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Porn is big business and an easy way to drive the popularity of a legitimate search engine. I see no reason they should be ashamed to have a dedicated team Snipe edit: an obsolete tech relic that I love is the abacus, I think I'll look into various designs (I'm sure there's more than the simple number line version) and build one for myself Sentient Data has a new favorite as of 01:23 on Jun 24, 2017 |
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FilthyImp posted:Remember when you need to DL the whole file because if you got interrupted or whatever you'd have to start again. That's when you discovered Download Accelerator, which let you pause your downloads. I remember loving Hotbot as a search engine because you could display 100 results on a single page, unlike Lycos or Excite. I think Altavista finally changed the amount of results per page. Dogpile was my go-to for search engines before Google.
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Jun 24, 2017 02:00
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Sentient Data posted:Porn is big business and an easy way to drive the popularity of a legitimate search engine. I see no reason they should be ashamed to have a dedicated team Go pro and get yourself a slide ruler. You can be that guy. The guy with a slide ruler.
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Jun 24, 2017 02:05
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Incidentally my boyfriend used to work for Opera's QA team, and as the gay one he got to test all the gay porn sites - after all, they are both popular and fairly heavy on rendering engine.
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Jun 24, 2017 03:25
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FilthyImp posted:Go pro and get yourself a slide ruler. How about a circular slide rule? My dad (a pilot) taught me to do basic navigation calculations on an E6B when I got my driver's license. I still keep one in the glove compartment, though I've never actually used it to determine, say, my remaining range at current fuel consumption rate. 
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Jun 24, 2017 03:46
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FilthyImp posted:Go pro and get yourself a slide ruler. It's just "slide rule". I've got a couple, they're very cool collectibles and suitable gifts for engineers. I learned how to use them back in college because I was obsessed with obsolete tech, these days I can multiply and divide and that's it.
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Jun 24, 2017 04:52
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Meanwhile I've forgotten how to read analog callipers
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Jun 24, 2017 04:54
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I'm sure the subject has come up before, but for a while I owned this: An Original Odhner model 127 mechanical calculator from 1952. The outside was well patina'd, but it worked super smooth, so it must have been maintained. Adding, subtracting and multiplying is simple, but I couldn't figure out dividing. I probably would have with some practice. Some motherfuckers can apparently do square roots with these.
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CalculatorChat demands a Techmoan video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhUfRIeRSZE
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Jun 24, 2017 15:39
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evobatman posted:Adding, subtracting and multiplying is simple, but I couldn't figure out dividing If there's no mechanical function for it, my guess is there's a booklet of miltiplicitave inverses to use
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Jun 24, 2017 16:23
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Sentient Data posted:If there's no mechanical function for it, my guess is there's a booklet of miltiplicitave inverses to use You just turn the crank in reverse, but you have to make sure you don't turn it too far, and you have to keep track of your decimals by moving the magnitude-of-10 slider as you go. It's mechanically possible, it just takes a bit of practice.
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evobatman posted:I'm sure the subject has come up before, but for a while I owned this:
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Jun 24, 2017 19:28
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RC and Moon Pie posted:That's when you discovered Download Accelerator, which let you pause your downloads. I remember realizing the Internet was far inferior to BBSs because you couldn't pause your downloads as a matter of course.
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Jun 24, 2017 21:42
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Jerry Cotton posted:I remember realizing the Internet was far inferior to BBSs because you couldn't pause your downloads as a matter of course. It's always been possible, it's just that the implementations most people were using (Windows browsers) didn't allow you to restart a download. Worked fine when I started using wget on Linux.
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Jun 25, 2017 00:34
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Pham Nuwen posted:It's always been possible, it's just that the implementations most people were using (Windows browsers) didn't allow you to restart a download. Worked fine when I started using wget on Linux. My first web browser was IBM WebExplorer; I didn't get to windows until 98SE. I was talking about FTP anyway. (I'm sure there were loads of solutions for FTP but not in the environments I had access to  )e: Actually my first Internet forays were such that I first transferred the files via FTP to my home directory and then used loving Kermit to transfer them to my PC at home (running PC-DOS something-or-other). 3D Megadoodoo has a new favorite as of 00:45 on Jun 25, 2017 |
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Mak0rz posted:Meanwhile I've forgotten how to read analog callipers My joy at realising that I still knew how to read vernier calipers was ruined by the realisation that my eyes weren't good enough now to be able to read them anymore.
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Jun 25, 2017 00:56
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spog posted:My joy at realising that I still knew how to read vernier calipers was ruined by the realisation that my eyes weren't good enough now to be able to read them anymore.  I suppose that makes me also a tech relic. 
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FilthyImp posted:Go pro and get yourself a slide ruler.  Assuming I don't need more than about three significant figures I can do vector calculations faster on a slide rule designed for it than more or less any other way. There's actually an awful lot of engineering design work in the high-end and special-purpose slide rules in use right before they were displaced by the handheld calculator---consideration into what the computational workflow would look like, and so what calculations can be easily chained or done simultaneously on a single slide rule.
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Mechanical calculator divide by zero: https://youtu.be/7Kd3R_RlXgc
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Not really a tech relic, but for kicks I logged into my old Marantz/Denon service account and did the latest 'test' on features for 2017-18. I had to laugh seeing 'Tidal' on there, but then the audiophile poo poo started:
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Lastly, anyone ever play with Gopher VR? Not sure it added anything to the experience but it was kind of neat. Never heard of that one! Speaking of VR, what ever happened to VRML? I don't remember the last time I saw anything about it, but then I don't remember the last time I saw much 3D content on any sites anyway. Are there any better options these days? Pham Nuwen posted:It's always been possible, it's just that the implementations most people were using (Windows browsers) didn't allow you to restart a download. Worked fine when I started using wget on Linux. I used Cygwin on Windows 95 and always copy-and-pasted the URLs from IE and ran wget in case my dial-up connection dropped out. Many years later using Windows XP, or maybe even Windows 8, it blew my mind when I finally hit the 2GB (or 4GB?) file size limitation and had to look for a newer version (or a 64-bit build, I can't remember).
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Buttcoin purse posted:Never heard of that one! Speaking of VR, what ever happened to VRML? I don't remember the last time I saw anything about it, but then I don't remember the last time I saw much 3D content on any sites anyway. Are there any better options these days? It's dead and in the process of being replaced by WebGL. There's experimental support for VR in Chromium and Firefox nightlies too.
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Buttcoin purse posted:Never heard of that one! Speaking of VR, what ever happened to VRML? I don't remember the last time I saw anything about it, but then I don't remember the last time I saw much 3D content on any sites anyway. Are there any better options these days? For resuming downloads or multiple part downloads I still use Jdownloader. Also handy at ripping audio from various video sites.
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Oh we're gonna talk about 3D virtual worlds and chat rooms now?  
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Maybe 4-5 years ago yospos invaded some "Worlds" mmo/virtual space thing and it was surreal that it was even still running
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That's a name I recognize from their old DOS VR demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xht5KXInD_s That was pretty mind-blowing in 1991 or whenever I got it off a BBS. Regular Nintendo posted:Maybe 4-5 years ago yospos invaded some "Worlds" mmo/virtual space thing and it was surreal that it was even still running Second Life? I always wanted to get into that as a coder - I figured I didn't have too much shame to make money from selling weird poo poo to weirdos - but I just couldn't work out what the hell was going on.
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Buttcoin purse posted:That's a name I recognize from their old DOS VR demo: No this was pre second life, like mid-late 90s. The engine looked like doom or rise of the triad and there was britney spears and pepsi generation next poo poo all over the place Ok I searched for it and it looks like it was just called worlds.com, search for that on youtube
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Buttcoin purse posted:That's a name I recognize from their old DOS VR demo: Oh holy hell yes. This is forever burned into my brain. I think I got it from a The Software Labs catalog, on floppy. The early 90s were a magical time, and over so quickly. Remember that this ^^ to Jurassic Park's IRIX filesystem navigator thing to Toy Story spanned the length of one (1) high school career.
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Negrostrike posted:Oh we're gonna talk about 3D virtual worlds and chat rooms now? drat that woman in the middle one is hella tall and I bet her name is Millsy.
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Buttcoin purse posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xht5KXInD_s
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I just rediscovered this in a closet. I used to play this for hours. 
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I had that and some similarly themed baseball game as a kid. I didn't have instructions with them and didn't have even a vague idea how football or baseball worked so they were basically just boxes that beeped. I should dig them out and get beeped at.
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Buttcoin purse posted:That's a name I recognize from their old DOS VR demo: This was on a compilation CD called "Virtual Reality Madness!" that I bought sometime around I think 1993.
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Three-Phase posted:This was on a compilation CD called "Virtual Reality Madness!" that I bought sometime around I think 1993. Did it only have the demo thing that I posted? archive.org has what appears to be the 1996 version of the same thing and it sounds like it actually has the Superscape tool for creating virtual environments! I wonder how much time I could have wasted on that as a kid? Oh well back to playing Minecraft 
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Buttcoin purse posted:Did it only have the demo thing that I posted? archive.org has what appears to be the 1996 version of the same thing and it sounds like it actually has the Superscape tool for creating virtual environments! I wonder how much time I could have wasted on that as a kid? Oh well back to playing Minecraft Oh yeah I mean it came with a cool book and everything. It did have a lot of interesting software (including the photo morphing stuff) that was a bit over my head back then.
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Superscape made 3D Construction Kit 1 and 2 as well, which were pretty neat tools. Someone made a music video with it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebs-FCmHqhc
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Negrostrike posted:Someone made a music video with it.
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Negrostrike posted:Superscape made 3D Construction Kit 1 and 2 as well, which were pretty neat tools. We had this  VR demo from Superscape:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xht5KXInD_s Imagine playing around with this on an oldass 386.
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It was a newass 386 at the time 
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It really wasn't though, this was in '93 or '94, on a PC built from parts that my dad's co-workers just binned. I think it was one of the older ones, clocked at 12Mhz. With, iunno, like a kilobyte of memory?
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