David August ❌👑😝
Context: https://youtu.be/jvFYgELj2X0
Third spruce tree on the left
Thor A. HoplandZero context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYgUkGVwWxk
Ha-haaaaaa! Cookies on dowels.
Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)@davidaugust Now I've got memories of the early days of RealPlayer. ~1997 or so.
I recall B105 (still going on 105.3MHz WFM, but were barely worth listening to then, I don't bother today), advertising they were now streaming, so tried it out. Yeah it worked, but audio quality was barely tollerable and it consumed most of the 28.8kbps dial-up link.
Pelle Wessman@davidaugust Those specific instances are gone, but the patterns "thankfully" repeats themselves over and over ;P
@voxpelli they really do.
I AM BANKSY ☕ / 🗑🔥@davidaugust I was doing so well. It's been YEARS since I thought about frames.
I think I'm going to logoff and go back to bed in case anyone needs me.
@xinit I understand. Rest well.
@davidaugust <MARQUEE>thanks!</MARQUEE>
Jennifer@davidaugust how about Mosaic? Does anyone remember that first web directory? I was so excited about it. 😆
Kelvin n0mql EN35ld
Aletheia@davidaugust
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Open relays, plaintext telnet, AOL bringing the Forever September. 3day !paths to free some megs., xhost+ and Zephyr bombs. Trolls and conspiracies glittering in USENET. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Open relays, plaintext telnet, AOL bringing the Forever September. 3day !paths to free some megs., xhost+ and Zephyr bombs. Trolls and conspiracies glittering in USENET. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
Jan Walzerso tell me, what was wrong with frames?
@jwalzer off the top of my head, that you could fairly easily crash a browser or machine by nesting them was not great.
thats an issue with the browser not the frames. we still have iframe today, so recursion is a solved issue.
@jwalzer the browsers at the time did not have wholly unique rendering engines.
That’s like saying the problem with a car that crashed at high speed into a concrete wall is with the wall and not the car.
A distinction without difference.
xchange@davidaugust buffering...
Peter@davidaugust <blink></blink>
tuxflo@davidaugust Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be on the web.
Wintermute_BBS@davidaugust how about punch-cards, core memory and tape spoolers?
@Wintermute_BBS truly old school.
MikeKI've used all of those, plus Usenet and email addresses with bangs.
@mkarliner @davidaugust a true master of the art! 👍
This is the first system I worked on professionally.
https://oldcomputermuseum.com/intellec-8.html
Connected to a paper tape reader and an ASR33
@mkarliner @davidaugust Wow, this is interesting. A development system for 8008 systems. Were you invloved in the design process of that CPU or the systems based on it?
I wish.
No, just a 19 year old tasked with making a system to measure parameters of military antennas
@mkarliner @davidaugust I see. Still sounds interesting, must have been a privilege to work with the leading edge tools of the time
Yes it was. But the mainframe programmers I talked to at the time had no clue what I was talking about
Kay@davidaugust @garra Thanks for making me fell old XD
Baron Walschap@davidaugust Back in the old days, when we had Clippy to hold the frames together.
@BaronWalschap he made a valiant effort.
Adam Trickett 
@davidaugust I remember browsing th'Internet before Netscape... Mosaic for X and if one managed the correct incantations it even worked over Windows 3.1 with IPX and TCP/IP at the same time...
In those days Netscape was just one of many and MSIE didn't even exist...!
okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin@davidaugust
Wanting to make a phone call, but a14.4kbps modem is screaming on your only analog line
Wanting to make a phone call, but a14.4kbps modem is screaming on your only analog line
Amro has been
jhhl@davidaugust As a Gophermaster, I approve this message. Bless your little Java Applets and Flash pages.