Dennis Faucher 
BufordM@dennisfaucher Snort!
🤭
Neromabene@dennisfaucher The struggle to uninstall RealPlayer was real. It was awful, you'd be hard-pressed to find something worse.
Natanox 🇺🇦🇵🇸@neromabene @dennisfaucher The struggle to get rid of all the browser "search bars" on your parents' conputer?
@Natanox @dennisfaucher A worse player than RealPlayer. But yeah, thanks for the memories; removing those "helpful" "search bars" is essentially a family tradition apparently.
Passwordsarehard4@neromabene @Natanox @dennisfaucher grandma, I don’t know what you mean by “the internet is too small”. I’ll be over this afternoon, I’ll take a look at it then.
Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱Aw... I was oddly fond of RealPlayer. It basically just worked, and it filed my music collection in the 'correct' directory structure because it used the *name* of the tracks rather than the mp3 tags, so to get things put in the right place, I just had to name them correctly 😀
Tiago Hackbarth@neromabene @dennisfaucher bonzi buddy?
Ministerofimpediments@dennisfaucher …seems legit. Honed my combat skills on 4-player Doom death matches. I’m not the only person who ever walked into a 24 hour computer lab with cables to hardwire four PCs together.
The rise and fall of AoL. Linkpages, dancing gophers, 3.5 inch floppy discs, sharing MP3s (and bitmapped porn), MUDs, Hack, and the glory that was SGi…
The rise and fall of AoL. Linkpages, dancing gophers, 3.5 inch floppy discs, sharing MP3s (and bitmapped porn), MUDs, Hack, and the glory that was SGi…
Juffo-WupThe time to die for RealPlayer is long past.
The Tattooed Nonna 🧙♀️#AltTextForU irwin
@irwin
l've seen things you people wouldn't
believe. Gopher, Netscape with
frames, the first Browser Wars.
Searching for y pages with AltaVista,
pop-up windows self-replicating,
trying to uninstall RealPlayer. All
those moments will be lost in time,
like tears
in
rain. Time to die.
Al & Val's Modern Homesteading@dennisfaucher But have you ever tried to download a file from a BBS using a 400 baud modem? "Mic Drop".
WesDym@alandvalonline Do you mean 300? Because I've done that. Never heard of anyone using 400 baud. Maybe you meant 2400?
@wesdym Probably. It's been a few years since I used one, but I do remember when the 2400 baud came out I was excited.
Paolo Amoroso@dennisfaucher And WAIS, Finger, Archie, Veronica...
@dennisfaucher Playing DOOM in a DOS window on OS/2 while your code compiled in the background.
Shalien@dennisfaucher line by line loading of pictures
Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC@dennisfaucher I never really tried to _un_install RealPlayer, but have you ever tried to configure RealPlayer for Linux under SuSE?
dundee@dennisfaucher feel the pain...
@dennisfaucher God I'm old, I also lived through that time.
A time where McAfee were cool and innovative, where Google were a scrappy startup commited to not being evil.
I even remeber a time where MicroSoft were cool and IBM a bunch of clowns.
A time where McAfee were cool and innovative, where Google were a scrappy startup commited to not being evil.
I even remeber a time where MicroSoft were cool and IBM a bunch of clowns.
@johnrohde What every happened to "Do No Evil"?
Ganbattethey tried to hold the phrase in their hands but dropped the word in the middle on the floor and left it there and at that.
bws@dennisfaucher marquee! Gone for good!
Alison Meeks@dennisfaucher Was talking about a fond memory from IRC yesterday. My first encounter with a person online that made a huge impression on me.
Wendroid 🇺🇦@dennisfaucher Funny, I’d actually forgotten about those self replicating windows. Ah, good times!
TormodWhich original?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tears_in_rain_monologue has the exact text, and I've attached the first instance I have found of this meme.
@airwhale Awesome. Thanks.
Keith Williams@dennisfaucher single-pixel gifs...everywhere!
jhhl@dennisfaucher I'm running a gopher server, gn, on my raspberry pi. It's serving a 1996-ish copy of the server I used to run on Echonyc.com
@jhhl That is so beautiful
@dennisfaucher If you have a command line and good old lynx, it can act as a gopher client! So just type lynx gopher://arty.fish and you can see it.
Since it's gn, it can also be accessed via http://arty.fish:70, but where's the fun in that?
Since it's gn, it can also be accessed via http://arty.fish:70, but where's the fun in that?
anthony@dennisfaucher Was anyone able to punch the monkey?
essjax@dennisfaucher I remember that altavista was a search engine, and alta-vista was a hardcore porn site, as I discovered accidentally once in a busy open plan office 😩
Midtown Masochist 🐻 (RB-050) 🐷@dennisfaucher
... niche bulletin board sites
... niche bulletin board sites
gio@dennisfaucher @LibertyForward1 Flash, the horror that was Flash....
Chantaru@dennisfaucher knowing the exact path to your favorite sites on Yahoo.
Making websites ( with frames) in notepad after reading "Learn HTML in a week".
Making websites ( with frames) in notepad after reading "Learn HTML in a week".
Jon PENNYCOOK@dennisfaucher I still remember when Yahoo and Lycos were University projects and were shut down