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PromethiumX posted:Interstate 76 has the best soundtrack of any game I've ever played. I played that with my Microsoft Force Feedback Sidewinder joystick. PromethiumX posted:those things died the instant CDR's came out and rightfully so. god drat what a poo poo piece of media. remember the click of death? I bought mine in 1996 or 97 and it still works. There is some demand for them in the music community because some MIDI devices that were made in the 90s use them to backup and load data into memory. Art departments used them all the time because they were reusable and dependable. Burning a CD usually included a prayer and standing on one leg to make sure that he burning process completed without error.
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Dec 20, 2015 00:47
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The_Franz posted:Zip drives came out when CD-Rs had been already been around for years and they didn't die until flash media was cheap. Nobody carried documents and other files that were frequently edited to school or work on a CD-R because CD-Rs were slow and a pain in the rear end to use like that. Also people used Jazz drives because you could get a whole gigabyte on them
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Dec 20, 2015 01:53
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http://www.ilovebacon.com/ is still active. Along with Zip drives, there was SuperDisk which could read 120MB discs or regular 3.5" floppies.
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Dec 21, 2015 04:38
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Bagarthach posted:
I still use Forte Agent. The NZB indexers don't grab everything and they always get shut down. Plus if you are looking for older stuff or concert bootlegs it's priceless.
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Dec 21, 2015 04:47
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When PC companies started messing with case form factors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPAQ_(desktop_computer) Also Packard Bell machines were garbage.
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Dec 21, 2015 16:01
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Mad Monk posted:Real men use a Bigfoot Harddrive. I bought a 5GB one at CompUSA on black Friday 1997 for store all my MP3s
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Dec 21, 2015 17:14
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There was a 2nd, less well known video on the Windows 95 CD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc Also this site still exists http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/weeee
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Dec 21, 2015 19:27
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It's amazing how lovely web design was back then https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQrGBv2EAKI
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Dec 21, 2015 19:59
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wow http://www.hamsterdance.org/hamsterdance/ And another song to stick in your head. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5C6X9vOEkU
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Dec 21, 2015 21:02
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ICQ and WS_FTP had the same "uh oh!" sound. A guy I used to work with got in trouble because the boss thought he was chatting during work time. Turns out the guy was just uploading changes to the website.
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Dec 21, 2015 21:59
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I installed Windows 95 with floppies. That...that took a while
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Dec 22, 2015 00:07
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You Don't Know Jack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkL31g9XrRU
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Dec 22, 2015 05:52
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thathonkey posted:I had saved up a bunch of money and begged my dad to help me order a nice video card for our PC (can't remember which one sadly, probably like an early Nvidia or ATI Radeon). I even made sure that the motherboard had the right slot to accept the card. I finally convinced him to buy it for me, it arrives, and it turns out it was too long to fit. There was some piece of plastic attached to the opposite side of the video card slot on the motherboard (part of one of the RAM bays or something IIRC) so it wouldn't seat all the way in. I bought a VooDoo card in 1999 that was like this. I had to remove some of the HDD cages to fit it all in there. The card also had its own power supply that plugged into the surge protector. 
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Dec 22, 2015 15:46
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minutes later i was owning little bitches in q3
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The_Franz posted:Pretty impressive considering that card wasn't unveiled until 2000 and was never actually released. ok so that may not be the exact model in the picture but I did have one. It also functioned as a TV capture card but performance was poo poo and I ended up returning it.
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Dec 22, 2015 17:20
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i can remember telling people to type ALT F4 to enter a secret chat room. But as soon as you did this you'd hear "Goodbye" and the AOL Window would close. Now the person would have to spend the next 45 minutes trying to dial back in
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Dec 22, 2015 22:24
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I don't remember the names but there were a few brute force apps out there that I used to get into porn sites. Also Carol Cox and Wifey's World are still producing content it seems.
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Dec 24, 2015 16:05
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocmJE2O4uIU&feature=youtu.be
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Dec 24, 2015 23:11
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Facing Worlds CTF is my jam. Steam has Unreal Tournament Game of the year version on sale for $3.
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Dec 31, 2015 00:03
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 Bits and Bytes was a Canadian television series, produced by TVOntario in 1983. It starred Luba Goy as the instructor, and Billy Van as the student. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VaBYw3swyg
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Dec 31, 2015 00:28
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making web pages with Hot Dog HTML editor, HoT MetaL, Microsoft FrontPage and DreamWeaver.
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Dec 31, 2015 16:52
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Remember PointCast? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PointCast_(dotcom)
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Jan 1, 2016 22:52
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DarkMalfunction posted:A few years back I had to redo an XP installation, and it was so much more work than a W7 install. We called it plug and pray
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Jan 3, 2016 02:26
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It's been ages since I looked at material for A+ certification. Do they still require you to know IRQ ports and hexadecimals?
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Jan 4, 2016 17:59
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blugu64 posted:lol if you didn't have SCSI back in the day My SCSI card had dip switches.
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Jan 4, 2016 20:10
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Making cross over cables. Before companies started making routers for the consumer market, it was the only way I could share my cable modem connection on two machines.
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Jan 4, 2016 22:00
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Using a KVM switch to administrate the LAN because Terminal Server wasn't a thing yet and it was the only way to connect to and work with 8 towers without 8 keyboards and mice on your desk.
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Jan 5, 2016 17:41
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Howard Beale posted:Back before the FCC forced AT&T to split up the Bell companies, you not only had to buy your phones from Bell but also pay monthly for each phone in your house. I remember my parents installing an illicit second extension upstairs and my mom playing dumb when The Phone Company called. "You hear a second ring on our line? Oh, sure! When somebody calls, our phone goes ring-ring, ring-ring." I remember those days. We did same things with cable TV in the 80s and 90s. I'm pretty sure one of the reasons Radio Shack went under is because no one needs 25ft of phone cable or cable TV splitter boxes.
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Jan 6, 2016 04:08
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Buying a copy of RedHat (and the install manual) at CompUSA in 1997
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Jan 7, 2016 18:15
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buying a copy of Internet Yellow Pages because search engines had lovely indexes. Also manually submitting your site to search engines so it could be indexed. SEO in the 90s was pretty much a nightmare.
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Jan 7, 2016 19:52
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Yahoo chat rooms in the early 2000s were pretty awesome for free cam shows. LiveJournal had some good "Gone Wild" type communities too.
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Jan 8, 2016 19:30
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Melmac posted:Honestly I don't think I've ever had a hard drive die in my 20+ years of computing. Same here. I remember one drive starting to fail so I moved all the content over to a spare. Another reason that those huge towers came in handy. I still have Zip disks that load up and never failed.
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Jan 25, 2016 15:02
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Jose Oquendo posted:Is it still used in the legal profession? I think that was the last 'holdout' The main reason is that MS Word has a mind of its own when it comes to document formatting especially when you import from other sources. If you try to import a WordPerfect template into Word, all of your formatting goes to poo poo. Since the legal world relies on paperwork, it's just easier to fill out the template that was created in 1985 instead of doing it all over again. I've seen law offices with an old DOS machine in the corner running WordPerfect 5.1 and it gets used maybe once a month but it works so why replace it? Most private practices also have paralegals and admin personnel that have been doing the same job for 25 years and they are not going to re-learn everything. Speaking of office staff using old poo poo; I know a guy who is in his late 50s and makes good money on the side writing Excel macros for small accounting firms. He's currently pissed off because there are rumors that Microsoft is going to stop licensing VBScript and remove it completely from the Office Suite.
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Feb 5, 2016 17:30
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stubblyhead posted:Licensing it from whom? Isn't it their own creation? Like most of their stuff, they bought it off someone in the early 90s and slowly folded it into Windows. I know they stopped updating VBA in 2010 and they only work since then it making to compatible with 64 bit CPUs. Either way they don't seem to have much interest in it anymore and most of the enterprise Admins I meet lock down their environments to keep people from running macros. Especially since some phishing scams work by users opening malicious attachments in Outlook. thathonkey posted:somebody posted it last page but I had forgotten all about Paint Shop Pro. haha what a piece of absolute garbage that software was. especially given that photoshop was around at the time. In 1996 I ordered a computer from TigerDirect. Since it was it came with WordPerfect Suite and Corel Draw. In addition to the install CDs you had 4 CDs full of clip art of 2 or 3 books with an index of the clipart pictures and told you witch CD it was on and the file name.
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Feb 5, 2016 20:03
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Keith Atherton posted:the infamous Hot Dog Stand. I made a bet with a guy at work that he couldn't use that theme on his Windows 7 machine for a week. He did it but by day 4 he was having some issues looking at his monitors. He said reading email was the worst.
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Feb 6, 2016 00:21
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A friend of mine has one of these and there is some interesting history to it. http://www.pcmuseum.ca/details.asp?id=38398 quote:...due to some manufacturing flaws, most of these machines die and Patriot got stuck repairing and replacing so many of them that it drove them out of business. Worse, they took money and orders right up to the end and ended up not shipping thousands of units and failing to pay Mattel royalties. http://pcmuseum.ca/Brochures/MattelComputers.pdf
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Feb 6, 2016 15:28
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Data Graham posted:Ahh, Frontpage. Rupert Buttermilk posted:I remember having to troubleshoot for Frontpage when working at Hostopia. That was a HUGE downside to my job there. 'sup web hosting/ISP Bros I got at least 3 calls a day to reset FrontPage extensions. People either could not publish or complain that their hit counter got stuck. For a few years I did some web pages for a few local businesses that were run by friends of friends. At the time I was using DreamWeaver and made some basic, but decent looking sites. I quit doing it because I woulds always get a frantic call telling their website was all messed up and each time it was because they decided to make changes themselves in FrontPage which of course hosed up all the HTML and new images were coded as img src="c:\MY DESKTOP\PICTURES\ITEMS\IMG9234-135235234.jpg"
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Feb 10, 2016 20:08
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My first real IT job was working for a small computer shop in '96 doing some sales and bench work. A women comes in panicked that her computer won't boot. "It says it can't find my hymen!" Turns out HIMEM.sys wasn't loading. 3 years later I found myself working as Jr. Admin for a local, 500 user ISP. I was also the tech support guy and got a call from a guy who was having trouble loading our CD. We gave out CDs that ran a script that configured Dial up Networking and updated IE with some bookmarks and updated the homepage. Everything I try won't get this drat CS to load. I finally have him eject it and have me read me the print on the CD in case he got the wrong one. "There's nothing on there. It's just all blue." He was looking at the business side of the CD-R we gave out. Yes. I have actually gotten the "CD shiny side up" tech support call.
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Feb 11, 2016 20:23
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Data Graham posted:Nah no such luck, Oracle will release a new patch every six minutes Oracle is killing the Java plug ins
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Tucker Max has a wife and kid now and is running some kind of ghost writing business. http://bookinabox.com/about-us/ quote:At the time, there wasn’t a way. If you wanted to publish a book, you had to write it and publish it yourself, or navigate the complicated publishing industry. Otherwise, your book just stayed in your head. Say what you will about his frat boy stunts and made up stories but the message board on his site was really good for discussions on pretty much anything without having to argue with any Spurglords.
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