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Just made it through all 57 pages of this thread, what a ride. Makes me wish I could have been around for really early computing because it seems really interesting. Most of my old computing was from my job at a computer store in the mid 2000s. People would bring in old computers to get them fixed or recycled. I learned about RAMBUS and how it has to be in pairs. Got to see all kinds of cool things. Someone even once brought in a really old keyboard synthesizer, was really cool. The only relic of my earlier internet days that I wish I could find absolutely anything on was a web comic called Badtech. It was a 3D graphics comic about a software company called Badtech. It was hilarious but the guy suddenly stopped making it and also stopped paying for his hosting so the entire thing disappeared from the internet. The only reference I can find about it is an O'Reilly book about PHP or some kind of web page crap about making a new page for a new Badtech strip as an example. And there's also some forum thread where people are talking about getting the comic syndicated on another website. i wish it had because then it might still exist. I don't know what it is about that comic that makes em want it back. It wasn't the funniest thing ever. I guess it's one rare case of something actually being removed from the internet.
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Non Serviam posted:On that note, screensavers themselves seem to be a relic. Since screens are no longer at risk of developing ghosts from static images, it seems to be that whole industry faded into oblivion. Especially since you can just have the screen go into standby now.
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Feb 8, 2016 18:43
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drunk asian neighbor posted:That level where you first encounter the Flood (the Library?) was really loving egregious in that regard. All the old reviews are like "oooh spooky new enemies in cool open-yet-claustrophobic spaces" but really it was just "dark hallway section with lovely suiciding enemies coming at you from every angle" 50 times in a row I do not miss games with frustratingly hard to kill enemies.
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Feb 9, 2016 03:48
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You mean to anage it.
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Feb 9, 2016 15:54
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I think people only did banners because some parent or friend always had a printer that could do it. Birthday parties, office and school functions always had the dot matrix banner. Once people got ink jet printers and you had to actually go pay for a banner, the motivation wasn't there.
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Feb 9, 2016 16:06
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Blasphemer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1EIUP8tvbE
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Feb 9, 2016 19:28
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There's clearly a joystick and throttle pictured on the box.
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Feb 10, 2016 07:03
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John Big Booty posted:I can only imagine how large the Anime Exhibit is. There's a full size giant anime girl that tries to step on you.
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Feb 10, 2016 08:21
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I think Earthbound let you get to the last boss then it would declare you a pirate.
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Feb 11, 2016 18:35
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People have brought up that movie maker. I spend a lot of time with the demo of that. I also spend some time with Virgil Reality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aynclw6TXeE There was also another thing. It was a Nickelodeon game where you could make animations and pictures or something. I can't find anything on it though.
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Feb 13, 2016 04:48
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I finally figured out what that nickelodeon thing was. Nickelodeon Director's Lab. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDU8kmU-zuM
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Feb 13, 2016 08:39
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I hate Peter Molyneux. I haven't really played his games but he seems so smug about his games being so amazing that I don't want to.
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Feb 13, 2016 16:40
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Real Media was so lovely that even on the low resolutions that were available back then, it was still tiny and unwatchable.
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Feb 14, 2016 06:31
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Original_Z posted:Warez was so much more involved back then. Games would have poo poo ripped out and split into like 10+ archives which would take forever to download. Downloading was unreliable back then as well so we needed software like Getright to be able to resume. You would also have to visit "sponsor" sites, usually porn, and get a password to open the files (like, what's the 3rd word in the 2nd paragraph on this page?). Then you would hope that everything extracted correctly and you could actually play the game. Eventually win rar was able to automatically go through all your zips and turn it into one file.
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Feb 14, 2016 15:49
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Just did a Google Image search and son of a bitch, I DID have an 83. How the gently caress were people doing this? You could write programs in assembler and transfer them to the calculator with a transfer cable. Then you had to write a TI-BASIC program that would access it. The TI-83+ added flash ROM and you could save more programs that would survive battery failure. There were also programs you could access that basically listed all the games you had on your calculator. If you didn't have a cable to transfer from your PC or a friend with a transfer cable, you were poo poo out of luck unless you wanted some slow BASIC games. Everyone in my classes had the TI-83+ and I was stuck with a hand me down TI-83. So while everyone off playing kickass games and RPGs, I was stuck making roller coaster graphs.
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Feb 14, 2016 22:20
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TI calculators are great for nostalgia about old computer. They are primitive and overly expensive.
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Feb 15, 2016 00:40
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UIApplication posted:Are ti-8x's still like $100 despite the sum of their parts neing worth like three bucks at this point Yes. It's total bullshit. You can spend 100 dollars on a TI-84 or whatever, or you can spend another 30 dollars on an nSpire that has a color screen and rechargable batteries. I don't know how they can justify that. Cojawfee has a new favorite as of 04:31 on Feb 15, 2016 |
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drunk asian neighbor posted:My dad has a steadily growing collection of these because I keep finding them at garage sales and poo poo for a couple of bucks and buying them for him Someone dropped one of these off at a computer store I worked at. I kept it, it's pretty awesome.
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Feb 15, 2016 04:40
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TotalLossBrain posted:I am pretty sure I had some Cyrix processor for a short time in the late 90's. Probably just long enough to realize how terrible it was. I also ran with AMD for quite a few years, but that was in the 2000's. Everyone did AMD in the 2000s. I did two generations of AMD and switched back to Intel.
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Feb 15, 2016 05:51
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Anyone remember Celeron? My parents bought me a computer for "games." It was an emachines with a 900mhz celeron, 128 MB of ram, and 4mb of video memory. It somehow ran the ut2k3 demo poorly and even ran gta3 somehow. I remember thinking the demo level of ut2k3 was a snow level because my computer couldn't load the ground texture.
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Feb 15, 2016 14:50
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I was baffled when trying to get GTA 3 to run on my then-gf's computer. I mean, all of the numbers matched up! Literally the ONLY difference was that when it called for an Intel CPU, I was running a Celeron.
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Feb 15, 2016 16:33
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How would that even work? Did it just hijack the signals meant for the 386 or something?
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Feb 15, 2016 18:22
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There was a kid in my homeroom in high school who called them T-180s. I said "It's TI-83, because it's Texas Instruments." He replied with "I like to call it T-180." Ok, dude.
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Feb 15, 2016 22:31
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The_Franz posted:The best part of those graphing calculators was being able to play Tetris and Breakout during pointless busywork time and teachers still thought that you were actually working. Sure, if "actually working" looks like slumped down in the chair holding your calculator like a gameboy.
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Feb 15, 2016 23:03
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At least you weren't stuck with a TI-82.
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AA is for Quitters posted:The death of the desktop pc. Unless you work for the government and especially if you work in a classified environment.
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Feb 16, 2016 22:13
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Return Of JimmyJars posted:This is what I was thinking of, weird. I remember this site. I even found the file I uploaded. It's been downloaded over 1700 times. That's a lot of downloads for something that just lets you move a 0 around the screen with the arrow keys.
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Feb 17, 2016 06:39
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I used the multiple desktops during the windows 10 RCs and then never used them when retail came out because I started using two monitors.
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Feb 18, 2016 16:58
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The worst part of old macs was waiting for it to boot up and looking at all those stupid little icons appear. It's stuck on that one, is it frozen? Should I start over? Maybe I'll give it another minute to see if it is still loading.
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Feb 19, 2016 18:00
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Data Graham posted:I would love to have my old 7600 (or its successor, the 7300) that I used at work in the mid-90s. It was a nice solid performer, and it had a case design that made my eyes pop: Wow, you're right, my eyes actually popped.
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Feb 21, 2016 03:28
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Gaming laptops have never made sense.
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Ziptar posted:Another relic I remembered from back in the day... My first external hard drive enclosure. Parallel Port!!! Think I had 100 Mb hard drive in it and drivers that loaded from a DOS boot disk. Even USB was annoying to use until XP. When I was working in a computer store, there was a laptop with Windows 2000 on it. I plugged in a flash drive in order to put some software on it forgot that 2000 didn't have the USB drivers included. I had to connect it to the internet, find the USB drivers and then I could move the files over.
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Feb 22, 2016 20:56
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calvus posted:Can't you just find it online somewhere? It was a 16 bit game so you can't run it on a 64bit OS according to legends around the internet.
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Feb 23, 2016 04:53
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I don't know how someone could make a connector that doesn't fit any way you rotate it until you actually look at both the connector and the port to find out which way it goes. They did it.
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Feb 23, 2016 16:58
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Data Graham posted:Just dial 10-10-220 Oh jeez, these 10-10 numbers. John Lithgow's 10-10-321 commercials.
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Feb 25, 2016 18:52
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It's just crazy that now all my friends have different area codes and it doesn't even matter.
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Feb 25, 2016 21:53
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Data Graham posted:You have a call from Bob WEADDABABYEETSABOY Another commercial that makes no sense anymore. Also why were you people dialing 1? The only time I ever used 1 was when I called 800 numbers because there was a 1 listed in the commercial.
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Feb 26, 2016 15:17
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It's on YouTube.
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Your mission, should you choose to accept it is to make an interesting video about Windows. This zip disk will self destruct in five seconds. *CLICK* *CLICK* *CLICK* *CLICK* *CLICK* Edit: Is that OS/2? We haven't approved that yet! Don't worry, this is Windows 386. I assume this is fine even though it probably hasn't been approved either. You can use it to add pictures of the space shuttle to every page of your business report. Cojawfee has a new favorite as of 04:22 on Feb 28, 2016 |
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A couple years back some pictures surfaced online of a store in Eastern Europe. It was a computer store in the 90s that shut down for whatever reason. It still had displays advertising Windows 95.
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