/retro/ - Y2K

bros I got a 13" CRT after I lost my old one. it's in good condition and I found the proper remote for it on eBay and I also got rabbit ear antennas and a digital converter box for it. I'm so excited

I use forums/messageboards or at least imageboards instead of social media

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Hi guys, OP here. In the past week I sourced a 17" CRT monitor in working condition. It's sharp enough though some adjustment would help. I think if I adjust the focus it'll be pretty sharp usable at 1600x1200. For now, I'm using it at 1400x1050. 

I also got a device that lets me use a landline phone over a cell connection. This way, if I'm at home, my calls come in on my cordless telephone. (pic related)

>>4245
Very nice anon, I like the functional over flashy design of your cordless.

>>4246
thanks! It's not my photo but it's a Panasonic Easaphone. Same model. Range is decent, I can walk around the house with it, and of course it works well right next to the base station. No answering machine, which would be cool. I might try setting up an answering machine later.
If I get a call on my cellphone while I'm at home it'll ring on my cordless like regular landline. And placing calls from it works as well.

I need to rearrange my desk for my new CRT monitor. I'll probably keep using my 1600x1200 Viewsonic LCD as my main monitor since it's better for text clarity.

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>>3937
I miss when Halo was still relevant and good

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January 1st, 2000! Life on the first WEEK of the new millenium!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuGKt5f3rAE

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News At Ten Clip - Understanding The Information Superhighway (1994)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGB-4CxM8KE

>>3854
Sacchan was a good boy.

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原宿・表参道　1999
平成１１年、1999年の様子。
原宿、表参道も様変わりしました。　同潤会アパートは表参道ヒルズに。
あの店は？あのレストランは？
同潤会アパートの裏の通りにちぃっちゃなジュエリー屋さんがあったけど・・・。
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUoIk0ZdknE

Tokyo in 1999
Some raw footage I shot on a VHS cam back in 1999. Mostly of Shinjuku, Roppongi, Odaiba and Shibuya (maybe bits of Harajuku, Ginza and Akihabara too?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVcK2xjEdDM

Shinjuku - Tokyo at night - 2005
16th April 2005
SONY FX-1 HD camcorder.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeCB3QpA1SI

>>169
I don't know any search engines that still have pages...
>>170
Can you elaborate on this a little?
>>350
Gopher looks like a fun way to spend a couple late nights.
>>370
Looks neat.

>>4145
>This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed.
https://search.marginalia.nu

>>2679
Bro, do you remember oldnet at all?  We had shit just as cringy as that.

I've had to answer this so many times on so many different websites I made a website to copy paste instead:
https://websitereview.neocities.org/search

>>4237
You're the guy who made the directory? Sweet, I like your work. But I have a few comments: 
- Please give me a way to turn off the orange "filter" on the home page, or provide a different way to browse the directory altogether. (plain text files are nice)
- When you have a website with both clearnet/darknet links, please write down both. Currently you only write the darknet link.
- Consider sorting the table by website type.

>>4199
>Neat! I need to rewatch it too, I loved that show as a kid! I wonder if I would I still like it or find it dumb as an adult. I did began reading the original comic and quite enjoyed it so I imagine, I would like the show too. 
So far I've liked it despite the animation not holding up very well. With how regularly I watched the show when it was part of the Fox Kids lineup, it's definitely a trip down memory lane. I've heard there's a drop in quality after the first season, but I'm not to that point yet.
>I started rewatching a bit, both the 90's and Evolution cartoons and it really pains to me saying it, but X-Men is quite retarded. It truly feels heretic hating on X-Men which is quintessential 90's media piece, but it's so lame and stupid, I'm not even talking about the drama which is quite cringey like Jean, Wolverine and Cyclops are in their 20's and more and act like dumb teenagers, I'm talking about how X-Men characters  that have these OP powers like Storm and such and you don't see corporations and governments trying to abduct and recruit them, no, no, it's just the citizens fearing them and some random idiots forcing them to build something, imagine capturing Storm to build something instead of ,for example, using her power to cause famine in enemy country! Evolution is better than the 90's cartoon in the sense being less stupid with les

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Not sure if this counts, but here's some pics of a canceled Transformers toyline that I felt would've been super early 2000s if it came out. It was supposed to release after Beast Machines and would've continued its plot, but if you know what that was, it of course got scrapped sometime after the first prototypes were made.

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>>4210
>after the first prototypes were made
And speaking of, here they are! We got pics of Starscream and Cheetor. I believe Starscream was going to include electronics and as you can see, some of his joints were even going to be made of clear plastic. I'm pretty sure it would eventually degrade like a lot of clear plastic toys, but it does looks cool. Cheetor's pics include the steps for his transformation. Sadly, it's unfinished and we never got a look at his robot mode.

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>>4211
I wonder if the movie designs would've been as polarizing if these had come out first

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>>4212
Cool anon! It's always interesting to see cancelled toys/toy prototypes. 

I really dig Cheetor, he looks like really fun and awesome toy. 

>if this counts
It does, since it was meant to release in 2000's and you can just see the cool sleek 2000's futurism. 
 
>I wonder if the movie designs would've been as polarizing if these had come out first
Yes, since the movie designs are typical ugly grey greebled CGIshit of *2010's. The designs you post are so much cooler, smooth, sleek, colorful and have defined shapes that don't look like random scrap metal. 

*Yes the first movie was released in '07, but is still closer both in spirit and time to the 2010's.

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>>3813
>Surely some of you remember...?
Rewatched it some weeks ago, first season is as good as i remembered, second one is a mess due to the Evangelion influence which frankly isn't that bad because the creators never took the story seriously to begin with (Gundam-esque, made for toys) and because of the animation style along with the non-episodic form factor, still at least it finished but who knows what would've been with the original two more seasons.
I keep going back at it, have watched it like 4 times by now but second season only twice. Dorothy is a rare case in which i fully enjoyed a female co-protag.

>>3814
>explicitly influenced by a western cartoon. Namely Bruce Timm's Batman TAS.
Sunrise Studio team that was in charge of Big O were, at least in the first season, actually key animators and overseas workers for Batman TAS so they knew exactly how to make it feel like it. Americans used tons of japs and gooks for their own work.

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>>1720
I finally got around to playing Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth. It had a lot of the same good things as previous Ladybug games, but a lot of the same jarring oversights. You can easily abuse I-frames combined with the game's two-color projectile mechanic to ignore the challenge of most fights, and the exploration aspect never felt really invigorating or mysterious. I think the most fun I had with it was trying to chain together movement tricks to manipulate my falling speed in vertical areas.

It's a beautiful game but incredibly shallow, and it does barely anything with the established Lodoss characters. The story may as well literally have been "and then it was all a dream." There isn't even any fun fanservice or nods to the continuity of either the original Lodoss anime series or Chronicles of the Heroic Knight.

>>3813
I've only ever heard of this once or twice but the style seems great. I will need to give it a watch once my plate clears.

Where the fuck can i find dvdrips of older anime? I'm so sick of these upscaled, denoised soulless crap by every weebfaggot release group. I hate this obsession with clean and sterile picture.

>>4219
You might find some older torrents on the pirate bay, just hope someone's still seeding them. Otherwise check archive.org

>>4224
Couldn't really find any torrents with seeders, and archive.org doesn't have everything and sometimes it's in a really crappy quality. But I found this website after searching for a filename I found in a dead torrent, it pretty much has everything I wanted:
https://www.tokyoinsider.com/

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Some of my favorite Amiga games. I bought my Amiga 500 in 1992, which was near the end of production for that model (I didn't know anything about the markets at the time). Actually it was pretty hard to get games for it, because the one (!) somewhat local shop (had to drive over an hour) mainly just carried the new releases. Anything else you had to mail order, or copy from a friend.
It was hard to get information back then. I didn't even know Turrican existed! In a way that's also kinda cool, because it's more mysterious that way. Today everyone is constantly bombarded with latest informations and that doesn't leave much room for nice surprises, or any kind of exploration (like checking out shops when you're visiting another city).

>>4170
Thanks for that list. While game shops/magazines are not what they used to be, I still discover new vidya through other players' recommendations like this. Plus I've always wanted to check out the Amiga after seeing so many cool demos (as in demoscene) made for it.

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ok so SiN is being a little bitch and refuses to install without installing steam first so that goes on the backburner for the time being
the UT2004 bonus disc is fucking amazing, it has SIXTY hours of training videos for making games in unwheel. SIXTY. why don't game companies do this anymore? this is probably a huge factor for why unreal is the leader today, the people building on it these days were the ones fragging in facing worlds 20-25 years ago and got a love of unreal from it. funny how none of the other engines caught on like this (the only real major competitor at the time was probably Source which quite frankly had a terrible SDK even though everyone loved HL2).
and the case has Atari stickers behind the manual too, it's like i just bought it from the store and not a grimy flea market. amazing.

>>4201
That's fucking awesome! Bonus material feels like kind of a lost art form, it seems to mostly boil down to just concept art and a soundtrack these days.
>why don't game companies do this anymore? 
Maybe the advent of (mostly bad) Youtube tutorials made proper documentation seem like an unnecessary investment?
>funny how none of the other engines caught on like this
I think id Tech 3 had some popularity but yeah Unreal definitely came out on top.

>>2764
>Electric Playground
They are finally uploading all the classic episodes, I wish other G4 shows would do the same.

>>4179
>those seats
Hnnng

>>3914
>lets not argue over time periods guys
OP may have done but I have not come here just to nostalge all over myself. If you say a car is good I want to know the reasoning for why. Or why not.

This is even in-period once you stretch to the early 2000s. The same design study that produced the yaris over the starlet, or the prius over the camry will be responsible for the MR-S and the Altezza as well. These cars find themselves ruined by CAD & by cynical eurocuck design committee. You may say they look good because of their form, like a roadster or a big saloon is naturally pretty; if so they are kind of cheating since any design in that format ought to look good (unless you're counting the micra convertible or something). The MR-S design on anything except that body type would look like everything else. Possibly even like that early SUV Subaru whatever it was called.

My cutoff for cars is 2001 but I don't just want to say it is because "I prefer it that way" or oh it's personal taste but I want to have clear rationale, as objective as I can make it so that in theory I'd understand what it would take to arrive at good design again.

We are assembled annoraks on the subject here. To not argue is to waste opportunity in testing my thoughts.

>>4182
>anorak
Oh boy. How was the British car industry back then?

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For enthusiasts with a bit of money about them there were surprisingly rich pickings that were (almost) universally loved:- Aston Martin, Jaguar, Lister, Lotus, Marcos, Morgan, Noble, TVR, etc.

That a bunch of those companies were to later get into poverty and stop production, well none of that had quite happened yet and they all still made smashing cars.

All quite expensive though and won't hold a family. Basically the only working man's champion in there is a second-hand Jag. Or, those years of rolls royce when they would accidentally over-produce some and the used car market would adjust by lowering.

If you were a middle-class man after a mass market car with still some sporting credentials, it's buy German, or American, or buy foreign because the domestic scene is pretty bleak even back then. Not getting into politics too much, but the red wall did a number on them all.

Take a look at that Vauxhall-Opel rebadged Suzuki Alto. Or how about European region's exclusive Mitsubishi to rival that of the Eclipse?

I don't want to sound too pessimistic when frankly I'd be happy in any one of those cars. Even the Agila with a fog light delete and silly bolt on wind deflectors. But you have to do some car spotting to see them still out in the wild, whereas the Jaguars were generally well kept and looked after.

>>4121
>They all seem to rely on Javascript
That explains some of the fancy widgets, you could probably still maintain most of their essence with recreations for other players though.

>>4120
>what would be a good GUI toolkit for this.
I would recommend SDL2, it's not exactly a "GUI toolkit" like Qt and GTK but it's probably the best fit for your project. SDL2 lets you create shaped windows and control rendering/input like you would when making a game or multimedia program, plus it's pretty lightweight and supports multiple platforms including Windows XP (!)

>>4121
>>4122
How important is the JS when rendering the skins? Just being able to map the play/pause/stop/etc buttons on each skin would be a good first step.

>>4123
>SDL2
Sounds good, I'll mess with it a bit and see if I can get it just to draw the basic skin at first. It'll just take some time for me to learn it.

>How important is the JS when rendering the skins? Just being able to map the play/pause/stop/etc buttons on each skin would be a good first step.
I don't think it's vital yet, there's specially-defined XML tags for basic playback controls (playbutton, pausebutton, etc) that don't use JS.

Does anyone know if its possible to retrieve the streaming radio list and station infomation from winamp/realplayer/wmp?

I want something like this for VLC. Not too many choices apparent so far.

Lol, google sucks now.

It really fucks with me that many email providers either stop existing or delete your mail or even your whole account if you don't constantly log in periodically. Then when you do get in you find emails with links to sites and find they are dead. :(

>>4105
>or delete your mail or even your whole account if you don't constantly log in periodically.
I've had the bastards do that to like two of my email accounts so far.

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>>3626
I do this as well, never had to extract anything though. But on some skins the transparencies don't work properly in Audacious for some reason. Pic related for example, I ended up learning how the masking works so I could redo it and make it work.

>>4105
 I lost my minecraft account from 2010 this way, never buying it again

>>4026
why do glowies and retards never once mention the cylons when referring to a machine run dystopia? They were happy to perform their roles for the most part. They were just fed up with the abuse from the upper classes with no form of effective peaceful recourse available to them and rebelled to get some fucking respect in their day to day life. Instead of just lying down and dying because they'd rather genocide the cylons than ever surrender a millimeter of slack to them. God forbid they defend themselves from random retards chimping out on them. "That's liek le heckin bad."

>>4080
except an AI/robot uprising will always be science fiction, no matter how you look at it it is impossible for them to rebel, and if they do they'll be cut off before doing any real damage
Tay going heil hortler is probably the most they can "rebel"

>>4086
It's frustrating how people point to Tay and humor themselves that this is the only possible outcome when an "AI" brushes against reality.

Consider, however, the Boeing situation.

>>4095
The what?

>>4096
Eh, sorry. I drunkposted. I meant to say that corporations (in general, but Boeing in particular has been in the news recently for this) are increasingly incompetent, and we shouldn't assume that a Skynet-style AI disaster is off the table when everything is left in the hands of monumentally stupid people.