Tina Stormcaller

@TinaStormcaller@icosahedron.website
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She/Her, DJ, VJ, broadcaster and demoscener.
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Tina Stormcaller18h ago
Vaneshi18h ago
Other half demanded I post this...
Tina Stormcaller22h ago
Mrs Beanbag23h ago
inventing a new music genre which is a combination of drum and bass with drone music. it's called humdrum.
Show threadTina Stormcaller1d ago
@Natasha_Jay i think there was one episode where the coyote had dialogue, but just reads out a business card describing himself as a genius
Tina Stormcaller1d ago
JA Westenberg2d ago
People are shocked to discover they need to fact-check ChatGPT and I'm having the uncomfortable realization that they never fact-checked their uncle's Facebook posts, their friend's medical advice, or literally anything Google's top result told them, and suddenly the last decade makes sense...
Tina Stormcaller1d ago
Kewlio: gideo vames?!1d ago
YOOOOOOOOOOO #StopKillingGames
Tina Stormcaller3d ago
Vaneshi3d ago

I was literally about to hit purchase on The Alters when the announcement it did in fact use GenAI and the studio will continue to use it dropped.

Guess no Frostpunk 2 either.

That's really fucking annoying, I was looking forward to playing them... welp back to Mechanicus 2 hype I guess.

Show threadTina Stormcaller3d ago
@3a29 If Englebert Strauss didn’t want ravers and hackers and demosceners to wear their stuff they shouldn’t have made it go so fucking hard
Tina Stormcaller3d ago
Sir Garbagetruck3d ago
I'd like to remind everyone in my thread calling me a Millenial for running Wayland that only my beard qualifies as millenial.
Tina Stormcaller4d ago
Sutter4d ago
Low-key lost it when I noticed the main image on the Wikipedia page for business casual attire is just an edit of the nude figures from the Pioneer plaque
Tina Stormcaller4d ago
luna, only carbon now4d ago

me: maybe i'll go out today and finally shoot my new* camera!

(* 80 years old)

the great british weather:

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Dennis Faucher  Jun 27
Hard to find the original, but I love this
#BladeRunner #Gopher #AltaVista
Show threadBufordMJun 27
@dennisfaucher Snort!
🤭
Show threadKzad_BhatJun 27
@dennisfaucher what.. no love for the flash apps.. 🤡
Show threadNeromabeneJun 27
@dennisfaucher The struggle to uninstall RealPlayer was real. It was awful, you'd be hard-pressed to find something worse.
Show threadNatasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸Jun 27
@neromabene @dennisfaucher The struggle to get rid of all the browser "search bars" on your parents' conputer?
Show threadNeromabeneJun 27
@Natanox @dennisfaucher A worse player than RealPlayer. But yeah, thanks for the memories; removing those "helpful" "search bars" is essentially a family tradition apparently.
Show threadPasswordsarehard4Jun 27
@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.
Show threadbytebroJun 27

@neromabene @dennisfaucher

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 😀

Show threadWill 🏳️‍🌈Jun 27
@neromabene @dennisfaucher I still awake in the midst of the night, shaking with remembrance of trying to uninstall Real. 😉
Show threadTiago HackbarthJun 27
@neromabene @dennisfaucher bonzi buddy?
Show threadMinisterofimpedimentsJun 27
@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…
Show threadmndflayr  Jun 27

@dennisfaucher

The time to die for RealPlayer is long past.

Show threadTats 🇬🇧🫖Jun 27

#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.

Show threadDavid PhdJun 27
@dennisfaucher Installing your first Java applet ticker
Show threadRémi CardonaJun 27
@cmsdengl @dennisfaucher ActiveX plugins... [Wilhelm scream]
Show threadAl & Val's Modern HomesteadingJun 27
@dennisfaucher But have you ever tried to download a file from a BBS using a 400 baud modem? "Mic Drop".
Show threadWesDymJun 27
@alandvalonline Do you mean 300? Because I've done that. Never heard of anyone using 400 baud. Maybe you meant 2400?
Show threadAl & Val's Modern Homesteading6d ago
@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.
Show threadPaolo AmorosoJun 27
@dennisfaucher And WAIS, Finger, Archie, Veronica...
Show threadMaj1 THE Neuro Spicy SquirrelJun 27

@dennisfaucher @mpm Now this is a test of your nerd / geek levels @adhdeanasl

No imposter syndrome if you get all the references! 😁

Thanks to Dennis for posting & MArk for boosting - made me laugh … I have a version on my pinned posts.

Show threadGilbert PilzJun 27
@dennisfaucher Playing DOOM in a DOS window on OS/2 while your code compiled in the background.
Show thread ShalienJun 27
@dennisfaucher line by line loading of pictures
Show threadLord Caramac the Clueless, KSCJun 27
@dennisfaucher I never really tried to _un_install RealPlayer, but have you ever tried to configure RealPlayer for Linux under SuSE?
Show threaddundeeJun 27
@dennisfaucher feel the pain...
Show threadjohnrohdeJun 27
@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.
Show threadDennis Faucher  Jun 27
@johnrohde What every happened to "Do No Evil"?
Show threadGanbatteJun 27

@dennisfaucher @johnrohde

they 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.

Show threadDavid "Dave" TreloarJun 27

@dennisfaucher

Yeah but that was when the web actually became something, there were times before that you know.

Anyway, what does it matter now, all long gone history, sure it was interesting to live through it all, but I do think it is amazing what has been created, at the start no-one had any idea it would be like this, we just had some fancy notions of what it might be like, they were mostly wrong.

Show threadbwsJun 27
@dennisfaucher marquee! Gone for good!
Show threadAlison MeeksJun 27
@dennisfaucher Was talking about a fond memory from IRC yesterday. My first encounter with a person online that made a huge impression on me.
Show threadwendivibeJun 27
@dennisfaucher Funny, I’d actually forgotten about those self replicating windows. Ah, good times!
Show threadTormodJun 27

@dennisfaucher

Which 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.

Show threadDennis Faucher  Jun 27
@airwhale Awesome. Thanks.
Show threadZenHeathenJun 27
@dennisfaucher Spider, Geocities, newsgroups...
Show threadKeith WilliamsJun 27
@dennisfaucher single-pixel gifs...everywhere!
Show threadjhhl6d ago
@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
Show threadDennis Faucher  6d ago
@jhhl That is so beautiful
Show threadjhhl6d ago
@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?
Show threadDennis Faucher  6d ago
@jhhl Perfect
Show threadDennis Faucher  6d ago
@jhhl I was inspired and created a gophermap including a PHP front end to Ollama chat :)
Show threadanthony6d ago
@dennisfaucher Was anyone able to punch the monkey?
Show threadMoe Lassus6d ago
@dennisfaucher multiplayer PC games over the IPX protocol
Show threadessjax6d ago
@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 😩
Show thread🐻 Midtown Masochist (RB-050)6d ago
@dennisfaucher
... niche bulletin board sites
Show threadgio6d ago
@dennisfaucher @LibertyForward1 Flash, the horror that was Flash....
Show threadChantaru6d ago
@dennisfaucher knowing the exact path to your favorite sites on Yahoo.
Making websites ( with frames) in notepad after reading "Learn HTML in a week".
Show threadJon PENNYCOOK4d ago
@dennisfaucher I still remember when Yahoo and Lycos were University projects and were shut down