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Tucows was somehow too big. I ended up visiting nonags.com for a curated catalog of cool freeware that didn't nag me to register. Having a Palm III was like having a grown-up Game Boy I could take to work. I got a bunch of stuff from FreewarePalm.com. https://web.archive.org/web/20040611094748/http://www.freewarepalm.com:80/ Played a bunch of Cody's Quest, a little Palm RPG engine that ripped off Final Fantasy sprites I think.
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Buttcoin purse posted:
They also make a database for billing and account tracking for ISPs called Platypus. I worked at a place that used it, and it's not bad software, or at least wasn't during my tenure. http://www.ispbilling.com/
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doctorfrog posted:Tucows was somehow too big. I ended up visiting nonags.com for a curated catalog of cool freeware that didn't nag me to register. I still have my Handspring Prism and it works great.
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Non Serviam posted:I remember downloading shareware from there in my early Internet days (around 97, I think). Nah, that was a different time. The internet then was a vast untapped frontier, that I doubt can ever be recreated. Everything about it was new and exciting then.
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Iron Crowned posted:Nah, that was a different time. The internet then was a vast untapped frontier, that I doubt can ever be recreated. Everything about it was new and exciting then. Part of it, though, is logging on and thinking "ok, what do I want to do today". Nowadays it's mostly hitting up the same sites or apps.
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FilthyImp posted:There was a time when Gopher through AOL (and AOL Keywords) was a far more manageable resource than going to the World Wide WEB. I dunno, even in 1995 I would hit up the same sites. Granted those sites were porn, but still.
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FilthyImp posted:Part of it, though, is logging on and thinking "ok, what do I want to do today". Nowadays it's mostly hitting up the same sites or apps. See also Where do you want to go today.
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Iron Crowned posted:Nah, that was a different time. The internet then was a vast untapped frontier, that I doubt can ever be recreated. Everything about it was new and exciting then. It really was a different time. Everything runs better now, but I miss the chaos of the early internet, spinning skull gifs and under constructions signs and all.
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Non Serviam posted:I miss the ignorance and naiveté that I felt on my first Internet days. I'm getting old, basically.  Cojawfee posted:So this is basically the same kind of situation as some movie theater chain owning all of CBS? Also yes, I think that in the start TUCOWS was good, but then as everything got more commerical, nonags.com was better. I went too far and now I use open source  whiteyfats posted:I miss the chaos of the early internet, spinning skull gifs and under constructions signs and all.
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Holy poo poo, a riotgrrrl-style cover of High Hopes.
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Heh, I always got my shareware from those CD-ROM magazines. I still have some of them, featuring incredible image collections of some 20 bmp files with no more than 400 pixels wide or tall, sound effects, midi files and so on. All of them were Brazilian magazines except one, which was (very probably) a PC Zone from 1996 with Neverhood on the cover. Couldn't find a scan of this one on the internet so far. Does anyone here have it, by any chance?
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I remember when AOL added "the web" in (I think) 2.5 or 3.0. My buddy's family had Prodigy and it got webs earlier. We spent most of our time downloading TV show theme songs in WAV or MIDI format and playing with the files in sound recorder. Then we both discovered porn and never talked again.
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SLOSifl posted:I remember when AOL added "the web" in (I think) 2.5 or 3.0. 3.0 added the bundled browser and integrated it with their garden. I believe the post3.0 updates made it a more traditional online service, so you could use IE or NN to surf outside of the AOL environs. I do kind of wish someone made a retro AOL emulator just to see what it was like again. I know the one goon found still-active keywords and poo poo. Hell, maybe Aol outright could make AOL Throwback and make money from the ads. If Zima can come back, anything is possible.
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If someone makes a retro AOL, can I make a retro AoHell in Delphi? Also the Kashmir fake account creator (drat there was NO credit card security back then) used an instrumental Beastie Boys song while it did its thing, always loved that, or so I hear.
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doctorfrog posted:Played a bunch of Cody's Quest, a little Palm RPG engine that ripped off Final Fantasy sprites I think. Oh if that's the same one I'm thinking of it was Kyle's Quest. I used to gently caress around with the little scenario developer kit on the computer a lot and I emailed back and forth a bit with the creator. http://www.nathansalapat.com/blog/kyles-quest And apparently there's a KQ2 out on iOS and android apparently so it's still out there http://www.rpg-site.com/kylesquest2.html
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FilthyImp posted:They added support in 2.5, which meant spending forever downloading their AOL branded rendition of Netscape Navigator (which, iirc, wasn't compatible with NN plug-ins so some things were broken ). Oh no, you couldn't go through Shockwave, RealPlayer or QuickTime (e: or Java) plugin hell?
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Iron Prince posted:Oh if that's the same one I'm thinking of it was Kyle's Quest. I used to gently caress around with the little scenario developer kit on the computer a lot and I emailed back and forth a bit with the creator. Yep, that's it! If there were a PalmOS emulator on RetroPie I'd be loading these up for nostalgia's sake. The other one that I logged a lot of hours on was Space Trader (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Trader_(Palm_OS)) doctorfrog has a new favorite as of 06:38 on Jun 12, 2017 |
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Grand Prize Winner posted:Holy poo poo, a riotgrrrl-style cover of High Hopes. I don't know why I was expecting a cover of Pink Floyd's High Hopes. That was dumb of me.
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Remember when you had to have multiple instances of a browser open in the days before tabs? Meanwhile now I regularly have 20 tabs sitting there ready for me to browse.
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CubanMissile posted:I don't know why I was expecting a cover of Pink Floyd's High Hopes. That was dumb of me. It kinda makes sense though. Seattle was like, the epicenter of both Microsoft and grunge.
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You just know that there's some kid out there that stumbled across his older brother's or dad's CDs and said: "whoa, Korn! That's old school!" Typing that sentence made me die inside a little bit.
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Star Man posted:You just know that there's some kid out there that stumbled across his older brother's or dad's CDs and said: "whoa, Korn! That's old school!" I'm already feeling old when the radio station the work radios are on say "and now for some OOLLLLLD SCHOOOOL goodness" and they play Linkin Park.
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Negrostrike posted:Heh, I always got my shareware from those CD-ROM magazines. I still have some of them, featuring incredible image collections of some 20 bmp files with no more than 400 pixels wide or tall, sound effects, midi files and so on. One of the strangest bits of shareware/freeware I ever found on a disc like that was a Microsoft GIF Animator that at the time was pretty easy to use and basic, but I had good results with the few times I used it. Then I lost the disk and lost the program due to an reformat and it turned out it was no longer available on the MS site when I went looking for it. A rumor from around the time was that MS actually removed the download for a period of time due to some GIF legal stuff going on at the time. I guess that's a thing, too: Wasn't Compuserve trying to sue for control over the GIF format for a while in the late 90s/early 00s? I seem to recall that some version of Windows or some program I had actually didn't have GIF support one way or another (like maybe it WOULD open a GIF but it wouldn't save as one.)
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JediTalentAgent posted:One of the strangest bits of shareware/freeware I ever found on a disc like that was a Microsoft GIF Animator that at the time was pretty easy to use and basic, but I had good results with the few times I used it. Then I lost the disk and lost the program due to an reformat and it turned out it was no longer available on the MS site when I went looking for it. A rumor from around the time was that MS actually removed the download for a period of time due to some GIF legal stuff going on at the time. This article from 1995 should help: http://www.amigareport.com/ar304/feature2.html Native animated GIF support inside explorer without using shell extensions too long
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Back in the active desktop days you could set an animated gif as your background in Windows. I remember grabbing huge gifs off SA wallpaper threads that would slowly cycle through the rainbow over the course of an hour, 15 min, 1 min, etc. Then MS removed active desktop just because it was full of huge glaring security holes 
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A Pinball Wizard posted:Back in the active desktop days you could set an animated gif as your background in Windows. I remember grabbing huge gifs off SA wallpaper threads that would slowly cycle through the rainbow over the course of an hour, 15 min, 1 min, etc. http://store.steampowered.com/app/431960/Wallpaper_Engine/
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I use this free program called John's Wallpaper Switcher than changes my wallpaper every few minutes.
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The Windows wallpaper switcher used to save whatever file was currently the selected wallpaper in the C:\WIndows folder. If you rebooted enough before the wallpaper was switched, and it was a jpg, you could watch the artifacts get worse with each reboot.
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This is a really cool program.
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Humphreys posted:Remember when you had to have multiple instances of a browser open in the days before tabs? Meanwhile now I regularly have 20 tabs sitting there ready for me to browse. Yep, number one reason I used Netscape for so long back in the early 2000s. It had tabbed browsing and Internet Explorer did not. IIRC IE didn't support tabbed browsing for an embarrasingly long time after Firefox and Chrome introduced it. I remember a PhD student in my research group at uni (ca. 2010) who was very much against tabbed browsing because "if it crashes, you don't know what caused it". It was a bit weird, but then again he was also a guy who insisted on using big fuckoff CRTs long after everyone else had gotten flatscreens because "the aspect ratio was wrong for reading pdfs".
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I was another CRT guy up until 2010 or so because you could get a 20" CRT for like $20 when similar LCDs were going for $200. Sure, they weighed a hundred pounds, but they were CHEAP!
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Fair enough, but for this guy cost wasn't an issue as the university supplied the computers we all used.
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I was doing the whole 'old man tales' thing to a few of the younger co-workers the other day at work. When they learnt that Google wasn't always an omnipresent thing and wikipedia was this new thing that no one trusted the sources for, they lost their minds. Explaining that your knowledge was limited to actually researching through books at the library you had near you. The sphere of knowledge was limited to how good you were at looking stuff up and also how good your library was. Also - asking for ICQ/MSN addresses instead of cellphone numbers when out at the clubs.
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:Yep, number one reason I used Netscape for so long back in the early 2000s. It had tabbed browsing and Internet Explorer did not. IIRC IE didn't support tabbed browsing for an embarrasingly long time after Firefox and Chrome introduced it. One of my dual monitors (22" 16:9) is rotated 90degrees for sweet reading action.
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Grand Prize Winner posted:I was another CRT guy up until 2010 or so because you could get a 20" CRT for like $20 when similar LCDs were going for $200. Sure, they weighed a hundred pounds, but they were CHEAP! I had a big-rear end CRT (can't remember how big but I'd like to say over 22" anyway) way into the 2010s but in Summer it would make the room too hot so I got rid of it. Good picture, though; it was one of the "professional" brands but I forget which one.
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:One of my dual monitors (22" 16:9) is rotated 90degrees for sweet reading action. In my experience, 16:9 is almost too tall and narrow when rotated. My ideal would be 4:3 rotated to 3:4; this gives a height:width ration of about 1.3, while a sheet of 8.5x11 paper has a ratio of approx 1.33.
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Pham Nuwen posted:In my experience, 16:9 is almost too tall and narrow when rotated. My ideal would be 4:3 rotated to 3:4; this gives a height:width ration of about 1.3, while a sheet of 8.5x11 paper has a ratio of approx 1.33. √2 or  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_216
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