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It seems crazy to remember now but there was a time up until the early 2000s when most auctions on eBay didn't have pictures, just a text description. Unless you were selling something that fit on a flatbed scanner or had one of these early lovely digital cameras, it was a huge pain in the rear end to get digital images of whatever you were selling so most people just didn't bother.
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Haha remember when displaying a “JPEG” file in a browser required a “helper app” xpm forever
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Mar 17, 2019 03:26
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Cojawfee posted:When he was talking about how low resolution it was, I said to myself "320x240" and was still mind blown when he said the resolution. Lol I did the exact same thing
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Mar 17, 2019 03:41
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Data Graham posted:Haha remember when displaying a “JPEG” file in a browser required a “helper app” No, but I remember being mad when I had to get a new graphics viewer program because the one I used only supported .gif and like ugh who the hell knows, .pcx and .bmp, and suddenly people were using .JPG I am pretty sure a similar thing happened with .png. Oh and then .webm. My entire life has just been frustratingly finding a new viewer for a new graphics file
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Mar 17, 2019 03:49
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I am not old enough to have experienced these problems despite completely understanding everything talked about.
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Mar 17, 2019 03:58
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Dr. Quarex posted:No, but I remember being mad when I had to get a new graphics viewer program because the one I used only supported .gif and like ugh who the hell knows, .pcx and .bmp, and suddenly people were using .JPG I was excited when I first learned about PNGs. No artifacts like a gif, but lots of colors like a jpg. Super cool.
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Mar 17, 2019 04:04
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This made me remember IrfanView, which I haven't thought about at all since the 90s. It looks just like I remember it, but it's apparently still receiving regular updates. 
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Mar 17, 2019 04:29
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:This made me remember IrfanView, which I haven't thought about at all since the 90s. It looks just like I remember it, but it's apparently still receiving regular updates. And it's still better than the standard Windows image viewer.
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Mar 17, 2019 04:31
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I used IrfanView a little while ago to mess with some weird jpeg metadata setting on photos because the Sony digital picture frame my wife had was very specific about it
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Mar 17, 2019 04:33
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Dr. Quarex posted:My entire life has just been frustratingly finding a new viewer for a new graphics file This but video codecs for a good long while.
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Mar 17, 2019 04:37
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Trabant posted:This but video codecs for a good long while. kazaa/k-lite mega codec pack
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Mar 17, 2019 05:31
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I still don't know why I resisted so hard against VLC. No thanks, I'd rather install this mega codec pack and media player classic like a dumbass.
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Mar 17, 2019 05:34
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Cojawfee posted:I still don't know why I resisted so hard against VLC. No thanks, I'd rather install this mega codec pack and media player classic like a dumbass. There was a pretty long overlap of time where MPC had moved on to mostly using built-in decoders instead of dumbass codec packs but VLC, while compatible with tons of formats, still ran like total poo poo on everything.
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Mar 17, 2019 05:55
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I feel like I had strong feelings that GomPlayer was better than VLC, but I definitely use VLC exclusively now. Well, except I also freely acknowledge still putting IrfanView on nearly every system I have ever used because indeed it is still the best. Somehow managing to avoid becoming needlessly complicated overall despite having roughly 18,000 options you can set
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Mar 17, 2019 05:57
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Cojawfee posted:I still don't know why I resisted so hard against VLC. No thanks, I'd rather install this mega codec pack and media player classic like a dumbass. It's the only media player I installed where clicking pause didn't immediately pause the content, which alone made it too irritating to use, though there was plenty else that I disliked. That was years ago, and I'm sure I could make it work like MPC with settings and plugins, but why bother? media player related content so this isn't just a gripe: what was once my favourite windows media player skin, unbelievably https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQCfw0-6qKQ and this thing https://twitter.com/y2k_aesthetic/status/1104919722204659712
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Mar 17, 2019 06:05
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Known Lecher posted:It seems crazy to remember now but there was a time up until the early 2000s when most auctions on eBay didn't have pictures, just a text description. Unless you were selling something that fit on a flatbed scanner or had one of these early lovely digital cameras, it was a huge pain in the rear end to get digital images of whatever you were selling so most people just didn't bother. It was a huge thing when eBay was able to get its search feature to search the titles and listings of each product. For the first auction I won on eBay, I called the seller on the telephone and gave him my credit card number that way. PayPal hadn't been incorporated into listings yet and this was around 2000-2001.
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Mar 17, 2019 06:38
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I remember buying stuff on eBay 20 years ago and you’d have to send the seller a money order I bought a record from a guy and it turns out he lived near me and he just stopped by my house and knocked on the door
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Mar 17, 2019 07:53
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Keith Atherton posted:I remember buying stuff on eBay 20 years ago and you’d have to send the seller a money order Do you still have the lampshade you made out of his skin?
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Mar 17, 2019 08:15
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I had the plugin for MSN Messenger that would show what you were listening/watching on Windows Media Player. All my friends knew my taste in porn one day. EDIT: Just found a VHS that is the Rage simulcast of Triple J's Hottest 100 in 1999. It's amazingly good. Humphreys has a new favorite as of 11:09 on Mar 17, 2019 |
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Mar 17, 2019 10:59
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Humphreys posted:I had the plugin for MSN Messenger that would show what you were listening/watching on Windows Media Player. That was a fear of mine, especially when Winamp kept trying to take over as the default video player for me. Facebook should bring that 'what you are listening to' back.
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Mar 17, 2019 11:12
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The hours I spent fiddling with "Now playing" scripts for mIRC 
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Mar 17, 2019 12:12
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Keith Atherton posted:I remember buying stuff on eBay 20 years ago and you’d have to send the seller a money order eBay was quite labour intensive before the checkout and Paypal. I remember having to email the buyer, wait for a cheque to arrive, go to town to pay in the cheque, then wait for the cheque to clear before sending the item. People would frequently just send a cheque with no note so I'd have to comb through my recent sales and hope I could match the amount to something. I didn't have a chequebook so I had to pay with postal orders too. Internet shopping, so convenient and futuristic! *queues in post office for 25 minutes to pay with fistful of postal orders with penny stamps on them*
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Mar 17, 2019 13:35
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I still use irfanview as it’s easier to resize images in it en mase. Also I use MPC for some things in the theme park business because it has a separate play and pause buttons unlike VLC which has a combined play pause button
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Mar 17, 2019 14:31
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VLC still sucks monkey nuts, MPC is still better
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Mar 17, 2019 21:27
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Last Chance posted:VLC still sucks monkey nuts, MPC is still better What's wrong with it? It plays things from my media server which is all I ask of it.
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Mar 17, 2019 21:39
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I've used VLC for years, it works well and is also cross-platform, so I don't have to gently caress around with different players on different operating systems.
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Mar 17, 2019 21:44
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Last Chance posted:VLC still sucks monkey nuts, MPC is still better Yeah it still has worse performance and lags with play/pause input and doesn't seem to handle deinterlacing at all for some reason which is really annoying for DVD rips e: I installed MPC-BE because apparently the original has ended development and the UI is ugly as sin and I seem to be missing various playback related options so I'm seriously considering just installing the last MPC-HC build instead
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Mar 17, 2019 21:49
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I always have (since Windows 98SE) cheap ready-made Windows boxes and I've never had performance issues with VLC. I understand this is worksformefuckyou but one would think performance is one thing that would be pretty consistent. Curious! E: I don't mean I used VLC with W98SE.
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Mar 17, 2019 21:55
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Jesus, I haven't moved on from 200x at all, I still use Winamp, MPC-HC and irfanview.
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Mar 17, 2019 21:58
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I was never an MPC user because I'm not really a video enthusiast and VLC works fine for me but Winamp and Irfanview are solid no-bullshit media apps and I'll never judge anyone for using them in any decade. I was more a foobar2000 type for music though, but I'm too lazy to even bother setting it up anymore now that I have a Google Play sub. I miss its 'shuffle albums' feature dearly though. Edit: it seems Winamp has been acquired and changed a bit since v5 so it might not be the no-bullshit program I remember anymore Mak0rz has a new favorite as of 22:06 on Mar 17, 2019 |
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Mar 17, 2019 22:02
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The art of making a useful desktop music player died with Winamp I need something to play my loving mp3 and have a play / pause button I don't want something that takes up the whole screen, tries to build libraries of everything on my disc and show me a novel and a´picture slideshow about the song I'm listening to. 
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Mar 17, 2019 22:24
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steinrokkan posted:The art of making a useful desktop music player died with Winamp Have you heard of VLC?
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mng posted:Jesus, I haven't moved on from 200x at all, I still use Winamp, MPC-HC and irfanview. I was going to say that if I hadn't abandoned Windows a long time ago I'd still probably be using ancient crap like Paint Shop Pro and ACDSee, but I just googled them and apparently they both still exist as high-class image editing suites aimed at professional photographers. 
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Mar 17, 2019 22:34
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VLC has been fine for years now. It pauses instantly and can even go frame-by-frame. Some programs that are still great despite hardly changing over 15 years: Irfanview Audacity Foobar2000 VLC Notepad++
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Mak0rz posted:Edit: it seems Winamp has been acquired and changed a bit since v5 so it might not be the no-bullshit program I remember anymore
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Mar 17, 2019 22:36
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wa27 posted:VLC has been fine for years now. It pauses instantly and can even go frame-by-frame. Audacity is great, and like VLC has the benefit of being cross-platform. On Windows I almost always end up installing Irfanview - it really is a great and reliable image viewer.
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Mar 17, 2019 22:41
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I think that the only reason I stopped installing IrfanView on everything was that things got to where I could display most stuff I needed to in a web browser, then by the time 2000 rolled around I knew about stuff like ImageMagick and The GIMP. If I really had to put together a photo slideshow for some reason, I'd probably end up back on IrfanView again.
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Mar 17, 2019 23:27
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I went with FastStone Image Viewer as my ACDSee v3 replacement. It's as close to ACDSee as I've been able to get and still being updated. Not perfect, mind you.
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Mar 17, 2019 23:38
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Horace posted:I was big into online auctions in the late 90s/early 00s. I bought a capture card and took screen grabs from an old camcorder's live feed. While the quality was exactly what you're imagining, it was absolutely amazing being able to take a photo and immediately upload it and add it to a listing. It was one of those "this is the future!!!" moments. Besides, with enough light and a tripod the images weren't really that bad. I have a parallel port capture card I got at a white elephant gift exchange in the present decade. Might be this model. I don’t have it at hand for obvious reasons. 
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