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Still have and use my Windows 2000 laptop bag they gave me when I purchased Win2K at Microcenter the day it was released. Not a bad OS either.
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What a great thread. I just found out that the first gen mac mini's had a g4 chip and can be fooled into running OS9 natively! Now I can play star wars racer again. (when I track one down and make it work again). http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php/topic,4366.0.html
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I found an extremely boomer thing at Vinnies: 
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I wonder how many of the links are still working.
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the domain name registrar of belgium has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever
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His mom is hot.
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By popular demand posted:I wonder how many of the links are still working. So what you're saying is that I should go back and get it?
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Humphreys posted:I found an extremely boomer thing at Vinnies: I followed the second link and it's to a video of "Chris P Bacon" a pig that can't use its hind legs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z-uO5TPQfM
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I got this for Christmas 1998. 800 pages and 2/3 of the links were broken by the time the book hit store shelves.
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Humphreys posted:So what you're saying is that I should go back and get it? You mean you didn't?! is our momentary entertainment not worth even 1$ to you?!
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Dip Viscous posted:I got this for Christmas 1998. 800 pages and 2/3 of the links were broken by the time the book hit store shelves. I love that period where print books had website addresses written in them. Just a total waste of everyone's time but they didn't know any better
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 I picked this up at a Goodwill a few years ago.
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credburn posted:
Is SA in there?
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credburn posted:
Based on the sheer amount of them I saw during my old job, you can't tell me this book isn't filled with websites of architecture/design studios. They all try way too hard and end up with poo poo like this: https://www.zaha-hadid.com/
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Beve Stuscemi posted:The coolest tech relic logo is clearly sun microsystems I agree! 
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credburn posted:
Got dramn, this site is still around, sort of: http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/ I used to go back and skim it periodically just to laugh at the examples he pointed out. Looks like the original kernel of the site is now buried under a tedious dead blog, but once upon a time this was something I used to send people to like the Gallery of Regrettable Food.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:His mom is hot. Microwave is older than I imagined
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monolithburger posted:Based on the sheer amount of them I saw during my old job, you can't tell me this book isn't filled with websites of architecture/design studios. There was a span of over a decade where every professional photographer on the planet had a completely unusable website that was 100% Flash.
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I just remembered the... wedding planner cum photographer website? Those who have even a vague memory about it will know which one I mean.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I just remembered the... wedding planner cum photographer website? Those who have even a vague memory about it will know which one I mean. That's just your Brazzers subscription.
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credburn posted:
Can you look up if Zombo.com in that book because if it is, that is a travesty. That site lets you do ANYTHING. Literally ANYTHING at all !! The only thing that is limited is just yourself. edit: hahah and the site was updated to HTML5 instead of Flash. What a modern website! 
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Humphreys posted:So what you're saying is that I should go back and get it? it's only 150 pages, just go back and scan it all in the store.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I just remembered the... wedding planner cum photographer website? Those who have even a vague memory about it will know which one I mean. Restaurants, too. Though I'm not sure if that's better or worse than the modern "we only have an instagram or facebook page, and you have to log in to be allowed to scroll far enough to find a bad photo of the menu from last year".
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:What's the thing above the main panel? Tape drive, I dropped by there today to grab a switch and took some more photos of the PDP-8 and the PDP-11 next to it:   Bonus images:  
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I just remembered the... wedding planner cum photographer website? Those who have even a vague memory about it will know which one I mean. https://yvettesbridalformal.p1r8.net/
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From top to bottom on the PDP-8 rack:
The PDP-11 rack has two RL02 removable disk drives. I can't tell what that ~1U thing between the upper drive and the PDP-11 itself is, it looks like there's a little black display panel there?
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Yes haha yes!
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Pham Nuwen posted:The PDP-11 rack has two RL02 removable disk drives. I can't tell what that ~1U thing between the upper drive and the PDP-11 itself is, it looks like there's a little black display panel there? I think it might just be a spacer -- in a couple of other (admittedly extremely low res) photos I could find of contemporary similar PDP-11/23 stacks, the same panel just says "DIGITAL" on it. Similarly the box below the CPU/QBUS mounting box is probably a cover for the front of a power distribution unit, since DEC tended to sell those with them and they're the same height as an 11/23 QBUS enclosure. I'd need to get a look at the back to be sure.
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Dip Viscous posted:I got this for Christmas 1998. 800 pages and 2/3 of the links were broken by the time the book hit store shelves. I got this for Christmas 1998.  Most 'official' band sites were just pages hosted on university servers.
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For my band I had to use multiple hosts as some allowed mp3 files but others wouldn’t but had other benefits, so the pages would jump around like crazy.
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Fell down a Ericsson Hotline car/mobile phone rabbit hole and came across these ads featuring the character of... Harry Hotline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x82RtYQwtpo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZggPUSrwh4 And Ericsson still has a history page about the advertising campaign, including this great nugget: quote:We had to come up with a campaign that worked on all the strange markets Ericsson was active in. The NMT-system and mobile phones were sold in Scandinavia, parts of Europe, Asia and South America. Harry HotLine wnet down well in all those places. The only exception was Venezuela, they thought he looked like a drug-dealer.[ So beautiful women replaced him, but in the end we had to send them posters of Harry anyway. Their customers insisted on having them when they bought mobile phones.
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So they used hot women in the ads but the customers demanded a poster of the trench coat guy?
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I got a box of old PC stuff and it included some interesting tech relics. First, the guts of an old Zenith Z-150 type PC. It was an XT clone, but unlike most of the major manufacturers Zenith went with a passive backplane design, with the CPU/RAM/motherboard circuitry on ISA cards. The keyboard connector is on the CPU board.   The other card there is a combination floppy controller and CGA video card, itself a weirdo combination. I want to try to get it working but since Zeniths used a non-standard power connector I think my best bet is to get a standard ISA backplane that takes AT/ATX. The other relic is even more a creature of its time: the box contained a pair of Y2K compatibility BIOS cards. Remember those at your local CompUSA?  They weren't just snake oil, not exactly. While even most old PC BIOSes will accept post-2000 dates, a lot of real-time-clocks of the era won't roll over properly from 1999 to 2000, and the expansion BIOS in these cards intercepts RTC calls to direct them to the onboard one that's Y2K compliant. That said, it only really mattered if you had a PC that was going to be running overnight on 12/31/99 and would get screwed up by the sudden change. Otherwise it was paying money and installing a new card just to avoid having to change your system clock with your New Years' hangover the next morning. You'd think those would be utterly useless today but it seems the option ROM slots make them a good way to put an XT-IDE BIOS in an old system for large drive support.
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Just want to appreciate how those organizers were inferior to pen and paper in pretty much every way. Just a lame tamagotchi for business yuppies.
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Trabant posted:nnnngh man this thing is strikingly beautiful, wow also I really doubt it is, but if that neon tube in the retro clock was an actual neon tube that would be cool as poo poo
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snorch posted:Just want to appreciate how those organizers were inferior to pen and paper in pretty much every way. Just a lame tamagotchi for business yuppies.
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