/retro/ - Y2K

>>831
The one where I live went out of business recently. It's sad, but I was glad it was able to hang on for so long.

Some of my fondest early childhood memories include renting Super Nintendo games from a Family Video store.

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>>475 (OP) 
It's odd... on one hand, what we have now, especially if you consider the ease of piracy aswell, is essentially my childhood dream, and yet, now that I have it, I yearn for what I once had, at a time where I longed for what I have now... is the human being just impossible to please? Is it just nostalgia? I'm not sure, but perhaps I simply overestimated how good having infinite choices was, and the limitations made something like a single choice for a weekend feel like the most special thing, anyways I do miss them.

>>475 (OP) 
I don't. While I have fond memories of them, torrents are more convenient and free.

>>5135
I wouldn't want to go back to rental stores, but it feels less meaningful to me to being able to get almost anything I'm after on the Internet.

>>4861
To be honest I think it's mostly nostalgia. Going to the rental store was a fun ritual and all, but I don't miss not finding my favorite movies or those rare films that never made it to home video. Plus the constant audiovisual issues that plague VHS tapes were a complete killjoy.
If you want the VHS renting experience today just go to the internet archive and browse the VHS rips collection, pick a movie at random and watch it. You'll find a lot of low quality garbage but also some nice hidden gems, at least that was my experience.
If you ever visit /vhs/ you might stumble upon some of the reviews I wrote

>>5058
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fukuoka down

In general what do y’all think was the best 90’s-2000’s era site

2ch since there is so much stuff that has come from it.

>>4924
Hey, they aren't gooners, they're shortstack appreciators and men of culture.

>>4925
>blue furry avatar talking at camera
Hmm.
>from a tiny channel with 2K subs whose last video was 7 years ago
Okay, it's probably legit then.

>>4925
I think I saw that even before I even made that post, but thanks anyway for posting it. I couldn't remember what the video was called.

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The artist behind Studio Tanuki who made Bunny Maloney (AKA Pinpin Le Lapin, AKA Lupin III if he were a horny French rabbit guy) has made a new website:
https://studiotanuki.com/

There was a pretty big resurgence in Bunny Maloney interest from some viral video essays a year and a half ago, so the creator has been trying to ride that wave. He's quite active on Twitter and Bluesky, mostly Twitter, and he's been trying to contact the networks to ask if they can take the hard drives with the lost episodes out of storage, or to otherwise confirm who actually owns the series and what can be done with it.
https://x.com/studio_tanuki_
https://bsky.app/profile/bunny-maloney.bsky.social

>wtf is bunny maloney
Animated show from the late 00s with a Frutiger Metro aesthetic. It was broadcast in a bunch of different languages but its lasting impression is the dichotomy of looking like a young kids' show but having humor and characters that would fit in a show for teens. There are a lot of dick and sex jokes, bodily fluid jokes, and references to surprisingly old anime. In the original PinPin Le Lapin Flash animation there's 

>>4976
Kinda similiar design to Groove Armada music video

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>>4982
Update: the creator was contacted by Mediatoon, who have the episodes in HD and will be uploading them to this YouTube channel in the coming months. There was actually a bit of confusion about this at first since they started uploading stuff without contacting him, but he's confirmed it's the real rights/media holders. Lost media coming back from the brink.

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=qnaP_7iHjkk

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>opherVR is an enhanced Internet Gopher client that includes a 3D visualization tool for viewing resource collections as 3D scenes. It explored how people outside of formal research laboratories could use spatial metaphors to access information.[1] The 3D view was intended to be similar to 3D games of the time, like Spectre.[2] The authors were interested in how this spatial representation could address the "lost in hyperspace" feeling that people using conventional Gopher clients sometimes experienced.
Most of the links are dead, but it would be interesting to see if you can make it work today.

>>5122
Forgot the link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GopherVR

AI generated web 1.0 wiki
https://grokipedia.com/

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Only Internet memories are vaguely watching my dad and brother use a BBS, and seeing others typing in real time in an actually instant messenger that doesn't exist anywhere anymore as far as I know, then timeskip from the mid-90's to early 00's and been active online since.

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>>5081
Why miss it when you can go to Marginalia and Wiby, or hell IRC and Gopher and BBS and Usenet, RIGHT NOW?

>>5020
I guess they just book a big space and then people come in and set up tables and booths with displays.

Unfortunately, it's full of weirdos and unshowered people. They're not 100% of the attendees, but a significant portion. I guess in hindsight it's stupid to expect anything else, but somehow in my mind I expected Computer Chronicles sort of people and not smelly discord people.

Nevertheless, it was still fun. I got some magazines and a couple bits of hardware as well.

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>>801
Do you have a personal favorite tracker? I should have asked that before. I'm also curious to hear more about your thoughts on the early FL Studio versions and how they compare to the later ones. I first started using the program in the late 2000s, and FL Studio 11 is probably the version I feel most comfortable with.
>>4972
After mulling it over for a few months after I made this post, I ended up chickening out and buying a Hapax instead. After using it a little bit, I feel like it was absolutely the right decision. I'm still in the beginning stages of digging into it, but it's been really easy to learn so far. What scared me off about the Cirklon was not only the added cost, but the fact that it seemed like it would be a hassle for chord-based music and take a lot of willpower to learn. Maybe the Cirklon's aux events have more depth than what the Hapax can do, but the Hapax still makes it really easy to create evolving patterns. One of the first things I did when I got it was to create a simple line on one channel and copy it over to another channel with a slightly lower elasticity setting to create a phasing effect like in Steve Reich's music.

On the negative side, I think it's going to take some fiddling to get old MIDI files I created imported due to the pattern length limitations. I haven't been able to get USB MIDI to work and have had 

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One day it would be cool to be 100% analog. Or at best no digitech beyond the 80's, so an IBM running MS-DOS as a private BBS and usenet and IRC server would be okay. Kinda wondering if it'd be cool to get a satellite only GPS if I ever decide to go nature night walks or haunted urbex with an old camera that doesn't have any kind of wireless connection.

>>5111
Oh yeah, for nearly 15 years now I've had hooked up to my past three computers these 80's style boombox speakers that sound mighty fine to me especially when I crank the bass. I don't care to hear any fancy new audio than this, especially since I picked these up from goodwill for maybe $20. No $600 surround sound for me, especially if it's backdoored and needs "updates" to its touchscreen OS.

>>5112
You can have pretty much the same experience with a big, phat dumb stereo system. They are still being made. And they are still expensive as shit. Thank God for AKG clones.

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i heard the around the world WUBWUBWUBWUB remix at the gym again today and now i'm mad

>>5012
I argue all remixes are terrible. I work with a guy that's too cheap to pay for a streaming service or buy albums but won't pirate, so he'll download remixes and covers as a loophole. I've heard enough butchered music to cement my opinion.

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>>4281
>>5012
>>5013
Never underestimate the power of a good remix. Ignore all the modern trash and listen to these.

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Do old internet remixes count?

>>4933
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Wormy, from The Dragon (what TSR's Dragon Magazine was originally named). But I was too young to read it from the beginning, I only found some back issues at local library. And the strip was already gone by the time I started buying the magazine in the late 80's. The author suddenly went MIA, and they replaced it with some very lame and boring comic strip featuring a chick with big tits (but that alone isn't enough to make a good comic). So I guess the new one was probably drawn by Larry Elmore, but I can't remember the name because it was so incredibly bland and boring.
Anyway now it's easy to find the entire Wormy saga in PDF. I guess they made it easy for us when they released (for sale) all the Dragon 1-250 issues on CDROM a long while ago...

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>>5103 (OP) 
I got hand-me-down comics from my older brother back in the '90s. I remember a few contemporary Superman issues. Archie too. There some black-and-white comics in what I believe would be considered digest form (I think there was an Archie one and ones with origin stories of Popeye and Superman) as well as some older comics I don't really recall. Those ones were old enough that they had those classic old-school ads. Pic related is one I always thought looked cool, but after seeing what the actual product looked like as an adult, I don't think I would have liked it as a kid. Speaking of ads, I had an Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade comic as a kid that had this Metal Gear advertisement that made me want to play the game. I was disappointed when I got around to trying it and it wasn't an action game like I was expecting. I think I mentioned that story in a different /retro/ thread. That ad is one of the main reasons I can remember that comic. Later on I remember even having one of those Kool-Aid Man comics. I'm not quite sure when that was. I'm positive there are more comics that I'm forgetting.

My mom had a pen pal who lived in England, and she was kind enough to send my family a bunch of British children's comics when I was like 10 years old. Like The Beano and that sort of thing. I really liked them. They felt like a breath of fresh air compared to the usual superhero comics. I rec

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Here are some gag comics I have just remembered.

>>13 (OP) 
It kind of still is? Jurassic World is still out there, and there are games like  Dino Hazard: Chronos Blackout and Dinosaur Fossil Hunter, and there's band named Victorius that has at least two albums about dinosaurs and another band named Ultra Raptor, et cetera...
I mean, it might be not that mainstream, but mainstream today in general is a weird thing, as I really wonder who can even enjoy 90% of mainstream content. Yet obviously someone enjoys it, since it refuses to die out.
But among the non-mainstream stuff, dinos are still quite a big niche. You just have to dig for it.

I've got some dino stuff saved here and there but most of it's way earlier than from 90/2000s or even the 80s.
>>4640
I think the "feather wars" might have split a lot of people on whether dinos are cool or not. Pop culture wise people prefer dragons to big birds.

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>>5039
In my own experience, it goes even further than that. I realized as I got older that I preferred the really antiquated depictions of dinosaurs over what it seems they were actually like. Especially the more fantastic versions from pop culture.

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>>4640
>you just have to dig for it

>>3522
Found the Prehistoric Shark doc.
https://archive.org/download/shark-week-prehistoric-sharks-dc-1998

Does anyone know if its possible to retrieve the streaming radio list and station infomation from winamp/realplayer/wmp?

I want something like this for VLC. Not too many choices apparent so far.

Lol, google sucks now.

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I know I'm very late to this but you're missing this default skin. I remember this one but it's not on here. thanx if you add it, and it's okay if you can't :D
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i love you

Here's some random 2hu skins I happened upon.
http://munyumunyumoo.nomaki.jp/

>>2653
As far as I know it's kind of a neutral zone. Sure, there's trannies and furries all over the front page, but there's also a site for a /pol/ podcast and one from a self-proclaimed incel, and they've been around for a couple years. I'm not sure if it's because the admins are apolitical enough not to care unless you're spewing "NIGGERNIGGERNIGGER" or making legitimate threats, or if they only come down on you when you start criticizing trannies. Or if no one's reported them yet and I've probably jeopardized both sites by mentioning them.

>>2655
The last blogpost is from 2019 so it might be on autopilot, could be tested by violating the TOS with a burner and reporting yourself from another burner.

>>2659
How about no? There's absolutely no need to push the site admins' buttons like that. Neocities is most probably running on autopilot so let's keep it that way.

>>2640
fc2 looks like the only half-decent one and its like 80% either bots or indians

>>2627 (OP) 
>>2640
anyway, nekoweb is the only alternative to neocities i have ever encountered, but if neocities is too woke for you then i doubt youll prefer nekoweb

theyre individual websites, its not like you can get cancelled and tossed like its twitter