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Alright, this is meant to be a successor to /y2k/ on the old 8chan, however I have expanded it to include both the 1990's and the 2000's and NSFW content is allowed, provided it's actually related to the purpose of this board and doesn't violate any of the site's core rules.
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>>4848
>It seems the entire webring got a boost in users.
that's not a good thing, look at 8moe /v/'s catalog now.

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>These guys think they're bad because they walk slow...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRiH3jNE7OY
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>>4935
Can you upgrade the albums somewhere if the internet history destroyer archive.org doesn't allow it?
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>>4936
>upgrade
Upload obviously. This is what happens if I'm upgrading a system on a different window while writing a post...
>>4936
>Can you upload the albums somewhere
How about Catbox?
https://catbox.moe
The website has been reliable for years, the only downside is that it randomizes file names. But that shouldn't be much of an issue if the songs are properly tagged.
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>>4938
>randomizes file names
Or just zip them up
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=aVfcXpnhswA
I was rewatching the famous Chun Li vs Vega scene from the Street Fighter 2 Animated Movie, and with all the censorship gone ("you witch" vs "you bitch") I was able to appreciate it fully. The original Japanese audio makes the scene into a more traditional martial arts fight scene where Chun and Vega fight while soft music plays, but I think the English dub is superior for using the track Ultra by KMFDM. I finally got around to exploring their music more and I've really been enjoying it; they have this odd but appealing mix of heavy industrial beats and vocals that makes me feels like I'm listening to instruments made of out of factory equipment that smells like diesel.

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Retro /tech/.
 
PDAs, pagers, old mobile phones, mp3 players.  I miss them.  They were so less intrusive to privacy.
 
It sounds really weird, but I'd love it if I could somehow still have a pager as opposed to a cell phone.
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Watch this too 

https://youtu.be/znPJZK1lwaY

Here
>A Videodisc You Can Record On - Sony's CRVdisc
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=ooiRZxtPx_Qgi
And even if you are not interested in any of that, you should still check out the Venturer rides:
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=A4ttoWK4yX8
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=O33vKqK3YdU
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I wish I could use some old phone but they shut off all the networks older than 4G here in Ausfailia
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I couldn't find a 'Retro Software General' in the Catalog. I hope ITT is close enough?

I actually used this tool as my very first way to burn CDs. I thought I was a 1337 Haxxor when my first CD actually worked!  :D
As a side note, would anyone be interested in buying some vintage tech, and knowing where I could find people interested in that stuff? Because I was scouring throw the basement and found a four PDAs (Three I cannot turn on, the last won't hold a charge) and a Sharp CRT TV (Coax only).

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>>4827
Just tried plugging one I've had for years into my W7 computer and Vista laptop, and both didn't accept the cable. Somehow newer version of Windows lack the drivers that the old eMachine I had growing up did.

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A thread for artwork and content of anthropomorphic animals characters (or "furries") from the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Sources are encouraged.

Resources:
https://yerf.metafur.org/
http://us.vclart.net/vcl/
https://confurence.com/
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>>4605
Apparently the Atlyss developer accidentally set off a minor shitstorm when some jokes he made about reducing character proportions got leaked out of context. He was actually removing/adjusting the character body sliders to improve on them in future updates, but he said something offhandedly and mentioned gooners, and the Steam forums got mad for about a day.

He'd posted a long message on Discord, then copied that to his Twitter (https://xcancel.com/kis_soft) but maybe he deleted it. He seems like a shut-in who just wants to make stuff and put it out there.

>>4916
The gay furry rat art being sold at auction was already posted years ago: >>1103
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>>4923
>gooners get mad about being called gooners 
lol
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>>3282
>Do you know of any good reading on the subject?
If you want some good material on early science fiction, QuQu did a pretty quick dive into the subject on "what happened" (With sources to other material that go into far more detail): https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=WZ3pbxp3QKU
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>>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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Which ones are your favorites?

Pic related
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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.
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>>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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My grandfather introduced me to "All in the Family" the other day, and I started binge watching it out of a sense of...how edgy it was.  Like this is something that would not come out today.
Some time ago, I was reading some old Usenet posts and thought, "Holy cow, how did this not get banned/deleted?"  Post/users like that would just immediately get scrubbed now.
I recently saw "Freddie Got Fingered" and was kind of amazed that that was in theaters.

Was the 90s more tolerant than today?  Was everything really this edgy?  Or is this some sort of weird survival bias?  The only thing today that I can think of that comes anywhere close is Southpark, but I'm not sure that counts because Southpark came out in the 90s.
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>>4581
Newgrounds was losing relevance after the death of flash, so when Deviantart and Tumblr went to shit NG pivoted to being the "alternative" art website. Come to think of it NG was always full of degenerates so I'm not too worried about them, I would only worry about the censorship culture that permeated DA/Tumblr seeping into NG.
My mom watches this sometimes and she told me that they put a disclaimer before the reruns claiming that the show doesn't represent the views of the network airing it because of how "outdated" it is despite being edgy when it was airing.
>>4516 (OP) 
As others have already pointed out, Archie Bunker's character was written as satire, much like Homer Simpson.  That is to say that media provides prescriptive rather than descriptive depictions of society.

It's a relatively small group of people who decide what to prescribe as "real", so I wouldn't put any stock in the fact that such-and-such used to be considered kosher.
Well OP, people weren't such political correct pussies back then. This is how they could laugh at someone like Archie Bunker. Now that commies have politicized everything, you can't do anything but either propaganda or something like the Care Bears.
There was some of this, sure, but the bulk of daytime TV was squeaky clean, especially the stuff on network TV over the rabbit ears. After hours (8 or 9ish) this stuff came on, especially if you had cable TV.

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Let's have a new thread without a tonne of broken images.  Have there been any new forms of /retro/ media (could be movies, games, anime, websites, etc.) that wanted to look old and actually succeeded?

There's an artist called BlueTheBone who makes "retro"-styled animations, cheesecake, and porn.  Like any modern hack, he overdoses on visual clutter and uses filters that don't actually resemble the time period he's trying to emulate - but despite that, I think his style is consistently decent.  If he relied less on computers and filters, then I think he'd be a much better artist, but that goes without saying for most contemporary artists.

The really weird things happen when he tries to make modern character designs and media look old, like pic 2.  It isn't exactly wrong, but there is something perplexing about viewing characters and series that were developed specifically with modern aesthetics in mind.
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This animator's style is a throwback to 90's WB stuff like Animaniacs. I haven't watched their 6 minute short yet but this stuff is really good
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>>4808
These capture the 90s style perfectly, the only giveaway is the clean "digital" look but even that is easily masked by the VHS artifacts (2nd video).
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>>4705
These audio tracks reminded me of this
https://x.com/TaskControllers/status/1772950602009510288
Found a great FL Studio Setup that converts audio into compressed in a way that sounds like XBox Live.
Did some of my own audio where I pitched up my voice and then put it through the "Xboxify" setup & it really started sounding like a mid 2000s youtube vid
The download link is in the comments of the tweet
The download has everything, but you may need kerovee and dblue crusher if you don't already
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Did you ever want to play an extremely limited version of Interactive Buddy with a gay furry dog twink vtuber while random Y2K electro music plays?

...no? What do you mean no?
https://coledingo.me/
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>>4911
The guy made more stuff. One of them the interactive version of a recent reaction image.

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It has come to my attention that we don't have a wallpaper thread. Let's fix that.
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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!
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>>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.

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Started collecting these recently. I've uploaded everything I've got (160+ skins) to the Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/download/windowsmediaplayerskinscollection
Most skins were retrieved from Microsoft and The Skins Factory through the Wayback Machine, although some were obtained through other means. Enjoy.
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>>4123
>SDL2
Sounds good, I'll mess with it a bit and see if I can get it just to draw the basic skin at first. It'll just take some time for me to learn it.

>How important is the JS when rendering the skins? Just being able to map the play/pause/stop/etc buttons on each skin would be a good first step.
I don't think it's vital yet, there's specially-defined XML tags for basic playback controls (playbutton, pausebutton, etc) that don't use JS.
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

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What is your favorite operating system? Do you prefer MS-DOS, Windows 3.1, 95, or something else? FreeDOS? Some flavor of Linux?
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Just stumbled upon this page full of screenshots from around 2002:
https://anders.unix.se/2015/10/28/screenshots-from-developers--unix-people-2002/
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>>4888
>digits
Interesting, thanks.
Linux mint, it just werks
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>>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 ?

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