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rndmnmbr posted:Once upon a time, mIRC would occasionally pop up a nag screen to pay for it, but was otherwise perfectly operational if you didn't. The day I installed a copy and learned that it now cripples functionality after the trial period was a sad day. I finally paid for mIRC back in 2003. I found out while trying to reinstall it a few years ago that surprise! Your keys actually expire.
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Last Chance posted:I bought the messaging app Trillian once what I wouldn't give for a modern day equivalent of trillian so I didn't have to deal with slack, discord, and teams.
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i feel like there was at some point an adblocker that would just replace all the ads with photos of cats or something i suppose that might still exist too
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Qwijib0 posted:what I wouldn't give for a modern day equivalent of trillian so I didn't have to deal with slack, discord, and teams. Has anyone used Pidgin since ever? I just read that it's still in active development and seems like it has plugins for all of the above: https://pidgin.im/plugins/?publisher=all&query=&type=
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:I finally paid for mIRC back in 2003. I found out while trying to reinstall it a few years ago that surprise! Your keys actually expire. They didn't until, I think, 2022 or so. They were lifetime licenses prior to that.
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barbecue at the folks posted:Has anyone used Pidgin since ever? I just read that it's still in active development and seems like it has plugins for all of the above: https://pidgin.im/plugins/?publisher=all&query=&type= I’ve used libpurple plenty to bridge some of those services to IRC clients
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My old work used Pidgin and Jitsi for internal IMs via XMPP, though I’m sure they have since switched to something a little more hip. I was a Trillian man myself; just like the ICQ “uh-oh!” its message sounds are forever etched into my brain.
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https://github.com/peterkvt80/vbit2 this is brilliant https://github.com/ali1234/raspi-teletext The real magic is that it can run alongside the normal desktop, I've set up the raspberry pi to connect to start vlc and start streaming a pretend tv channel from ErsatzTV when it boots so I can toggle between teletext and old tv shows. 
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barbecue at the folks posted:Has anyone used Pidgin since ever? I just read that it's still in active development and seems like it has plugins for all of the above: https://pidgin.im/plugins/?publisher=all&query=&type= Up until a few years ago when I stopped playing Eve Online we used it for corp communications
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Humphreys posted:Up until a few years ago when I stopped playing Eve Online we used it for corp communications I misread this at first and thought you used Eve Online for corporate communications.
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PurpleXVI posted:I misread this at first and thought you used Eve Online for corporate communications. Spreadsheets in OfficeSpace 
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Humphreys posted:Up until a few years ago when I stopped playing Eve Online we used it for corp communications The best platform for team meetings is sitting around a campfire in RDR2, or maybe playing poker in RDR2.
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lobsterminator posted:The best platform for team meetings is sitting around a campfire in RDR2, or maybe playing poker in RDR2. Mining in ZZZR for me
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Not as old as mirc or flashfxp, but the talk of paying for old programs made me look up when I paid for a copy of cFosSpeed, it was back in 2009. It really did make a difference back in the day re-shaping your internet traffic somehow to make things like browsing the web feel speedy when you were maxing out a torrent too.
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My brown Zune that turns green on the edges. With super dust mode on that will not change no matter what dust wipe I use on it. I love how ugly it is and the sole reason why I keep buying odd color devices like the salmon colored Pixel 6pro. loving neat features at the time like sharing an mp3 or album directly over wifi to another Zune user directly. Also listening to the radio over its internal FM/AM radio and if you have wifi connection , would look up the album name/song and book mark it for later by recording the time/location/station and looking up the radio charts/logs remember, this came out before iPhones and putting metatags on mp3 was something a user using an iTunes / mp3tag had to do. If anyone has any info on Zune hacking I can extract all the songs but the pictures stored on it can't get out because the auth servers to access them are dead and gone. Mainly a pic of goons that played EVE Online on the Potomac River after the corp off lined a huge cheating alliance.
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The only thing I really remember about zunes is everyone saying 'it's brown because it's poop, lol'
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TOOT BOOT posted:The only thing I really remember about zunes is everyone saying 'it's brown because it's poop, lol' It was kickass. I had the first iPod video but after iTunes decided to delete my entire mp3 library because *reasons* that made me go down the no-Apple devices ever.
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r u ready to WALK posted:https://github.com/peterkvt80/vbit2 this is brilliant Didn’t people find that recordings from tv had the teletext information saved too before? That’s so cool, I would totally connect to a server from an ansi capable client on my modern computer and zip around Ceefax and Teletext and recreate some random day from 1996 or something.
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Sep 26, 2023 03:50
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A couple of A/V relics for you: https://i.imgur.com/EjqZvWx.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/gJkhjaB.mp4
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Sep 26, 2023 05:53
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WTF? Where was the GSM incoming call noise?
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I never really had trouble with the quality of headphone jacks in the 90s. Only after dropping my walkman cycling at speed on asphalt, did it have trouble with the jack. Still sad about that - that walkman was the final model Sony made. I still have it, and it has an actual proper service documentation - but it's clipped together with about 10 tiny tabs so it's close to impossible to open without putting a ton of screwdriver marks on the plastic. A spudger isn't strong enough. EL BROMANCE posted:Didn’t people find that recordings from tv had the teletext information saved too before? That’s so cool, I would totally connect to a server from an ansi capable client on my modern computer and zip around Ceefax and Teletext and recreate some random day from 1996 or something. Correct, the teletext data is about 50% there on a video tape. So you need to have a page pass by multiple times and combine the data to get the full page. The folks who were working on it should be findable. I was amazed that when i opened teletext from a tape in the 90s, that i could look back at (slightly messed up) teletext pages of months back!
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LimaBiker posted:I never really had trouble with the quality of headphone jacks in the 90s. It was not a jack problem, it was the shitass headphone cable that broke.
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And it still happens with cheap headphones to this day.
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Real connoisseurs use milkdrop. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6UXKyz4nOfI
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gently caress you corded headphones, you have no more power over me! I completely get the people who invest in higher quality stuff with a replaceable cord, even the brand name phones don't last as much as you imagine.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Didn’t people find that recordings from tv had the teletext information saved too before? That’s so cool, I would totally connect to a server from an ansi capable client on my modern computer and zip around Ceefax and Teletext and recreate some random day from 1996 or something. They sure did! https://www.teletextarchive.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy23geJFMUQ And if you want to poke around on that fake ceefax there's a web viewer here with more history about the project https://www.nathanmediaservices.co.uk/ceefax/ r u ready to WALK has a new favorite as of 11:28 on Sep 26, 2023 |
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r u ready to WALK posted:They sure did! I remember noticing that back then when watching VHS recordings, but there was rarely any intact pages because the VHS quality was so bad at least on our recorder. But you did see some glitchy, but recognizable pages.
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I feel INCREDIBLY seen here.
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All that insane amount of horsepower in even a cellphone these days, but no new milkdrop versions 
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Sentient Data posted:All that insane amount of horsepower in even a cellphone these days, but no new milkdrop versions there's a milkdrop 3 and it runs independently of everything else, reminds me of the original with a bunch of packs added It's alright
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TOOT BOOT posted:And it still happens with cheap headphones to this day. I knew my time putting up with that was done because later that week I just cut the right headphone off when I could no longer get it to register and used my headphone for a few days until I thought "maybe the goddamn wireless people are onto something"
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That's me every time I try to get my headphones plugged in on an airplane. You'd think someone jammed a 1/4" plug in there. Or they have the ground in the wrong spot so it doesn't work with a 4 conductor plug.
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Thinking about those old airplane headset cords that were just... tubes.
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EVIL Gibson posted:loving neat features at the time like sharing an mp3 or album directly over wifi to another Zune user directly. That’s called “squirting”
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Dick Trauma posted:Thinking about those old airplane headset cords that were just... tubes. This is how the headphones work when you get an mri
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This is missing the random audio pop, the one that is so ingrained from all the times you listened to your lovely napster mp3, you still expect to hear it every time you listen to song 20 years later.
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I remember some leaked albums having an audio watermark of some dude reading out the name of the album and the artist in the middle of the tracks
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History Comes Inside! posted:I remember some leaked albums having an audio watermark of some dude reading out the name of the album and the artist in the middle of the tracks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUzLx0jFP2o
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Sentient Data posted:All that insane amount of horsepower in even a cellphone these days, but no new milkdrop versions Poweramp on Android apparently supports .milk presets: 
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History Comes Inside! posted:I remember some leaked albums having an audio watermark of some dude reading out the name of the album and the artist in the middle of the tracks This is also why radio DJs always talk over the intro/outro of every track, so that people couldn't get clean recordings off the air.
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