Nostalgia thread

Nostalgia thread

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U.S. Robotics
Soundblaster
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Quantum Fireball

Dot matrix
Z-modem
Zork
Turbo button

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NeXTSTEP
WWW Catalogs

athlon pin jump overclock
fsr videos
kazaa/limewire
msn messenger new message sound

PSP + Monster Hunter FU + local multiplayer

idk why our computer class lady told us to only use AskJeeves back in 2001ish.

Was it the best back then, or did she fall for a protomeme?

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Y'all just lost.
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I'll do you one better.

Remember the Mozilla Suite?

classical art
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We had to use altavista back in computer class

You mean Netscape and the email program they made . . . uh, thunderbird?

Nope, the actual "suite".It included a browser (Navigator), email & news (Communicator), web design (Composer), IRC (ChatZilla), address book, and some other shit like a JS debugger.

Communicator? Was that the email client they had? It's been so long and I had to use Outlook because of the office back then.

This logo always made my inner pixel art autismo rage. So fucking poorly executed.

That morphed into Seamonkey. It is still in development. Though releases have slowed down recently.

Yeah. I remember using it a bit before and after Firefox came out. It was really heavy, but it was because it reserved RAM for everything. It also could run in the tray.

Good times. That was the first program I ever used for IRC.

I remember when I didn't have an internet connection yet but tons of CD ROMs of computer magazines that had those Netscape suites on it.

I slapped together some laughable shit content and told to myself I'm BROWSING THE INTERNETS.

Those where simpler times...

I knew Seamonkey existed, but didn't think it was still being developed. it's just not the same without that horrible theme and button animations...

>hat was the first program I ever used for IRC.
That reminds me of another nostalgia.

-Kazaa
-Nero CD burning software
-totse

It was the last time before everyone figured out what the internet was. Around the earliest days of Myspace.

Simpler times, indeed.

This is a good nostalgia thread.

I'M A SCATMAN

Nero! Oh, man! I still have images I ripped of Starcraft and Broodwar, then later converted from .nrg to .iso. Still have the CD key, too. They were a friend's, and I wanted a copy.

I think I had Nero Burning ROM 8(?), which had come with a $20 LiteON CD-RW, DVD-ROM drive. My first. I was using a Pentium 2 then.

Remember how the chip for PII's was so large, you could cool it with nothing but a giant heatsink? My hands got so cut up from those...

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>opens notepad
>hey guyz today im goin to teach u how 2 hack windws

>Unregistered Hypercam 2
>640x480 resolution
>Dreamscape 009 soundsystem
>bliss as background
>windows movie maker effects
>white letter on lightblue background
>typing in notepad
>"rate 5 stars please" while an arrow is pointing to the right

did I forget something?

>Nero CD burning software
I wasted a lot of money to burn my anime into DVDs because my HDD was 80GB.

>typing in notepad
I'm glad this shit is over.

Poor copycat.

>nostalgia
back in my days it was a thing to tell people to get the passwd file in /etc on any FTP server, and trying to crack it with.. uhm.. Jacktheripper or something like that

IBM 386 running Windows 3.1

>opens notepad
>hey guys todat
>hey guys toda
>hey guys today im goign
>hey guys today im going tos how
>erases everything
>hey guys today im going to show u how to install custom theme using windowsblinds . . .

I don't even know why I have such strong feelings for MSN Explorer. I hardly used it even when it was new. Maybe it's because it's impossible to go back now since you can't get past the sign in screen.

>WinMX

>new chat message

>"YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE CRANK UP YOUR CONNECTION AND STOP LEECHING, ASS"

>tfw only had 56k and just wanted those 15MB of big fat catgirl titties from him

OMG, I completely forgot about MSN Explorer. It was my main web browser for years!

I fail to understand how fake-3d was ever considered visually appealing. This looked like absolute ass.

How much for your MSN mail addy?

is it wrong that I prefer these aesthetics over the current shit?

I have FrostWire on my phone today.

$10 paypal

>download song
>they have some dumb fucking intro from a radio station or some dumb nigger DJ

Thank god we have music streaming services in 2016.

Ah, good ol' classic YouTube.

one teacher i had allowed all search engines except askjeeves, because 'you could ask it questions'

I used Magic ISO a lot. Does anyone remember that?

Napster
congratulations you won, you won, you won
Andkon arcade
being scared of email viruses
crank calls
bbs
scary maze
oregon trail
soundblaster

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>fire off WINAMP 2.9
>music starts playing
>suddenly

>BBBBBBBRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

FUCKING ISA SOUNDCARD IRQ CONFLICTS

That shit looked so futuristic, back in the day.

>porn ad popups that popped up on a different corner of your screen when you tried to close them

if it even still exists --- $15 paypal

annotations everywhere

I miss graphics card artwork. Sapphire used to do it. I really miss it!

AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Okay:

The standardization of widescreen.

I am finally doing filmmaking in a first world country, which has always been my dream. That means I am 8 years olver than 90% of the people in my course.

We have a 90sec assignment to do for the summer on something personal, whatever that might be. I'm gonna do it on my teenage years from a screencapture point of view.

My first machine in 2003 was a Pentium4, Riva TNT2 32mb and 40gb HDD with 512mb RAM running Win98 SE.

Gonna mount a Virtual Machine and do it like that. Shame MSN is no longer working (all servers down) so i will have to use AfterEffects a lot more.

Thanks for reading my blog.

No. What is wrong is how Microsoft switched from plastic to glossy aesthetic during the middle of XP's life cycle. I puke a little every time I see the update from WMP 9 show up in my virtual machines.

Gloss was a mistake.

It feels so long ago... I think I played it on an Athlon XP.

fuck you and your metro UI shit that has plagued us.

I miss 3D. Apple was the last to ditch the 3D icons

... What is there now to fill the void? Rs gone to shit, Sup Forums doesn't waste enough of my time, I need something else

how can someone be this white? is she allergic to the sun?

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One of the reasons I actually like MATE on my Linux systems. You don't need glossy bars or transparency to look good. Just don't do the whole dotted line thing Microsoft favored for their win9x themes, and don't go for the shittiest, most neutral grey you can. I've always felt Microsoft fucked up theming.

tldr; there's nothing wrong with a simple theme, Microsoft just sucks at this. Pic related - a simple theme.

OSRS or, well, move on with life.

>download song
>"HELLO MY FELLOW AMERICANS I WOULD ONCE AGAIN LIKE TO ASSURE YOU THAT I DID NOT HAVE SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH THAT WOMAN"

Drowning Pool - Bodies
Evanescence - Bring Me to Life

WAKE ME UP

WAKE ME UP INSIDE

quad gtx 480 sli was considered top tier

TIFF as a primary image format because JPGs or PNGs didn't exist

CAN'T WAKE UP

>Evanescence - Bring Me to Life
I actually like that song a lot. Still on my playlist till this day, along with Everybody's Fool.

>tfw you finally wake up

SAVE ME

*wake me up inside

sorry

1) get one of the new AMD performance cards, the ones that is a black box with a single fan at the end
2) take a good screenshot of your skyrim waifu up close or whatever
3) go to a professional printing shop and say you need a print on an adhesive
4) cut to shape
5) profit

you know what to do

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I was actually v& for doing this

Got a lot of passwords and got free dial up from my ISP

People complained they couldn't log in and found me on their account

I was only like 15 or 16 and I'm not sure why I resorted to stealing dial up accounts instead of having parents pay for internet

AlienGUIse gave me 2014 style GNU/Linux rice in XP circa 2002.

Got to like ~LVL60 when i was a kid and stopped playing, this game was fucking hardcore

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i hoped it would go into the windows empty frame with cant load picture icon when it lost connection while loading

Worst fucking feeling ever.

>quad gtx 480 sli

golly geez.

only if you had a fire brigade next to your house

Searching the Web through directories, spiders and other early search sites like Hotbot and Lycos.

TIFF is still a good primary image format because it's lossy unlike the other two you listed.

>Nostalgia
aka reddit-posting

What? JPG's are lossy. TIFF can be both.

Shit I remember when someone told me you could have 2 x800s in your system. Blew my fucking mind.

PNG isn't lossy too, just compressed

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Ah the good old days where I wasn't born yet

We were supposed to use "clusty" lol
The librarian wore a clusty hat every day