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90% of internet in the 90s was hosted like this.
It feels like a loss that this is no longer the case.
It absolutely is
And its mostly the fault of ISPs
What did ISPs change?
They stopped giving people static IP addresses by default, which makes at home self hosting too hard for normies.
Pretty sure normies don't even know what an IP address is.
They wouldnt have to. It would be possible to build ootb applications and devices that do the setup automatically. For something like an at home cloud storage, you could just plug it in at home and it could autodiscover and pair just by scanning some QR codes or something.
Wasn't really static IP, but upload caps and bandwidth limits. And "updated Terms of Service." To your point, they started charging for static IPs or just not offering them for "home" service. In the early days (feeling old yet), self hosting wasn't shut down so much as shared hosting from home. People were running shared web and email hosts from home and ISPs didn't like that added cost and competition, mostly cost. Bandwidth was expensive going over copper exchanges.
They never gave people static IPs by default in general. Done did if you were lucky but most didn't. (In the UK at least.) Hence the existence of things like dyndns.
PSU in the top, old round keyboard and mouse plugs... I get it, you shouldn't touch anything in a museum.
... did they stop putting PSUs at the top?
Always at the bottom these days
My desktop has it at the top, as did the PC I had before it a few years ago. I've seen PCs with it at the bottom, but I've never owned one, so hearing that they're always at the bottom is weird to me.
Here you see all cases with either the PSU in the bottom, or with some in the back when it's a wide case. No where in the top of the case.
Just turn the case around. Problem solved.
But then your desktop will be upside down on your monitor, as obviously your harddrives will be upside down. Do you have any idea how hard it will be to watch upside down porn?
Just flip your monitors upsidedown.
Modern problems require modern solutions.
Problem solved.
Case closed.
Huh, I guess it is more common than I thought. I wonder how I ended up coincidentally only buying cases with it at the top if they're so uncommon.
It may be different with brand specific cases for prebuilds like Dell and Alienware (which is Dell too by the way), but it's never recommended to buy those.
Needs a blinkenlights sign
ACHTUNG! ALLES LOOKENSPEEPERS! Das computermachine ist nicht fuer gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht fuer gewerken bei das dumpkopfen. Das rubbernecken sichtseeren keepen das cotten-pickenen hans in das pockets muss; relaxen und watchen das blinkenlichten.
Is that dutch?
Gesundheit!
no, i am pretty sure it is a mix of german words + made up german sounding words + english.
I liked it XD
Lol, this is 100% Dutch maskerading as German. And it's glorious.
First time I read that was in about '89/'90 in a printed book of computer jokes gifted to me by my then mother-in-law. Still made me laugh. Thanks for the nostalgia hit.
About 15 years ago I did some work with a large international pharmaceutical company with over 2,000 of offices across the world. There was a laptop in an empty cubicle with signs like this on it. Apparently if it turned off their entire email system would go down.
Props to them for repurposing old hardware instead of tossing it to a scrap yard.
So, what they're saying is that the sign needs to be removed before unplugging anything. Gotcha, can do
There's always that one guy in the office too...
it started with a sign that only said "don't unplug the cables" and had to expand as things kept happening
PS2, VGA and RS232 cables. Takes me back..
My PC has those 😅
I had a photo kiosk at an old job that I wanted to put something like that for their USB cables. I swear you touch them during transfer and boom your download = canceled.
PS/2 port being used? How old is this image?
It could be from today. I've worked at several manufacturing facilities where something like this is hooked up to a huge ancient device with a serial cable because the drivers only exist for Windows XP and the Italian business who made the machine went out of business decades ago.
I suspect this was taken in the early 2000s, though, since the fan isn't caked in an inch of dust and grime yet.
Yeah, this is a very clean PC picture, like new (though one can absolutely still get new mobo’s with legacy I/O ports) so probably not a modern build, just an older pic.
That must be a decorative exhaust vent then.
...unzips
Unplugging goes brrrrr.
This one is too clean to be the case, but factories usually have a few computers like this.
So we broke it?
OMG is that PS/2? 😮
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2025
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