Has the Internet been around long enough for Nostalgia ?
15 September 2008, 09:42 AM
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Jennycam? I think this was the name. It started as a genuinely voyeuristic webcam of a youngish woman which then went down the inevitable commercial route if I recall correctly...
15 September 2008, 10:09 PM
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i still use irc
15 September 2008, 11:47 PM
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16 September 2008, 07:52 AM
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I had an Amstrad 1640DD with a mono monitor in the early 90's. Everything was loaded up on 51/4 " floppies, MSDOS 3.0, Wordstar and Lotus123 was all you ever needed. Didn't have the luxury of a hard disk until I got a "proper" PC, a custom 386sx-16mhz with 1MB RAM and a Western Digital Paradise VGA card and a 40mb hard drive that was "double spaced" to 80mb with MS Windows 3.0 and Dos 5.0. Used to tie up the phone line for hours on Compuserve bulletin boards.
16 September 2008, 09:00 AM
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I got a written warning at work for running up a HUGE phone bill surfing back in the '90s 
The irony is: I now run the firewalls and web security systems for one of our major clients!
The irony is: I now run the firewalls and web security systems for one of our major clients!
16 September 2008, 09:37 AM
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I don't understand half of what this thread is about, there's a distinct whiff of geek in the air 
I get nostaglic for the early Scoobynet chat room days, they were fun
I get nostaglic for the early Scoobynet chat room days, they were fun
16 September 2008, 11:04 AM
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I had an Amstrad 1640DD with a mono monitor in the early 90's. Everything was loaded up on 51/4 " floppies, MSDOS 3.0, Wordstar and Lotus123 was all you ever needed. Didn't have the luxury of a hard disk until I got a "proper" PC, a custom 386sx-16mhz with 1MB RAM and a Western Digital Paradise VGA card and a 40mb hard drive that was "double spaced" to 80mb with MS Windows 3.0 and Dos 5.0. Used to tie up the phone line for hours on Compuserve bulletin boards.
16 September 2008, 11:06 AM
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I was given an Amstrad 1640HD which had an EGA video adapter, along with a 1.2MB floppy disk (later replaced with a 720KB 3.5" diskette drive) and a 20MB RLL fixed disk! MS DOS 3.2 and DR GEM originally, but I upgraded it to MS Windows V3, which I was given on a site somewhere, and it ran it well). It came as commission on a deal at work (which was bloody impressive in 1990) and was massively superior to a PC-XT that I acquired in the same way a couple of months later. That had a 360KB 5.25" floppy and a f*cking huge full height 10MB fixed disk. Both paled alongside the IBM PC-ATX that I acquired at the beginning of 1991 though. Superfast 6MHz 80286 CPU (up from the standard 4MHz) with both 1.2MB & 1.44MB diskette drive and a monster (certainly in size, it was full height!) 30MB fixed disk. It was improved at great cost, with a Hercules video adapter and a full size 16-bit memory expansion feature, adding a virtually unusable 2048KBs to the base config of 540KBs...
16 September 2008, 01:13 PM
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Ive been looking for a simple psychedelic fractal program since first seeing Fractint in 1992.
All I want to do is turn it on a see endless super-trippy fractals...
All I want to do is turn it on a see endless super-trippy fractals...
16 September 2008, 01:57 PM
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16 September 2008, 02:31 PM
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Gods i remember having a barny at the Compaq technical sales guy for screwing up the memory mapping above 640Kb. Compaq introduced CEMM (Compaq Expanded Memory Manager) that took up such a huge amount of main memory that it rendered half the software we purchased unusable... that was when I was trying to convince the managment to upgrade the standard spec to 2Mb from 1Mb.
16 September 2008, 02:47 PM
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Or here: Java Fractal Generator and Introduction to Fractal Mathematics but not too trippy.
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16 September 2008, 03:41 PM
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Used it as a backdrop to the main stage as 1 if the ***** at uni.
16 September 2008, 06:43 PM
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Bet if we started talking about Cuban heels, Jimmy Choo, Manolo Blahnik(sp?) or how many poits there are in a stick of celery you'd be well happy
Intel Above boards, QEMM386, Win/R, adding 16550 UART comm ports for better download speeds, C-DOS, OS/2.
Intel Above boards, QEMM386, Win/R, adding 16550 UART comm ports for better download speeds, C-DOS, OS/2.
Now if the convo was to turn to handbags or engines you'd have got me 
