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When ever I feel like poking the bears in the VHS FB groups I tag an admin with this video.
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Humphreys posted:When ever I feel like poking the bears in the VHS FB groups But enough about your love life.
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Humphreys posted:I like the ones where he explains coding issues porting one of his games. I’ll give him this, he does make fun games for retro platforms.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:But enough about your love life. You're confusing with the BDSM FB groups.
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spookykid posted:I feel like 8-bit/ate-poo poo guy is just making videos where he's straight up not knowing what he's doing or what the hell he's even talking about, and personally that's just a big flapping red flag. If you want to do a scary-eye-poppin' take of your own, go read the guy praising him on the gun video posted where the guy is like "just because of a SEALED conviction from 1981 I cannot open carry, thank you for your helpful advice for me and everyone else unjustly kept from doing so"
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my turn in the barrel posted:To be fair to Ate poo poo Guy, that airguns thing is on a different channel. Not sure if his open carry poo poo that constantly gets brought up is as well? I don't get bad vibes either, but I mostly watch LGR because he just seems like a really decent guy. His enthusiasm for the tech he looks at really comes through in his videos. DistroTube is a channel I've been watching recently because he has a lot of great information about Linux. DT will occasionally stray into complaining about "cancel culture" but my policy is to ignore those and just pay attention to the Linux content. Otherwise, he seems like an OK dude.
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lobsterminator posted:Who the heck goes running in jeans?  
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my turn in the barrel posted:Not an ate poo poo superfan so I can't say I've seen all of his videos but I honestly haven't gotten any terrible vibes everyone mentions about him. But at the same time I just don't feel right watching a dude that parrots "PLANDEMIC SHEEPLE FORCED UNJUST MANDATE" poo poo, or who parades around with his insecurity strapped to his back while we have school shootings every month. I just don't have the energy for that stupidity.
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I am watching Company Man's video on Gateway, and just suddenly remembered for the first time in 25 years the time I was talking to a Gateway customer service guy and during a lull in the conversation (probably reinstalling Windows 95) he overheard me talking to my other buddy in the room about IRC, and he told me to go into #hottub and tell them that I was on the phone with "Big Jack" or something like that. Equally interesting to the fact that I absolutely remember doing it is that I have no memory of what happened as a result. Equally likely I was horrified and left or it was so incredibly boring I never thought of it again Maybe I am mistaken, as I have not talked to any tech support on the phone since like 2006, but I feel like a support person having that kind of conversation with a customer is as much a tech relic as anything else in this thread now
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Pretty sure you were talking to a tech support ghost.
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After watching his videos on AST Research, there might have been a decent chance my dad or I had the honor of talking to the Ate-poo poo-Guy regarding either the Tandy 1000 or the AST 486 I had. I also might have talked to Metal Jesus because I was one of the people stupid enough to buy Outpost.
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I worked as a computer tech in like 2000? at Best Buy and our best guy left for a job at the local Gateway store. We were happy for him. Wonder how that worked out...
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Desert Bus posted:I worked as a computer tech in like 2000? at Best Buy and our best guy left for a job at the local Gateway store. We were happy for him. Wonder how that worked out... That guy was... Fredrick Pohl! He wrote a game about it.
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Got Browservice working well! I could've sworn someone made a more SA-focused HTTP proxy but I don't remember who or what thread. Also no idea if anyone else in this thread even has a Libretto but I've made a new fansite/resource site.  It took me forever to find some of the stuff on there so I decided to compile everything into one place. Also has a decent page for various services for getting internet stuff going on vintage PCs.libretto.rocks I don't like to talk about the Phoenix project for AIM because it's run by InfoWars shitholes, but there's a really good unrelated MSN Messenger service out called escargot (they're working on their own AIM backend as well): https://escargot.chat  e: Also, want to recommend this VGA capture card:  https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001335071572.html Image is a bit oversharpened and crunchy, but for $25 it's a great deal. Though it does have a hilarious USB A-to-A input. Though to be clear, the above screenshot wasn't taken on it, but this one was
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snorch posted:Pretty sure you were talking to a tech support ghost. * Now talking in #hottub * <Drquarex> Big jack sent me <youngbody> Did you say Big Jack? <Drquarex> Yeah he just helped me out <YoungTruck> That's impossible <YoungTruck> Big Jack, he's <bandaidear> it was ten years ago on a night just like tonight <bandaidear> tonight's the anniversary <bandaidear> worst blue screen i ever seen
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Phoenix Project would be up my alley if it weren't tied to Sandy Hook denying fuckstains. Goddamn it.
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FilthyImp posted:Phoenix Project would be up my alley if it weren't tied to Sandy Hook denying fuckstains. Goddamn it. Yeah I looked up their site and it has an infowars news ticker running along the top. Welp.
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snorch posted:Pretty sure you were talking to a tech support ghost. flavor.flv posted:
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flavor.flv posted:
Big Jack and Phantom 404
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FilthyImp posted:Phoenix Project would be up my alley if it weren't tied to Sandy Hook denying fuckstains. Goddamn it. Escargot is unrelated to them and is working on their own AIM backend, but it's still in testing.
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FilthyImp posted:Phoenix Project would be up my alley if it weren't tied to Sandy Hook denying fuckstains. Goddamn it. wait, what? the book?
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Lady Radia posted:wait, what? the book? That was my first thought too, and I couldn't even find a website for the book. But no. It's a project called AIM Phoenix. And I can confirm that there's an actual goddamn Infowars scroller at the top of their Geocities-esque page. One of the actual entries was "Moneybomb Infowars 2022" or something.
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Kazy posted:Got Browservice working well! I could've sworn someone made a more SA-focused HTTP proxy but I don't remember who or what thread. It probably was me. I have https://github.com/drasticactions/Awful.OldWeb which I haven't touched in forever, since I was trying various ways to make it more generic. Basically, while I like the Browservice thing for what it's trying to do, I don't want the "modern" web on old browsers, I want to get new content running natively as intended. At some point I'll actually launch something again, once I can figure out what the base level service actually is and what platforms I wanna target, lol. 
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Drastic Actions posted:It probably was me. I have https://github.com/drasticactions/Awful.OldWeb which I haven't touched in forever, since I was trying various ways to make it more generic. Basically, while I like the Browservice thing for what it's trying to do, I don't want the "modern" web on old browsers, I want to get new content running natively as intended. At some point I'll actually launch something again, once I can figure out what the base level service actually is and what platforms I wanna target, lol. Yes, this was it! I was going to say "I think it was by Drastic Actions" but I wasn't 100% sure. I wonder if it still works. I don't really know much about building this sort of stuff myself, but I'll probably give it a go sometime.
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Talking about old web stuff, I have been helping a friend clear out his old computer shop and was given this (as well as some cool old hardware):  Sealed copy of Netscape Navigator 1.1
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Representing the future of the world wide web as a compass being held in an orientation that makes it not work while standing in front of a cactus is some seriously prophetic and heavy poo poo, dude.
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Literally every other 90s representation of the web was a kid in a baseball cap surfing on a computer keyboard
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Sweevo posted:Literally every other 90s representation of the web was a kid in a baseball cap surfing on a computer keyboard Wrong! Sometimes it was business man in a suit wearing sunglasses.
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lobsterminator posted:Wrong! Sometimes it was business man in a suit wearing sunglasses. By the pool.
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Sweevo posted:Literally every other 90s representation of the web was a kid in a baseball cap surfing on a computer keyboard  hmmm... looks like you're granny-clocking the cpu hardcore... you surf the 'net with this ram? Heh. *frantically types on keyboard* Wha--what are you doing I'm using a backdoor to hack the NSA aaaaaand..... there.... you're now the valedictorian. And you have few extra hundred bucks on your ATM.
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New CRD dropped https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZinM9XFoIg
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That photo just took me back to feeling like I had pulled off the heist of the century by getting a free copy of Netscape Navigator from my father's university in like 199...5? I have a hard time remembering what I even used before that, besides Lynx anyway. Who took me to h t t p colon slash slash double-u double-u double-u boobs dot com in 1993?!? WHO WERE YOU, BROWSER?! (probably Mosaic)
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I love how that URL string with all the ornamentation just came across to normal people (especially spoken aloud over the phone) like some kind of magic incantation, and if you were able to memorize the http :// part and the .com part with all those funny keys you have to hunt and peck on the keyboard for you were some kind of boy genius wizard Now it's just invisible even when right in front of you
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:New CRD dropped Relic status-- questionable.
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Qwijib0 posted:Relic status-- questionable. That kit is current regional tv studio level. Some of my local tv stations broadcasts in 576i which is less of what those sdi inputs allow. Edit: a summary search with a freeze frame of the rear of that tricaster identifies it as a early 8000/860 series (early units had usb2.0 only like the one in the video, later builds had some usb3.0) Jim Silly-Balls posted:Standard def video is a tech relic That thing can handle full hd SlowBloke has a new favorite as of 20:37 on Apr 20, 2022 |
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Data Graham posted:I love how that URL string with all the ornamentation just came across to normal people (especially spoken aloud over the phone) like some kind of magic incantation, and if you were able to memorize the http :// part and the .com part with all those funny keys you have to hunt and peck on the keyboard for you were some kind of boy genius wizard There are still radio and TV ads that use "backslash" when speaking a URL, as in "visit company dot com backslash rewards". They've had over a quarter century to learn this poo poo. 
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