/retro/ - Y2K

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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
(Source of the image cut out: a WMP 8 ad. I used the Snipping Tool to screenshot this which is the reason why the quality probably sucks. Sorry.)

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

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