/retro/ - Y2K

Could you enable anonymous posting on usenet if you had a server with a single user whose name and password are public knowledge (e.g. anon; anon)? I mean, I see no technical reason you cannot do it right now, but I am not familiar enough with the technology and culture to decide if it would be a good idea.

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>>168 (OP) 
Vrchat , webXR, fediverse
>>176
ipfs recently been hosting dynamic dApps chats, forums with Orbitdb
https://hashchan.network 
https://plebchan.eth.limo/#/
https://plebbit.com

>>371 
we had local city wide wan ethernet 20 years ago. not much anymore.
>>4237
kewl
>>168 (OP) 
yup
>>4746

I see problem of bubbles.
Like boards/chans/webring bubbles, that are hard to escape.

thoughts:
- try non-web, p2p protocols. (dApps today is pretty wild west). Nothing scary about blockchain, or holochain. Just review the source and compile it locally.
- I'm not interested in yet another entertainment brainrot web page. I want to see project management systems where communities collaborate, create, work together. 

ah, https://radicle.xyz/ btw

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>>4943
I don't know anything about stuff like this, but Plebbit and Plebchan look interesting. How do they plan on dealing with illegal content, exactly? If it's a peer-to-peer system, wouldn't that that be a legal liability for users if unscrupulous characters decided to shit a board up with cheese pizza or whatever? I know people have mentioned that being a problem with torrent-style frameworks for imageboards and such in the past.

I can't say I'm a fan of the name either. Reddit will always be Plebbit to me.

>>4945
Never mind. From what I've just read, their way of getting around that is that they don't actually host images themselves.

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>>4612
The subtle background continuity for each of the characters had great payoffs in later seasons.
- Malcolm goes from middle school to high school to considering college and potentially getting into foreign exchange programs.
- Reese discovers he's an incredibly gifted cook, but has more fun beating up nerds so he squanders his potential.
- Dewey gets put into a class for emotionally stunted kids and turns to music in order to have some kind of emotional vent.
- Hal's company gets investigated for CEO embezzlement and everyone conspires to pin the blame on him, but because he's been such a bad employee over the years he physically couldn't have done what he's been accused of.

I think the only real exception to this is Lois getting pregnant and having another kid, although I suspect that was due to Jane Kaczmarek having a kid IRL.

>>4612
>>4613
The webms only have background music and sound effects, no speech... Are they supposed to be like that?

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>>4614
Must be a browser issue on your end. They played fine on my machine in MPV.net and the opera.webm is working on LibreWolf when I play it here. 

joke.mp4 and eggs.mp4 don't load for me, either inline or when viewing the source. Perhaps these webms will work.

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They're all playing for me now.

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Just saw the Double Dragon film, and it was unironically a very etertaining movie. Yes, it was silly and extremely stupid, but it also had something "earnest" about it inronically enough. Much more so than all of the recent productions that try to "replicate" that cheesiness of 90's sci-fi and fantasy films.

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And with this the batch of retro wallpaper I have actually downloaded for future use is dumped completely. I had some other, but their resolution is not the best. The oldest ones are from spring 2008, which was exactly the time when 1080p became available to people with way too much money for a flat screen monitor. at the time, still had been using my old CRT monitor that I have autistically slapped full of stickers.

>>4895
Nice dump, Anon. Thanks!

>>4252
The most ubiquitous resolutions for mid 2000s was about 1024*800 or 1280*1024 if you went really crazy on CRT. The most common wide screen at the time was 	1440*900 and 1600*1024. Latter once again if your really went crazy. Full HD wasn't as quickly adopted for Computer Desktops as in the living room where CRT TVs were dying like flies. Usually due to wear or simply incompatibility  with HDMI which most media player and 6th gen consoles used for displaying sharper images.

>>4908
Thanks.

Just stumbled upon this page full of screenshots from around 2002:
https://anders.unix.se/2015/10/28/screenshots-from-developers--unix-people-2002/

>>4888
>digits
Interesting, thanks.

Linux mint, it just werks

>>4890
I use it for that reason, but I don't consider it ideal or anything.

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Why not the Amiga-OS ?

>>3639
One of my favorite shows, if not my #1 favorite. Like >>3640 says you'll either love it or hate it.

>>3634
I remember watching a few episodes of Lexx as a kid, didn't really gravitate towards it at the time. I remember a few years ago coming across streams on CyTube and thought about actually giving a series a try. Definitely love the link you provided. Going to have to back up my HDD and make space and download some shows from that period, starting with Lexx.

I wonder, is Inuyasha worth trawling for fics?

What are your top-3 fanfics ? The ones you enjoyed reading the most or that you keep coming back to

>>4863
I was never really on the edge of my seat reading fanfics, and "these were to my taste a quarter-century ago" is not much of an endorsement, but...

Some madman made a crossover of Duke Nukem and Neverwinter Nights.  I'm pretty sure it's lost to the ether now, but when I was grabbling FFN and AO3 archives from IA, it was the only thing I specifically sought out.

There was also a Diablo/StarCraft crossover, which is still up: http://theboojum.com/Tales/Dumptruk/HellCraft/hellcraft.htm

>>4814
>2012
ahem not retro :^)
My email account is from like 2002

>>4814
>>4816
Mine's from 98, Yahoo.

>>4814
I believe its from 2008, I forgot any older ones.

>>4816
I made my gmail acct when it was in beta, I'm guessing that was ~2004, off the top of my head?

>>4105
In my case, I got locked out of the account because I didn't give them my number.
Next time, I'll try to give them another throwaway email to confirm.

>>4132
Same. Fuck microsoft.

>>4814
Weeb and scanlation forums from '08, 09
They're dead but some are still online, I visit them occasionally like graveyards

>>4513
>driving a 23 year old car
What's wrong about this one. Cars from 90's and 00's are about the best ones, having just the right amount of electronics and tech while still being quite repairable.

I'm not sure. I will always like things that are old compared to the present moment because that's what shakes out of all the torrents of trash. In twenty years we will still be here pining for what we don't yet know was gold in 2025. I look up psytrance music that was made before I was born because all modern psytrance sounds exactly the same and surprisingly often has Rick and Morty voice samples, which I find obnoxious.

>>4651
I have never had the misfortune to encounter such samples. How do they even use it?

>>4670
How should I explain it to you? They're cringy voice clips of Rick talking and burping interspersed throughout the FL Studio default percussion presets. They've been in every non-Goa psytrance mix I've loaded up since 2020, so I just turn it off and see what 90's Israeli psy is worth listening to that I haven't heard already.

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>>4494 (OP) 
1. If you enjoy older things, that doesn't stop you from enjoying modern ones too, even if less.

2. A lot of times the older alternative is the cheapest, with things like emulation of retro video games, in this economy it's not a bad thing to prefer older things that are cheaper and/or you already own.

3. It's natural to prefer things we're already familiar with due to the sense of safety we get from it.

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>>4077
hi thar rHAd mai name is //\\TerboDworf//\\ and i am a dworf irl, tha tmens 'in real life" , normally i doun liek teh emoz but u seem cool do u wanan be frenz?/ :O
i like 2 b a snekky dowrf who stayz in teh dark  , so maybe im a little emo maiself :PPP

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On the topic of old funposting, I was troubleshooting some Windows issues several years ago and I found pic 2 on a Windows tech forum. Truth is stranger than fiction, it seems.

>>1956
jnco or die

>>2123
S&M jnco's

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I was a warez d00d, in the 90's. I started out on BBS's and got to hang out with some warez board sysops and one time I brought my PC to their house because that was the quickest way to upload files to them. Fun fact: my 14.4k modem could transfer a 1.44 MB floppy disk image in 15 minutes. But I was running DOS and so during that time the PC was unavailable for any other tasks. I also tried my hand at running a BBS, but it didn't last very long, because like I said DOS only did one thing at a time. That was before I found out about Desqview, which was basically a multi-tasking hack add-on for DOS. And by that time I was already on Internet, so didn't care about BBS anymore.
On the Internet, I of course did more warez, especially since now I was free of daily upload/download ratios. I spent lots of time on IRC and at one point joined a scene group that did warez releases and ANSi art. I don't want to say which, but it wasn't one of the bigger ones. People used to trade warez directly on IRC via /dcc or upload the files to some FTP sites. Most of the time the FTP site admins had no clue their FTP was being used to store warez. It was usually hidden in strange or invisible directory names with embedded control codes for obfuscation. We had lists (txt files) of the currently known FTP sites with the exact strings to type for accessing the files. Usually they lasted quite some time before the site admin caught on (probably from all the extra bandwidth usage). We also had lists of

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>>2068
> mallcore
Uh uhhuhuhh huh. I think he means like Winger or something. xD

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>>3405
>The internet has always had its own speech patterns and common phrases, the difference now is that the main population driving language evolution has become normalfags who view the internet differently (in a more casual way) to those who were around in less user friendly more technically oriented times.
Yeah, back then a lot more of it felt like in-jokes that were relegated to certain sites or parts of the Internet other than the basic Interweb speak most people could understand. Nowadays it's a relative handful of big sites influencing online language. I will say that even a lot of older memes didn't age that well either, but at the same time I feel like people could communicate better without stuffing their writing to the gills with a bunch of unfunny rhetorical cliches. Am I really supposed to be amused by "Sir, this is a Wendy's" after seeing it for the thousandth time?

Also, I just learned a few minutes ago that Mike Matinee just released a video where he mentions just the phenomenon I'm bellyaching about.
>The whole lolcow community is anons LARPing about how normal and not lulzworthy they are right?
They actually seem to be more self-aware about their autism than they used to be; I'll give them that. The old lolcow imageboards were a lot more fun and less faggy though, even if they were arguably more spergy.

>>3405
>The whole lolcow community is anons LARPing about how normal and not lulzworthy they are right?
I haven't visited the site in a long time, and while it is filled with 'anons', it was infamous for the goon atmosphere that it had, especially with the hatred of all things anime.
>>3408
Am I really supposed to be amused by "Sir, this is a Wendy's" after seeing it for the thousandth time?
I feel like this is a huge problem because nobody ever wants to articulate themselves anymore. All they want to do is use the same smug snide comment for the one millionth time in a row and get their upboats so that they can feel socially validated for being an obnoxious retard. I understand why people on the internet are getting more and more hostile and combatative as the years go on. This kind of environment where nobody wants to truly talk to one another and instead use dumb one-liners only festers that kind of climate.

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>>2564 (OP) 
>seen twin towers or witnessed 9/11, even if you were 3 or 4 back then?
1996 here, so I was in kindergarten.
I don't remember much of that day beyond school ending early and me going back home to play some Crash Team Racing or Tomb Raider, blissfully unaware of the events that happened. My parents might have been in the living room watching the news, but at that time news and politics just seemed like boring old people activities, so I didn't bother investigating.
My parents nor my school never told us what happened, and I only found out a year or two later.

>>3303
This board is specifically designed with millennials and Zillennials in mind. It’s 1990s/2000s nostalgia, I.e. those ideally born between 1985 to 2001 are welcomed here to express their reminiscing about their younger years during those two decades. 

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>>3403
I don't see how someone using that phrase makes them a bot any more than saying some other online colloquialism like "n00b" or "normalfag" makes someone a bot, nor do I see how one could deduce that anon watches YouTube kids just from their comment alone. That's quite a reach and blindly talking down to them in that fashion doesn't help anyone. Anon is an old fart to enjoy himself like the rest of us here, not to be shat on. All this started just because someone politely wished to claim that they don't jive with the Zoomer label and wish to be referred to as "Zillennial", then the thread devolved into whatever this shitshow is.

>>3404
To be honest I personally don't care what lingo or terminology is being used. Whatever you can say to get the point across, as long as everyone understands what we are talking about. I see plenty of people here using certain phrases that the average person has no clue what it means. Even "lol" is not everyday speak in real life. 

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I ended up going down a 9/11 rabbit hole recently, and it put me in a pretty bad state of mind. I saw someone making an offhand mention of the allegedly lost "lol superman" gore video, and that piqued my morbid curiosity. I considered myself pretty jaded about the attacks due to memories of all the maudlin imagery and cheap virtue signaling that was everywhere right after 9/11 (and that helped justify America playing world policeman and getting even more people killed), but I didn’t really know the grisly specifics of what happened. I remember people jumping to their deaths, but I never thought much about it. I'd never considered what became of the jumpers' bodies when they hit the ground, that people in the vicinity were in danger of being killed by falling bodies (intact or not) and rubble, that the whole area was strewn with body parts, or that emergency personnel might come across victims of the attacks whose lower bodies had been turned to mush but still weren't completely dead. I ended up coming across some footage where you could hear bodies thumping as they hit the ground and an old /x/ thread that had been archived and included some pretty graphic images. Part of me is glad that these things have been brought to my attention, but another part feels like I would have been better off not knowing the gruesome details.

I posted earlier in the threads about not caring at all about 9/11, so it’s kind of weird that I developed a bit of an interest in it decades later. I 

>>4413
I love Duran Duran!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbFAUFTMtLE

>>4420
I had no idea that they did Rio, let alone that they liked Nagel's art.

>>401
I would've tried to live in that. Maybe I am deranged, but looks quite appealing to my senses.

>>4412
Vietnamese nail salon art?

>>4809
It looks kinda fancy or glammed up (even if dated) - I can see how the ladies dug that stuff. I kinda enjoyed the haircut experience for the same reason - never had enough coverage for pompadours and such but big crazy hair always sounded cool to me.