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Very interesting article!

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[-] superkret@feddit.org 155 points 1 year ago

This is the Internet I miss!

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 99 points 1 year 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 73 points 1 year ago

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

[-] whostosay@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Name verified

[-] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year 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 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

Wikimedia Commons!

[-] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Good shout, thank you

[-] Interstellar_1 9 points 1 year ago

Unsplash is great if you want photography

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[-] MinFapper@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago

It's unfortunate, but AI image generators will make exactly what you want, royalty free.

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[-] kalpol@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 69 points 1 year ago

Nice find. Really whips the Llamas ass.

[-] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 62 points 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 8 points 1 year ago
[-] el_abuelo@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] jonkenator@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Musicmatch! I thought I was the only one!

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[-] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year 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 16 points 1 year ago

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

[-] itsralC@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year 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.

[-] Interstellar_1 5 points 1 year ago
[-] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
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[-] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

This is like finding digital time capsules. Very interesting.

[-] Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year 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 18 points 1 year ago
[-] Plopp@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year 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.

[-] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

Nah, browsers are sandboxed to absolute shit it is such a pain in the ass to make an extension just to do a phishing attack or to buy the ownership of one to introduce malicious code.

At most an extension with really broad permissions like read/write contents of any page (a fact that is made obvious upon installation) can replace a link to take you to a phishing page to harvest creds, but thanks to SSL and HTTPS it won't even work without fifty some odd warnings

[-] Plopp@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

You live by that and I'll live by the advice I've seen from infosec professionals that recommend as few add-ons as possible due to security concerns. But yes, browsers are getting more secure over time and that's good.

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[-] victorz@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

People not having the Wikipedia app baffles me. Sharing from there gives you reasonable links.

[-] mr_satan@monyet.cc 31 points 1 year ago

Why use an app when there's a web site? In case of Wikipedia I fail to see any functional benefit for an app.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Better reading experience overall. Compartmentalizing all my Wikipedia reading so as not to mix it with my other many open tabs. (Wikipedia app has tabs, too.) Sections are not collapsed by default. Easier to search on the page by default than in the browser.

I can probably go on it I made a more in-depth comparison after using the web version for a bit...

[-] bitfucker@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

The app has offline capabilities and to save articles on a named list. I use it as a reference when forgetting something or to save the list type article as a starting point when researching a software to use. Or just generally a reading material when on the go (yes, I find reading wikipedia articles entertaining)

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[-] Plopp@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

There's a Wikipedia app? I find that baffling.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago
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[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 24 points 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

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[-] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Boom! Headshot!

[-] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[-] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

That was truly strange, awesome

[-] andrewth09@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

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

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year 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.

[-] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year 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.

[-] josefo@leminal.space 11 points 1 year ago

what a great article

[-] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

That's really cool

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