ITT: Software that used to be popular that you forgot existed

ITT: Software that used to be popular that you forgot existed.

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sea arc
pkpak

qemm

lotus123
dbase
wordstar

icq

mirc

limewire
napster
lycos ftp search

gopher

zmodem
ymodem
telix
procom

how am i supposed to contribute if i forgot what it was

eMule and all its spin-offs

WordPerfect 5.1

MSN Messenger
AOL
AOL Instant Messenger

Paint Motherfucking Shop Pro
Winamp
Kazaa (lite and such and limewire, etc.)
That old disk decryptor that everyone used for DVD's
PC gaming demo disks
Chex Quest
Windows

5000 candles in the wind, boys.

I recently forgot which unzipping program was best and downloaded Winzip. Jesus fuck I hope I don't have computer AIDS now.

It was WinRAR I was thinking of originally, not Winzip.

handbrake

I had to install this to watch the entire Sonic satAM series as a wee preteen

The files were like 7 megabytes each

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ICQ real-time character at a time chat.

Nothing like it exists today of which I am aware.

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I don't recall any

Try 7zip

people still use handbrake faggot

This

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I still used Winamp until recently. But there were some bugs that were getting annoying so I ditched it. I hope the rework sees the light of day.

DC++

>winzip

I literally just tried to install this on a retro machine yesterday and discovered that it will refuse to install because readme.txt and setup.exe have timestamps on the disk that differ by one minute.

Also,
Corel Office
Borland Turbo C++
Cubic Player
Desqview
Blue Wave Reader
PKZip
Arj

Fucking Dreamweaver man.

Also.
>Frontpage

roxio cd burner
zone alarms
windows media player
netscape

Yea people use the repository to serve malware. Anyone with an IQ above room temperature moved on weeks ago.

Soulseek.

I was surprised to see it's not dead and isn't infested with fakes/malware, the community is still sharing music I couldn't find on the private trackers, I even had some random people chatting with me about the contents of my shared directories

was eMule a Spanish-speaking countries thing? I was using that daily

>Anyone with an IQ above room temperature moved on weeks ago.
Or you just don't download the new version and use the one you already have installed. People who talk about IQs tend to be idiots themselves in my experience.

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DvdShrink
Nero burning rom

fuck me, that picture

eMule is still big among Spaniards and Chinks.

Soulseek never died.

Audiogalaxy on the other hand...

if I forgot, how would I post it?

>limewire
WinMX

Does alcohol fit in here?

Shareaza
Ares Galaxy

Wormux

>tfw you find a bunch of old files and wonder how the fuck you ever stood to watch that 10mb crap

I waited hours for it to download with dial up. I wasted by childhood...

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kid pix studio deluxe

>you're now thinking about the explosion effect

back when scene rules required xvids to be spit to 2 cd size for no logical reason

flash, shockwave, basic, vim, emacs, gcc, linux, java, websites that are not facebook, screen savers

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konqueror
msn messenger
tweak ui

i was really into aquarium screensavers
youtube.com/watch?v=-hDIlRvPa78

eMule got me into porn at a somewhat young age - once searched for some themes for my phone, found a zip with some imageset of questionable aged girl and this is how it all started
sadly few times also got some malware from there

also Cheat Engine while playing obscure web browser multiplayer gaymes

there was a p2p filesharing program that I got into after WinMX died, started with a lowercase i and had a ladybug icon. Can't remember the actual name, though.

insaniquarium and other popcap games such as bejeweled or peggle

netscape, azureus

I loved those interactive screensavers with that point-and-click elements
I especially remember one that was set in winter night when you'd have to click around the yard to get some shit to move around

kek I remember emule.
Took me like a week to download hitman 2.

I eventually moved from (ladybug program) to Ares

holy shit i never knew about this, thanks

dat bittorrent client with the frog

dumb/10

Ventrilo

As a spaniard i tell you it isn't popular here

You mean the one with ugly ass connection status icon and incoherent interface?

I actually meant the original BT client but couldn't find a screenshot of it, BitTornado looked almost the same though.

hey man, when it was shit or nothing, and nothing wasn't an option, you got shit, and you enjoyed it

>still runs just fine in 32bit windows 10

Vuze?

>had to install RealPlayer for *.rm files
>had to install quicktime player for *.mov files
>had the original media player classic for *.mpeg/*.asf/everything else
>downloading and watch 5-10 seconds clips of DBZ, Tenchi Muyo, and Ranma
>downloading random hentai clips with p2p file sharing software
>all on NetZero because my parents were way behind on the whole internet thing

Those were the days

Roger Wilco
Corel Draw
Windows 7
CDBurnerXP
Game Spy
XFire
Mahjong
Cyberlink PowerDVD
Nero Burning ROM
Hamachi
FRAPS

120% alcohol

Another one
>Install divx for .avi
Also
>download girls gone wild based on comedy central 4 am infomercials
>on limewire
>parents have dialup and dad is an on-call doctor
>3 videos took several months to finish
>still have my first girls gone wild video 4 devices later

>young
>phone theme
Then you are still young nigga.
Unless ofc. by 'theme' you mean badass ringtones for your Nokia 3210...

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windows 2000
internet explorer

I remembered one!

first image from google, man the many nights trying to find a decent server.

MediaPlayer Classic + some codec pack that was shilled on Sup Forums back in the day

Rocketdock for ricers

that thing that let you make a custom windows 7/xp/vista iso

i remember when people would pay for ringtones, and there were tv commercials saying 99 cents for the new "Usher" ringtone for your shitty dumbphone

IrfanView

As much as it pains me to say it

i still use fireworks.

>copernic search

Many people still use that.

rip in piss

>Nothing like it exists today of which I am aware.
Google docs

Core AVC

Bulent's screen recorder
Terragen
Anim8or
Sodaconstructor

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RIP to Game Spy

>Sodaconstructor
Jeeeezuu i remember this, just checked the soda zoo and its 404ing. Good times.

>GameSpy dies
>Firaxis notices
>Decides to port over both Civ 3 and Civ 4 to Steam servers
>Online lives on

GameSpy probably died because it sounded sketchy as fuck

Some games still work with community mods, Star Wars Battlefront II and Halo CE for example. Was just playing Halo CE a while back and it seems like most of the online community is now Spanish and Portuguese speakers playing shitty game types.

Brazil being 12 years behind everyone else? Never!

At some point they changed it from an online java applet with the zoo and all, to some education-marketed thing you had to download, that's where I lost interest.

Very small communities though, I would still like to play them though.
Is it worth getting BF2?

sonique
pirch

cuteftp

>vim
>emacs
>gcc
>linux

please leave Sup Forums thank you very much

sodaplay.com is on the internet archive, it seems they have even archived the java applet, miraculously enough

Yeah, there isn't really a better alternative.

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include me in the reddit screenshot

Compared to say, early 2000s linux has lost a lot of mind share user. Same can be said for vim and emacs ( microsoft tools, sublime text etc ) and gcc ( clang )

There is a vg thread with SWBII info but I'm not sure how many people are playing now. I only tried it a few times when there were Sup Forums threads.

I'll take a look. Thanks.

>icq

Fuck I just had a flashback to how I discovered Miranda IM (I believe it was a Russian botnet version of messenger) where you could just load icq.dll, msn.dll etc and had plugins such as being able to see when someone reads your away message or seeing invisible people.

I noticed a girl stalking me (repeatedly reading my away message every day) which was the first time that I had enough confidence to talk to a girl

I still use soulseek at least twice a week

it's pretty popular on Sup Forums

I believe this was just a Dutch thing. But weekly or something you could buy these for a fiver and have tons of cracked software and games

Forgot pic

Soulseek is interesting. It's almost as old as napster, it's still around, it's absolute piracy heaven and it's never faced any sort of legal action as far as I know. It seems to just fly under the radar. Maybe it's the old looking interface?