posted:The Barney song is basically a lullaby. We kinda brought it upon ourselves... 
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error1 posted:Oh come on, you know there can only be one I started at MS the week Win 3.1 was released. My boss and two coworkers designed the desktop themes and all the icons. There was only so much you could do with the Windows 16 color palette. But even then it was made fun of.
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