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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/technology@lemmy.world

Very interesting article!

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[-] superkret@feddit.org 155 points 3 months ago

This is the Internet I miss!

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 86 points 3 months ago

What? You don't like browsing the web, where everyone is shoving politics down your throat, and making violent hostile threats, and everybodys offended over baby names, and the web is like 3 websites big???

You don't LOVE that?

[-] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 74 points 3 months ago

Please accept the cookie policy before any of that stuff...

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

Sign it, sign it now!!!?

[-] whostosay@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

Name verified

[-] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Try finding a nice desktop background picture of something specific. It's all just links to subscription based stock image sites.

If anyone knows places to search for freely shared images that would be amazing. Just wanted a whale shark photo in 2K..

[-] kamiheku@sopuli.xyz 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If anyone knows places to search for freely shared images that would be amazing

Wikimedia Commons!

[-] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Good shout, thank you

[-] Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 months ago

Unsplash is great if you want photography

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[-] kalpol@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

It is still there, just not picked up by Google or Bing.

[-] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 70 points 3 months ago

Nice find. Really whips the Llamas ass.

[-] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 63 points 3 months ago

This takes me back to a simpler time.

A time of playing Total Anihilation and hanging on MSN messenger.

Does anyone remember musicmatch jukebox with the jumping sheep visualisation?

[-] el_abuelo@programming.dev 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Oh god musicmatch was soooo good, it was my daily driver while everyone else was using winamp...something about whipping unsuspecting animals in the ass.

[-] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 3 months ago
[-] el_abuelo@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago

So much nostalgia right now. I wish we could go back to those days!

[-] jonkenator@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Musicmatch! I thought I was the only one!

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[-] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 41 points 3 months ago

This is pretty cool, although it makes me feel old.

I can't imagine anyone younger than 30 would even get what this article is about.

[-] Wootz@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

Actually, I'd love to hear from anybody younger than 30. Does this article make sense to you at all?

[-] itsralC@lemm.ee 30 points 3 months ago

I am not at all representative of my age group (I am on lemmy ffs), but yes, I do know what winamp is/was.

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[-] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah? Dude got some corrupt skins for the Winamp program back in the day that didn't work and poked into the files to see what was in there.

Makes me wanna check out WACUP, but last time I tried a skin with it that I at least remember working back in the day, it didn't work.

Idk maybe it's because I'm not American so we didn't have the latest tech at all times, but I'm in my mid-20s and my first OS was Windows 2000 (no I don't mean ME). I remember my dad teaching me how to rip CDs with Alcohol 120% when I was 5 or so lol.

[-] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 months ago

I'm under 30, I have no idea what winamp is but I figured it's some music software from the skins' pics. I imagine it was popular for it to have a museum thing about user created skins

(I haven't googled anything yet)

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[-] Plopp@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago
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[-] Mojave@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Bro people know what hieroglyphs and wax Edison cylinders are. People know things, winamp is not some obscure hidden knowledge

[-] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Wasn't implying it was hidden knowledge.

I was thinking about the zeitgeist of different generations in context of computing.

[-] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 33 points 3 months ago

This is like finding digital time capsules. Very interesting.

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 24 points 3 months ago

What a great read. Thanks for sharing.

I wonder if a "KOOL" tube is a tube for smoking a cigarette out of (I remember that being a brand).

[-] Menschlicher_Fehler@feddit.org 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Oh wow, I never heard of the skin archive. This is fantastic.

I still use Winamp 2.95, with a Pure Pwnage skin I downloaded back in the mid 2000s. Added it to the archive.

[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 3 months ago
[-] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Boom! Headshot!

[-] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Such a lovely post, a nice distraction from all the doom scrolling articles! I wish we had more of this.

...

I should write a happy news moderator bot for my instance.

[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 22 points 3 months ago

Post the Flintstones image, you coward!

[-] Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

Oh for fucks sake, now the article itself has a misplaced mobile Wikipedia link and there's nowhere I can quickly see to put my copy paste about it.

copy paste for context:

Please, anyone who reads this, stop posting links to the mobile version of Wikipedia. It doesn’t switch automatically on PC, and I see it happen all the time. Just take the half a second to remove the “.m” from the beginning of the link, save everyone else from the pain of having to be surprised by it and taking the time to do it themselves.

[-] hellothere@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 months ago
[-] Plopp@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

General infosec tip: keep your browser add-ons to the absolute minimum you can live with. Add-ons are attack vectors. The more you have - the more at risk you are. And only install the ones you have a reason to trust.

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[-] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 16 points 3 months ago

That was truly strange, awesome

[-] andrewth09@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

If you want to see the Flintstones R34 image you have to the crack the file yourself.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 months ago

Eventually I figured out that the password needed to be lower case. Inside were a bunch of .avs files

https://fileinfo.com/extension/avs

.. is a configuration file used by Advanced Visualization Studio (AVS), an audio visualizer for the Nullsoft Winamp media player.

[-] josefo@leminal.space 11 points 3 months ago

what a great article

[-] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

This is a truly fantastic story. It reminds me of why the Internet is cool, if you dig deep enough, there's always treasure to be found.

[-] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 3 months ago

I think audacious can load winamp skins (and xmms skins).

Will try at some point.

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[-] camr_on@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

That's really cool

[-] laserkaspar@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Really enjoyed the ride, very interesting. Thanks for sharing!

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