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Frames! I had forgotten about those...
*EDIT- Woo! First Front Page! Thanks for taking the trip down memory lane with me! Can't wait to check my inbox to see if the rumours of Bob and Vagene are true!
Stay classy San Diego!
(also, scroll to the end of the comments to click the YouTube link - the old dialup modem handshake sound... *sigh*)
Yanghelium
Turbo button
GeminiBattle
Limewire FTW
FriendlyNeighbourhoodSatan
Dont even get me started on limewire.
Gonorrheus
Watched Blade Runner again this week, cried at the speech... as always
davesrandomstuff
Two seconds, I have to Ask Jeeves something.
SoftcoreFavorites
Thottbot. I remember.
Vespy
WoW, before Thott had enough to be usable, was like... your server was like... discovering a new continent for the first time in real life.
Voltrondestroyerofcpu
Mother fucking real player. I had to remove it line by line of code. Accidentaly took out a window 32 file. Lost it all.
mr8kc
Real player did one good thing... it made me look for something else, which ended up being WinAmp.
waddyaknowjoe
Bonzi Buddy
Molotovbliss
Esheep.exe
moneaone2002
The Vic20, or Commodore 64 and the massive upgrade to the Apple 2e. 5 1/4 floppies to play montezuma's revenge.
jethroismaxbaer5772
CompuServe. Angelfire. Geocities.
CanadianPapa
My first website was on geocities!
pterodactylptime
Ask Jeeves
KobeBurger
I was thinking the other day that Ask Jeeves would make a cool voice assistant.
bassclarinetl2
Oregon Trail on Apple ]['s
LiterallyYourMom
[Quake gif] [Rotating skulls] Welcome to my Angelfire page! ORIGINAL CONTENT DO NOT STEAL! [hit counter] [under construction]
sumgai0
My teen years, lol.
YarTheBug
ifrybaconnaked
I can still hear the connection cry of my 14.4k modem...the excitement...
pieter42
I was there. I SAW it ALL. I know what whips the Llama.
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pieter42
You have passed the test, you are True
LiterallyYourMom
I still use Winamp. It's a good, simple music program.
pieter42
Did get a bit crazy there at one point though
hankdogg
BBS door games.
Cranbananarama
Self replicating pop-ups...oh god... *has flashbacks filled with Window's dings and goes fetal*
nintyuk
Well good thing your not in tech support for older software.
GreaterDog
Coming back to your computer starting up, only to find it had a floppy in the A:/ drive and wouldn't boot
djangojazz
UMCP 1996: Ethernet can boost speeds to an incredible 256k in some dorms! Get a PCI card from the library though for your PC to use it!
nintyuk
I will now regale you with the song of my people: BRAGNDERDNEEEEERRRRSHHHHHGGHCKKKKDEEERRRBRANG
SirBarnabusMontesforteWinsomTheThird
OOOO *pip*oo*pippip*oooooo
graffiti62
Looking at porno on dial-up.... THAT was the real struggle!
MyBigMouth
Real Download Manager so you can resume your download after reconnecting when your 2 hours ran out.
Stilgod
That shit saved my ass downloading Metal Slug and DBZ fansubs.
PutaLittleSpittleOnIt
Winamp mIRC and many more!
SirBarnabusMontesforteWinsomTheThird
mIRC is still super useful.
mtimothy
I remember when you could download music from the winamp site.
gadamit
Still proud user of both. Just saying. .. and Shoutcast.
abitskeptical
Mardem Khaleel-Bay?
junked
Wimamp still whips the lama's ass!
UserNameWasNotTaken
56k was at the cool kids house!
Stilgod
As long as that house didn't receive a phone call.
frogglogger
Was this posted on google+ ?
CanadianPapa
Keen eye! Another nostalgia some would say.
Cheomesh
I only use mine when I publish Blogger posts...there's another tech going the way of the dodo hah
Britlex
Oh God I'd managed to forget real playee
CanadianPapa
As well you should!
FrancoUnAmerican
iT's still installed btw.
Randomice
How about Tape cartridges, 8" floppy disks, 300/300 baud modems, Hercules cards, NEC V20s, Teletext systems, BBS systems.
SirBarnabusMontesforteWinsomTheThird
Prestel. Good times.
mattrixk
My first mp3 was 9MB November Rain off a mate's BBS. It took 3 hours.
FirstAidPoetry
I ran my first BBS on AmiExpress, a 2400 Hidem modem and an Amiga with 1 MB of RAM and a 20 MB MFM disk.
MoreAshyThanLarry
How about writing FORTRAN programs on punch cards?
Randomice
Okay, I am old. But not that old.
AkoSuminoe
There are a few bbs systems out there still and IRC is kind of like teletext
handparty
AIM shut down recently so we moved to irc
Hardalor
I legit have downloaded a few BBS games I played to goof off with, for myself. They're not the same alone...
Molotovbliss
I do recall 2400 to 9600 was night & day. Oblivion/2 BBS galore.
CanadianPapa
Amazing film! +1 for you!
Goldenbeer
Tape is still used to this day as a back up solution...
Randomice
True. But the tape cartridge I started with was a foot long, half a foot wide, 2 inches thick, and could hold 42 Kb. (that is bit, not byte)
Goldenbeer
Oh yeah, no doubt. I was more commenting how we are still using it as old as it is.
CoolHandTim
I ran a BBS out of my college bedroom for a few years. Even had a 'secret' warez room with nearly 20 megabytes of software inside!
Cheomesh
"Yeah, BEN STEINS WAREZ was the name of that one!"
dembonz00
Zip drives, Jazz drives...
ijustimguredtosay
leaving your alt.binaries download going all night just to get the non-shareware version of Wolf3D
sciencebasedlifeform
I think you and I used alt.binaries for very different reasons....
ijustimguredtosay
back in those days I still got my porn from magazines and VHS lol
benicetoyourparents
Nice reference, fellow replicant.
RxFukitall
You've never witnessed a miracle
teakasaurus
WARHAMMER405
We are so happy you found us.
LordTacoManTheSeventeenth
Had a film text today and this was one of the quotes for our essay prompt
LordTacoManTheSeventeenth
I was wondering how far id have to go to see the blade runner reference
benicetoyourparents
QUIT THAT CLASS. LEARN A TRADE. BECOME AN ELECTRICIAN OR A CARPENTER, HOME BUILDER. MACHINIST. YOU WILL NOT HUNGER IF YOU 1/2
benicetoyourparents
CAN EMPLOY YOUR HANDS TO CREATE FOR INDUSTRY, HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION, OR SHOVELING SHIT TO FEED YOUR FAMILY.
LordTacoManTheSeventeenth
I would but im planning on getting a PhD in history and teaching
benicetoyourparents
oh well, you'll figure it out while you try to make ends meet through the off months.
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
Not to mention Napster and Kazaa. Or the neverending trial of WinRar - oh wait, that's still going on.
habisteez
Best file names for kazaa sexbritneyeminemsarahmichellegellar
westo48
Limewire too
RozzAMcGee
WINAMP (winamp winamp), it really whips the llama's ass
thelaaaaaw
WinAmp with Shoutcast
altPOTUS
How the fuck could you forget Limewire?
ByteCooled
Limewire
soapydux
Pkzip in my day on top of Dos 6.2 installed from 358 floppy discs
Mikeiller
I used bearshare myself
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
lol forgot about that one. I used it as well :-)
arvar
Aah, kazaa, was totally forgotten it. I downloaded, you know...stuff with it.
Arsikere
same. it was my first Stuff downloader... ah the memories
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
Lots of vira to be had through Kazaa as well. Taught me a thing ot two about taking precautions and security.
Arsikere
i used Kazaa. did anyone else download those corrupted music files that were half a song and then suddenly crazy, scary noises?
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
Right, almost forgot about that. Those corrupt files were the music industry fighting back against piracy.
CarbyAu
Who uses WinRar?!? 7zip people. Get with the program.
ijack
Don’t forget Limewire...
RiceBeansAndChicken
Went through a few computers because of that shit. Worth it
mtimothy
Limewire was great when you wanted to give your computer aids lol.
SirBarnabusMontesforteWinsomTheThird
I've bought an entirely different pc, I'm sure it's still infected from limewire shit.
thedarkcanuck
Remember those files that were like "Immigrant Song covered by Metallica, Korn, AC/DC, Pantera, Iron Maiden, Slipknot, and Led Zeppelin"?
HisDudness
And it turns out to be porn.
Thirdy
7zip it is
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
I prefer WinRar. I always disliked the 7zip icon.
Thirdy
and i disliked winrar layout and pay request. whatever floats your boat.
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
I usually ignore it for a month or two after a new Windows install, then just crack it.
imshibagel
I used grokster. Hipster af
SirPoopyButtholeTheFirst
I remember a time when you could get trials of some software that used your system clock to run out. You could simply change your date back.
bigshot1232
I heard someone bought WinRar.
redredgreengreen
https://youtu.be/lX_pF03vCSU
freezingpilot
I bought it, I like to imagine everyone in the office had a party. http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/426/861/d7b.png
youraveragedeveloper
I did, I used it for like 5 years... I support developers when I use their products, though it took me 4 years to buy, I finally did.
RelartOfGivia
Yeah, I bought it once too. I will send a donation to Wikipedia someday also.
2fligh2high
ThySausagePrince
I had a moment of guilt from all the warez I downloaded that I did once pay for Winrar.
Compendyum
Dc++ anyone?
theacidtest
Napster actually bought Rhapsody. It’s a great streaming app
SonjaJamaisVu
Was anybody using soulseek or was it just me?
Lee1604
Me too!
BenjimanStickyLiquid
Ahh yes. Napster... Nothing like giving your PC herpes just to listen to an Evanescense song..
TheShittierBeatles
That was Limewire for me. Computer AIDS was a real thing.
deskrubbit
DLing porn from a BBS... waiting to get enough lines to guess what it is a picture of.
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
I downloaded my first porn from a BBS. Before I knew that dialing US numbers from my country was expensive AF. Parents were MAD!
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
They never found out what I actually downloaded though. I claimed it was a demo version od Doom II, they believed me. I paid the bill too.
deskrubbit
Wow! Now thats some expensive porn! +1
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
Indeed. Adjusted for today's currency value, it was about $50 for a few dirty pictures.