allywilson
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- Comment on is it spelled "grey" or "gray"? 4 days ago:
piss assholes off
piss off assholes
;-)
- Comment on What was the internet like before Y2K happened ? 1 week ago:
Well, I guess there was 1 PC for the whole family. Analogue modems would scream as they talked over wires. A lot. If you picked up a phone in the house, you would hear the scream of not just the modem, but the person using the internet to put it down.
A lot of people had their own homepages hosted on Geocities or Angelfire - which were like free-form expressions of your facebook profile. Utterly abusing HTML and GIFs.
And to communicate with your friends, you used IRC, MSN Messenger, ICQ or AIM. All of them, as some friends wouldn’t be on one or the other.
You searched for information using Alta Vista, Web Crawler, Yahoo!, Lycos or Ask Jeeves.
Your email address usually ended in @hotmail.com or @yahoo.com (and regional variations, like .de or .co.uk, etc.), BUT, you also had an email address from your ISP (so aol.com, freeserve.co.uk, free.fr, etc.) were really common.
Listening to music was different. You would search for MP3s (people would ‘rip’ songs from CDs into MP3 format and upload them) using free services like Napster (the OG), then WinMX, Limewire, eDonkey. and you would listen to them using an audio playbook like WInAmp (on the family PC). MP3 players (like the iPod or Zune) were just starting out I think, so you tended to get MP3s and then burn them to a CD so you could listen to them in your car, or in your portable CD player, or even your HiFi.
Streaming video wasn’t really a thing, as modems are too slow, but, you could download movies (it just took FOREVER) and they would almost always be the worst cam quality you could imagine and compressed as much as possible.
Using Linux/Unix was really a huge pain as most of the modems were actually Winmodems so none of the manufacturers would provide binaries or modules for anything other than Windows, so they were almost always reverse engineered - and it was just a pain.
I could probably ramble on for longer, but this feels like a good place to stop and say “get off my lawn”.
- Comment on What was the internet like before Y2K happened ? 1 week ago:
Probably a reference to there being more than just HTTP. There was protocols like Gopher and tech like Usenet which were kinda precursors to HTTP and the WWW for information sharing/reading/communicating.
- Comment on Do office going men still wear suits in the US? 2 months ago:
Blue jeans, blue blazer and brown shoes is the norm nowadays.
- Comment on holy moley 2 months ago:
Hear me out…
How do we know it wasn’t a peaceful person leaving a hand written note begging for no more datacentres, when their nemesis, Dr Datacentre, drove past and started shooting at him?
- Comment on spoopy figs 3 months ago:
2nd paragraph: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertilizer
- Comment on You trying to give me a heart attack? I have warrants for chrissakes! 3 months ago:
I’m in the UK, we have different siren sounds than the US - and I still do this when I hear a siren on a song by a US band or artist.
- Comment on The radical woke subliminal message in Bad Bunny's halftime performance 4 months ago:
I heard it was in reference to the Puerto Rican governments initial death toll caused by Hurricane Maria (en.wikipedia.org/…/Hurricane_Maria_death_toll_con…), which was…a very low number.
- Comment on Righting the World's Wrongs 5 months ago:
Yes, please don’t name it “chinense”
- Comment on Day 424 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 8 months ago:
Did you play it on the Wii or the port on the Switch?
- Comment on I present you: the Boden Seal 10 months ago:
“u bout to get ask” what is this, !aneurysmposting@sopuli.xyz?
- Comment on Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask? 10 months ago:
I’m out of the loop I guess. What’s happening?
- Comment on Is it just my area or has this been an insanely humid summer? 10 months ago:
UK: Had 3 heatwaves this year so far. And it’s always humid :-(
- Comment on Baldur's Gayte 1 year ago:
Reminds me of the old “Are there more doors or wheels in the world?” question
- Comment on Trump admin announces plans to shut down the Energy Star program 1 year ago:
As a Yuro, the only time I think I used to see this was on older American Megatrends BIOS POST screens.
I take it it’s similar/the same as the energy efficiency ratings by the EU?
Do manufacturers provide those same ratings when selling in the US? More like, they supply both to both regions when selling a product (easier than removing 1)? Just thinking of alternatives.
- Comment on Microsoft teases pay-to-patch plan for Windows Server 2025 1 year ago:
kpatch (redhat) is in the kernel, it’s not behind a paywall.
- Comment on Microsoft teases pay-to-patch plan for Windows Server 2025 1 year ago:
The greed is insane
- Comment on SSL/TLS certificates will last 47 days max by 2029 1 year ago:
This raises a good point. The path of least resistant typically becomes the norm.
- Comment on LC vibe check 1 year ago:
To do what?
- Comment on Birth control: US scientists develop world’s 1st male contraceptive pill 1 year ago:
Birth control: US scientists develop world’s 1st male contraceptive pill
There’s nothing world 1st about this.
- Comment on Birth control: US scientists develop world’s 1st male contraceptive pill 1 year ago:
Title is blatantly wrong.
- Comment on the duality of beetle 1 year ago:
That’s really interestng. I assume it’s the left photo from above and the right photo from below.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gynandromorphism
Genuinely an interesting mutation, it’s weird that it’s listed as happening in Rodents but not other mammals? Is that just a numbers thing I wonder?
- Comment on where the magic happens owo 1 year ago:
I can’t remember specifically, I think it might have just been that the ghost image on the floppy was confirmed to work, and all the desktops were allowed to boot from floppy already and not necessarily via USB.
- Comment on where the magic happens owo 1 year ago:
Oh yes, I was using a 3.5" floppy disk drive with a USB connector in 2007 to kick off imaging on desktop machines as no one could get the ghost boot server working.
- Comment on where the magic happens owo 1 year ago:
- Comment on puts hair on ya chest 1 year ago:
Wait a sec, I was told American’s don’t use the metric system…
- Comment on Let me at 'em!! 1 year ago:
I mean, this happened once: iaea.org/…/meet-oklo-the-earths-two-billion-year-…
- Comment on Platypuses 1 year ago:
So it seems: livescience.com/41661-why-platypus-wont-regain-st…
- Comment on Firefox search box jumps focus to address bar 1 year ago:
That’s…Awesome! Thank you!
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