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This site is incredible for anyone who has any memories of using AOL and "progz" back in the day. http://justinakapaste.com/ 
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Dec 19, 2015 18:13
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Kharnifex posted:This old gem. http://web.archive.org/web/20000301081405/http://www.fufme.com/
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Dec 20, 2015 02:43
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CNN still has remnants of really old pages on their site. Check this out: http://edition.cnn.com/2001/US/09/11/chronology.attack/ Look at how low-res photos were back then. It's amazing that this was in the same millennium. I don't remember images being that tiny in 1995. It probably helped that my monitor was 640x480 though.
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The Goatfather posted:there was a little local computer shop near my school (this is where i bought deus ex pre-goty in a box) and one time they showed me an AGP video card someone had tried to return where they actually cut the slot bit of the card that inserts into the motherboard down to make it fit in an ISA slot 
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Dec 22, 2015 16:02
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Mak0rz posted:I started with a Diamond Monster card that had a poor man's Voodoo chipset (Banshee, I think it was called). Thing wasn't great, but it was serviceable for my lovely old computer that didn't have more than ISA and PCI slots. A couple of years later I got one of these bad boys: I'm the AOL PC badge.
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Dec 22, 2015 19:41
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JakeP posted:did aol punters ever actually work for forcing someone to log off, because I used punters all the time (got my family banned from AOL) and I never successfully punted someone Yeah, it worked because it would completely freeze AOL and you'd have to ctrl alt delete. The code was just spamming <h3> over and over again which as far as I know is just html code for a large title. Not sure why that would freeze AOL but it did. You didn't even need a punter to do it. Just copy and paste a bunch of <h3>s and you'd kick someone off. It stopped working in AOL 4.0 because html codes for fonts and stuff were allowed. 
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Dec 22, 2015 22:20
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thathonkey posted:ah I almost mentioned that but I couldn't think of a good way to describe it. the voice sample is really distinct in my head though. iirc it spawned infinite windows of itself until it crashed your computer so that the audio would get stuck looping most of the time until you could scramble for a hard reset. I still kind of remember the url. It was something like comp-u-geek.net and people would give it out as a response when someone asked for computer help. I'd look it up on the way back machine but I don't feel like freezing my PC.
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Dec 27, 2015 01:31
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CaptainSarcastic posted:It used javascript to infinitelly spawn windows every time one was closed, and the audio sample I remember "Hey everybody, I'm looking at gay porn!" Knowing how to use the task manager was helpful, as was keeping the sound muted as a matter of course on your work machine. I think there was another variation that used "You are an idiot. Hahahahahaha." Here you are. Go nuts: http://web.archive.org/web/20010115000000*/http://www.comp-u-geek.net By the way, you all do know that Google has archived literally every newsgroup post ever, right? You can find poo poo like people posting about the Berlin wall falling when it happened. https://groups.google.com/d/msg/eunet.politics/LbrVEM7zp-Y/ae_hhAk9jd8J
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Dec 27, 2015 06:20
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I don't know why people are so keen on deleting files like mp3 collections. There's record label fuckery which means a streaming service might not have your favorite album in the future even though it's there now. Plus data caps especially on cell phone plans will make local storage come back in a big way.. Not to mention an 8tb hard drive can be had for like $150. Condense every fuckin DVD you ever owned, rip every cd you ever had, make a folder of every photo you ever took and throw it in the closet. It takes up less space than a shoe. I don't get it. 
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Dec 30, 2015 23:58
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klafbang posted:And it was great! Of all the CEOs in America that deserve a pie in the face...and it's Bill "donate my entire fortune to charity" Gates, and not some health insurance CEO or Alice Walton or something. loving nerds.  Netscape Navigator should come with Windows. Or, Internet Explorer should be an optional download
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Jan 3, 2016 04:31
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Dirk Squarejaw posted:The best MP3 player I ever used was an iRiver H10. Sound was awesome, but it was the glitchiest piece of poo poo I've ever owned. Yes the iRiver H10 sounds amazing because it has a great Digital to Analog Converter (DAC). As for it being a glitchy piece of poo poo, there's a pretty easy way to give it custom software which is 1000% better: http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/IriverPort It does cool poo poo like let the drive act as a USB hard drive (instead of a media device) and it can browse folders and via filename if you don't wanna do by tags.
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Jan 5, 2016 18:19
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Fabulousity posted:Computer farted during a burn and gave you a coaster? Not for me, shitlord Plextor was awesome for burners back then. So innovative. IIRC they somehow managed to create a CD burner that stored a full gig on a 700MB CD-R. A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:In my teens I spent around a year saving up for that exact model of Plextor. It worked especially well with CloneCD and allowed the software to have complete control over writing subchannel data, which meant that you could make perfect duplicates of games even if the disc had copy protection like SafeDisc. It paid for itself pretty drat quickly after I started selling games at school for $5. Out of curiosity, why couldn't it copy the PS1 disc subchannel data? Buttcoin purse posted:I still have a few blank Kodak silver/gold CD-Rs (not as great as just plain gold) waiting for something really important to burn on them. Wow, I just checked and those are $25 per disc on eBay.  It's incredible. I have a lot of CD-Rs that I burned in 1998 that still work beautifully. Yet CD-Rs I burned in 2005 are almost all useless and unreadable. I do enjoy cheap prices but I really hate when the quality dips that drastically. But $3 per disc back then did kind of suck. Wouldn't a flash drive or even mechanical hard drive stored away somewhere be more reliable than even those gold CD-Rs though?
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Jan 24, 2016 12:05
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Honestly I don't think I've ever had a hard drive die in my 20+ years of computing. I do IT work and it's ridiculously uncommon for the issue to be the hard drive. I mean yeah it's happened, but some of the stuff I work with have hard drives from the 90s and are working fine. I kinda feel like if your hard drive makes it past the 2 year mark it's probably going to last a very long time.
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Germstore posted:Run a burn in program on any new hard drive you buy. If it doesn't fail after a day of burn in it'll most likely last for many years. Is there a Windows one you recommend? I just bougbought an 8tb Seagate for $140 and now I'm terrified.
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