thathonkey posted:

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.

but iirc it was a fraction of the cost. that only mattered if you were too stupid to

JediTalentAgent posted:

Anyone else have vague memories of I think K-mart offering a free/discounted internet service (Bluelight.com, I think)? It was that or another one that was heavily ad-supported to offset costs, and then users figured out how to kill the ads or something.

edit: Found an article on the free internet era of the early 00s.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/01/business/days-of-plenty-are-over-at-free-internet-services.html

Data Graham posted:

I wonder how many people even know that "Hotmail" was once a pun on "HTML".

Boiled Water posted:

Were Google working on Android when iphones happened? Otherwise I imagine it would be a lot like the better blackberries - physical keyboards galore!

8 track betamax posted:

I would love to see what direction pocket computers could have taken if apple hadn't caught on with the rich idiot crowd.

Lowen SoDium posted:

The thing that always got me about the iPhone, when it was released, was all of the features that it was missing. At launch, it wasn't even what you would call a smart phone. It didn't have apps, GPS, 3G, copy and paste, multitasking, MMS messaging, or video recording. On top of all that, it was only available on Cingular, and it required you to use iTunes on your Mac or PC to set it up and to download updates.

UIApplication posted:

Infinite scroll is the worst loving thing to happen to the web. Someone please put forth a devil's advocate reason for it to exist.

Data Graham posted:

Not those fancy-schmancy iframes

Real navigational frames, part of the DOM to begin with and not injected by some JS library, you know with a <FRAMESET> in all caps and everything

The Kins posted:

A friend of mine runs a reasonably popular blog about old CD-ROM multimedia stuff, and he's ran into something interesting that he can't get his claws into yet.

He's found a video on an old MacAddict demo disc of the magazine's editorial staff going out to a baseball game to see a team that no longer exists play at a park that no longer exists. Unfortunately, it's a .moov file, which appears to be an older Mac OS version of the old Quicktime .mov format.

Any ideas how he'd go about converting this to a format that Youtube wouldn't just kind of stare at in confusion? My knowledge of video codec conversion starts and ends with dropping stuff into AVIdemux or a FFMPEG batch file.

GutBomb posted:

Nut often

thathonkey posted:

Yeah XP was pretty much the same as 2000 under hood and had the rock solid NT kernel. Software and hardware compatibility was outstanding in both

Turdsdown Tom posted:

what else would I have had? pretty much all the monitors i ever used were either 1024x768 or 1280x1024, which is basically just a bastardized 4:3

Anony Mouse posted:

childhood.ico



(well more like puberty.ico)

1997-2001 were objectively the golden age of gaming and no one will ever be able to convince me otherwise

Negrostrike posted:

Has this been posted already? Nice screenshots from old rear end software from the days of old rear end.
http://www.danielsays.com/ss-gallery.html

I'm particularly impressed by how seemingly sophisticated this version of Corel WordPerfect Suite for MS-DOS (from 1997 what the gently caress!) is.




Seems to be just as powerful as Office 97 for Win9x.

Booourns posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynjERjWIOmY&list=PL2V5vyJ-xzGV9P8G-ekciw6TGmqQBgoa-

Buttcoin purse posted:

This isn't as exciting as emulation chat but:

Microsoft KB833404: Description of the Bookshelf Symbol 7 Font Removal Tool in Office 2003


? No:


The funny thing is this very long article which isn't that interesting says Unicode does define some swastika characters but there were some efforts to hide them, e.g. if we put them in with all the other Chinese characters and don't actually use the word "swastika" hopefully nobody will find them! These are some of them:


I don't know if since the Office 2003 days, Microsoft has changed their ideas - that might have been pre-Unicode? Does anyone not actually see the swastika characters in the quote above? They work fine for me on Linux.

WebDog posted:

There were a few indie stores here that did that. While the game box was out on display you got the actual game put inside a replacement case with a photo copied manual and so on.

It sorta called some grief if they didn't copy the serial number for the install or the photocopy was pretty bad. But the practice died out as games began to move online and keys were being actively checked for duplicate uses.

Buy yes savvy kids were able to effectively rent and make copies of games, but often the selection was pretty poor and often brought months after release and anything big like Half-Life or GTA 3 you'd never see.

CaptainSarcastic posted:

That just reminded me of how you used to be able to text questions to Google and it would text back responses. They quit providing the service a few years ago now, but it was actually really handy and let you get around data limits even if you had a smart (or smartish) phone. Anyone else use that?

Data Graham posted:

Sure, that makes a lot more sense architecturally, since the data set doesn't change very much and isn't very big.

But are the cable boxes literally so pokey that the limiting factor is the app's UI responsiveness, or is it the network latency? Because I can't see the latter being a valid excuse.

Data Graham posted:

Then in the 90s it all became commoditized and we got a decade of dull gray boxes that we wanted to be unobtrusive because it was tedious and boring infrastructure.

FilthyImp posted:

That would make sense considering the UX would be better with a new computer, instead of making marginal improvements and having your Performa limp along trying to run OSx.

drunk asian neighbor posted:

I'm starting to see x265 out there, but I have no idea what the advantage is.

drunk asian neighbor posted:

I guess it's still experimental then, because most of what I've seen has been larger file sizes for the same quality.

ColoradoCleric posted:

are you all secretly scene releasers because there is no way knowing this much about codecs is normal

Lowen SoDium posted:

Does anyone remember Vivo? It was a very early streaming video player. Mostly used for porn in the 90's. Blocky, low res, buffering porn...

drunk asian neighbor posted:

Also I'm pretty sure WinRAR stops you from using it after the trial period.

FilthyImp posted:

In my early 20s, I decided I was going to collect all my audio in the format of the future (.OGG) and then got a HP MP3 player that wouldn't gently caress with that so I went all in with MP3. Everything's streamed at loving 196 anyway so gently caress my ears.