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Netscape was the best browser because you could call it Nutscrape.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Netscape was the best browser because you could call it Nutscrape. Back when you'd rarely see Microsoft spelled other than Micro$oft.
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Jun 21, 2021 05:16
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Imagined posted:Back when you'd rarely see Microsoft spelled other than Micro$oft. I swear I used IE longer than I should have just because of people who did this.
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Jun 21, 2021 05:35
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Jun 21, 2021 06:14
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Imagined posted:Back when you'd rarely see Microsoft spelled other than Micro$oft. It's true, though! They like to make money!
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Jun 21, 2021 06:21
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If you didn’t have your Windows 98 desktop shortcut renamed “Internet Exploder” were you even a nerd a quarter century ago??
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Jun 21, 2021 06:35
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I'm not afraid to admit that I put masking tape over Microsoft on my joystick and wrote "MICRO$HAFT" on the tape.
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Jun 21, 2021 07:04
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Please, the browser of choice in the 90s was the Internet Shambler. I loved the animated gif of the Shambler as the loading animation.
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Jun 21, 2021 08:53
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nostalgic for that old Micro$haft Winblows Internut Exploder anger
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Jun 21, 2021 08:55
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I remember a simpler time, a time when when Bill Gates was universally hated because of Microsoft's business practices and because Windows 95 was unstable, not because he wants to give us all mind control vaccines through 5G networks and make us believe in global warming. I think I had that picture as my desktop wallpaper in 2001 or so 
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Jun 21, 2021 09:38
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barbecue at the folks posted:I remember a simpler time, a time when when Bill Gates was universally hated because of Microsoft's business practices and because Windows 95 was unstable, not because he wants to give us all mind control vaccines through 5G networks and make us believe in global warming. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-the-ballad-of-bill-83715310/ if you want to do a deep dive on all of Gates' crimes and lovely behavior
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Jun 21, 2021 13:32
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Jun 21, 2021 14:49
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I can remember a time when my preferred browser on my Mac was Internet Explorer because you could pull up a great Lycos search in a sidebar.
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Jun 21, 2021 17:24
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I'm not sure what browser my dad used back then, but he definitely had Bonzi Buddy and 5 other toolbars installed.
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Jun 21, 2021 17:28
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Hey, I'm so old, I remember when Microsoft was the evil monopoly.
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Jun 21, 2021 18:13
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Explosionface posted:I can remember a time when my preferred browser on my Mac was Internet Explorer because you could pull up a great Lycos search in a sidebar. I used IE on mac because you could swap between open windows with command-` This being the dark time before tabs. For that matter, classic Mac OS belongs in here. In general it was more stable than the windows equivalent, but when something went down, it tended to bring the whole system down.
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Jun 21, 2021 19:48
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The "restart" button in the corner of the dialogue box telling you the system has crashed, but you can't press it because the whole thing is frozen.
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Jun 21, 2021 19:53
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That was my experience. The windows machines would at least give you some sort of error code for a split second before rebooting so you could maybe see what the issue is. Whenever a mac crashed, it would just freeze up for seemingly no reason.
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Jun 21, 2021 20:01
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Right in the feels. Pressing F to pay my respects to Netscape. Johnny Aztec posted:Dear Obsolete And/Or Failed Technology Thread,  I still own this big ol' beast of a 16x DVD burner from circa 2006. Today's DVD burners are considerably smaller, thinner and rely solely on USB instead of needing a reasonably-sized power brick like this one does. I rarely burn CDs or DVDs, but I'll probably stick with this thing as long as it's capable of burning DVDs properly. Just noticed that $30 gets you a decent external DVD burner, but Blu-ray burners are still hilariously expensive. I'm not paying $160-$250 for that poo poo.
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Jun 22, 2021 00:04
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I remember how excited I was when I got my plextor CDR drive with BURN PROOF technology so my burned PS1 games were actually playable!!!!
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Jun 22, 2021 00:41
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90s Solo Cup posted:Right in the feels. Pressing F to pay my respects to Netscape. drat, I ordered a BD-ROM for my desktop 10 years ago. And a USB BD burner a few years after that. They both cost less than $100. Plus the BD burner has that funny 2-headed USB cable because it needed extra power.
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Jun 22, 2021 01:41
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Man I used to have a 3X NEC external SCSI cd-rom that was formerly owned by NASA. Had the asset tag and everything. Wtf did I do with it????
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Jun 22, 2021 04:37
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AlternateAccount posted:Man I used to have a 3X NEC external SCSI cd-rom that was formerly owned by NASA. Had the asset tag and everything. Wtf did I do with it???? I don't know but I have one too that I got for my DEC Alpha multia workstation when I went to college in like '96. Does yours have the rounded door and use caddies too?
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Jun 22, 2021 11:58
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One Nut Wonder posted:drat, I ordered a BD-ROM for my desktop 10 years ago. And a USB BD burner a few years after that. They both cost less than $100. Plus the BD burner has that funny 2-headed USB cable because it needed extra power. I bought a BD-Burner recently so that I could burn some upscale versions of old local wrestling shows and also so I could watch blu-rays on my laptop at work (as I’m one of those people that still loves physical media) it cost way more than expected, the write up said it could be connected to a tv I got excited about this but clearly didn’t read it right, it doesn’t act as a stand-alone player instead it connects to USB and acts as a data drive so you can play video files off data discs.
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Jun 22, 2021 13:13
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azurite posted:I guess I don't get what's so egregious about the latest Firefox UI changes that made everyone so mad. It's not the Firefox 3.0 UI, which was the perfect browser UI and never should have been changed. 
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Jun 22, 2021 14:29
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Powershift posted:like 8 years ago in this thread there was a discussion about the keypad on ford vehicles being obsolete I'm so jealous of those things! For whatever reason, they never put them on the Euro Fords, even the high end stuff. I'd love to be able to open my car without a key. The closest I came was a Mitsubishi I had which had been parked in London for 15 seconds and therefore the door lock had been ripped out. You could lock and unlock the car by twisting the barrel with your hand. It was really useful! e: I probably said the same thing in this thread like 8 years ago
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Jun 22, 2021 15:19
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rndmnmbr posted:It's not the Firefox 3.0 UI, which was the perfect browser UI and never should have been changed. "Hmm, when was 3.0, what exactly was that UI... Oh." It's exactly the UI I work hard to recreate every time Mozilla updates and changes things around.
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Jun 22, 2021 15:28
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Rexxed posted:I don't know but I have one too that I got for my DEC Alpha multia workstation when I went to college in like '96. Does yours have the rounded door and use caddies too? Naw it was this one, very Space Agency looking. https://www.recycledgoods.com/nec-cdr-400-3x-scsi-external-plus-multispin-cd-rom-drive-w-power-supply/
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Jun 22, 2021 15:37
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Horace posted:I'm so jealous of those things! For whatever reason, they never put them on the Euro Fords, even the high end stuff. I'd love to be able to open my car without a key. The closest I came was a Mitsubishi I had which had been parked in London for 15 seconds and therefore the door lock had been ripped out. You could lock and unlock the car by twisting the barrel with your hand. It was really useful! Since each key covers two digits and the code has four digits, a certain sequence of numbers will try every possible combination, and takes about 20 minutes to go through.
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Jun 22, 2021 15:52
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evobatman posted:Since each key covers two digits and the code has four digits, a certain sequence of numbers will try every possible combination, and takes about 20 minutes to go through. Physically tearing the lock barrel out of my Mitsubishi's doorskin probably took less than 20 minutes.
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Jun 22, 2021 16:01
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Citroën used an immobilizer system with a keypad located in front of the gear stick, in the 90s/early 2000s. It felt kinda secret agent/K.I.T.T. cool the first 2-3 times, then it just got tedious.
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Jun 22, 2021 16:18
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Yes, I have experience with those. The annoying thing was having to input the code every single time you started the engine, even if you only stopped it for a few seconds. At least Citroen put the keypad in front of you. The Peugeot 405 keypad (same one) was underneath a little plastic door, underneath the centre armrest. Behind you.
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Jun 22, 2021 22:51
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I guess that will get you to learn how to use the clutch.
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Jun 22, 2021 23:34
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Wacky Delly posted:I used IE on mac because you could swap between open windows with command-` This being the dark time before tabs. Ah, the joys of cooperative multitasking, where the program, not the operating system, decides when it's timeslice is up. Also, you had to staticly allocate memory to applications at launch, which was just the stupidest design decision I've ever heard of, in front of whatever "System resources" were in Windows 3.11.
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Jun 22, 2021 23:38
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I burn so much poo poo I'm actually on my second blu-ray burner. Not only do I hoard a bunch of digital poo poo, it's actually reliable backup almost as good as m-disc if you're using non-organic media. It's me, I'm the tech relic.
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Jun 23, 2021 00:44
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AlternateAccount posted:Naw it was this one, very Space Agency looking. Oh those are awesome, I think they had a couple at the first computer summer job I did. I mostly put token ring cards into PCs and set them up.
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Jun 23, 2021 05:20
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Why not just be properly insured and never lock your car?
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Jun 23, 2021 05:31
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Horace posted:I'm so jealous of those things! For whatever reason, they never put them on the Euro Fords, even the high end stuff. I'd love to be able to open my car without a key. The closest I came was a Mitsubishi I had which had been parked in London for 15 seconds and therefore the door lock had been ripped out. You could lock and unlock the car by twisting the barrel with your hand. It was really useful! They make tap sensors that allow you to tap front/rear window to unlock your car. A friend installed one in his bmw 325i in the late 90s early 2000s and it seemed pretty slick at the time. https://magnadyne.com/magnadyne-7960tl-tapcode-keyless-entry-system/
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Jun 23, 2021 06:42
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This is not necessarily obsolete, but I recently bought an 8 W laser that can pop balloons, and set poo poo on fire. It's the same wavelength that Blu-ray burners use. Order 10 BD-Rs and gonna see what happens. And yes, I have safety goggles.
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Jun 23, 2021 06:46
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One Nut Wonder posted:This is not necessarily obsolete, but I recently bought an 8 W laser that can pop balloons, and set poo poo on fire. It's the same wavelength that Blu-ray burners use. Order 10 BD-Rs and gonna see what happens. And yes, I have safety goggles. Back in the late 80s/early 90s I worked with a guy doing laser shows. Product releases, raves, TV spots and so on. The main unit back then was an 8W argon tube laser (blue/green). About 6 feet long, 3-phase power, water-cooled (not a closed loop - run cold water through it and out into a drain as it comes out quite warm) and it weighed a poo poo-ton. We had a signal driver to make cool Lissajous patterns or used an Amiga for animations/text/etc. Anyway, I'm really only mentioning this as I expect your 8W laser fits in a bag you can sling over your shoulder and runs off standard mains power.
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