/retro/ - Y2K

>>5053
>i think it's worth the hassle to see a small pond of shitposting as long as a couple anons swim through it and post their efforts
I've felt ambivalently about this in recent years. Alt boards like this one and boards dedicated to productive stuff like /agdg/ can have a fair amount of signal in all the noise, but more general boards like /v/ have used up whatever good juice they had from 2015-2020.

/tg/ has managed to be the exception to all this, being a board of not-as-productive-as-they-used-to-be anons that just keep to themselves and talk about things they like. Even being attached to the tumorous mass of /a/ hasn't affected them beyond a couple of yaoifags shitting things up.

Oh, I've been using world2ch for a few months now. I have a few threads

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>>5058
Wha happen?

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fukuoka down

https://contemporary-home-computing.org/RUE/
>I’ve been making web pages since 1995, since 2000 I’m collecting old web pages, since 2004 I’m writing about native web culture (digital folklore) and the significance of personal home pages for the web’s growth, personal growth and development of HCI.
>So I remember very well the moment when Tim O’Reilly promoted the term Web 2.0 and announced that the time of Rich User Experience has begun. This buzzword was based on Rich Internet Applications, coined by Macromedia,1 that literally meant their Flash product. O’Reilly’s RUE philosophy was also rather technical: The richness of user experiences would arise from of use of AJAX, Asynchronous Javascript and XML.
>The web was supposed to become more dynamic, fast and “awesome,” because many processes that users would have to consciously trigger before, started to run in the background. You didn’t have to submit or click or even scroll anymore, new pages, search results and pictures would appear by themselves, fast and seamless. “Rich” meant “automagic” and … as if you would be using desktop software.
>As Tim O’Reilly states in September 2005 in blogpost What is Web 2.0?:2 “We are entering an unprecedented period of user interface innovat

Making a Neocities page looks fun. I really loved the internet when it was full of blogs, forums and personal sites. I sure miss it.

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>opherVR is an enhanced Internet Gopher client that includes a 3D visualization tool for viewing resource collections as 3D scenes. It explored how people outside of formal research laboratories could use spatial metaphors to access information.[1] The 3D view was intended to be similar to 3D games of the time, like Spectre.[2] The authors were interested in how this spatial representation could address the "lost in hyperspace" feeling that people using conventional Gopher clients sometimes experienced.
Most of the links are dead, but it would be interesting to see if you can make it work today.

>>5122
Forgot the link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GopherVR

AI generated web 1.0 wiki
https://grokipedia.com/

>>5089
mostly yes, its not really comparable to ray tracing, thats always going to be the slowest way to render
with cpus if you had to do something tedious like add 1 to 1000 32bit pixels then with mmx, which has 128bit registers, you can do 4 pixels at a time so its 4x faster than using 64bit registers, but with avx you have 256bit registers so you can 8 at a time, with avx512 you have 512bit registers so you can do 16x pixels at once, so obviously youd think more is better, since obviously if you can do more data then its faster but it gets complicated because a cpu is still a physical machine so passing electricity on gigantic 512bit registers is going to create way more heat than registers that are 1/4 its size, so while you can do more data you actually still slow the cpu down since it will thermal throttle and it does that preemptively because its guaranteed to go volcano mode when using those instructions, the instance you use a single 256bit or 512bit register the cpu immediately downclocks, i think the penalty is 20% 50% respectively but thats a small price to pay when you can process 8x-16x the amount of data, however if the programmer is stupid and only does a single avx instruction and isnt really using these for bulk data processing then you trigger the downclock penalty and effectively slowed the cpu down for nothing, and your normal instructions are running at 1/4 the speed now for a while, so nor

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taco bell has a y2k ad out
it's bad
like really fucking bad

>>5109
One of the nicer things about never intentionally watching ((( TV ))) is not having to see such goyslop.

>>5109
>>5110
I don't know how anyone can bear to watch TV or streaming services with ads anymore. I can't stand the commercials.

>>5116
Some people literally ignore them while playing some slop on their phones. I can't stand them either. Its also always the same stuff I am not interested on streaming services. Especially youtube.

>>5020
I guess they just book a big space and then people come in and set up tables and booths with displays.

Unfortunately, it's full of weirdos and unshowered people. They're not 100% of the attendees, but a significant portion. I guess in hindsight it's stupid to expect anything else, but somehow in my mind I expected Computer Chronicles sort of people and not smelly discord people.

Nevertheless, it was still fun. I got some magazines and a couple bits of hardware as well.

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>>801
Do you have a personal favorite tracker? I should have asked that before. I'm also curious to hear more about your thoughts on the early FL Studio versions and how they compare to the later ones. I first started using the program in the late 2000s, and FL Studio 11 is probably the version I feel most comfortable with.
>>4972
After mulling it over for a few months after I made this post, I ended up chickening out and buying a Hapax instead. After using it a little bit, I feel like it was absolutely the right decision. I'm still in the beginning stages of digging into it, but it's been really easy to learn so far. What scared me off about the Cirklon was not only the added cost, but the fact that it seemed like it would be a hassle for chord-based music and take a lot of willpower to learn. Maybe the Cirklon's aux events have more depth than what the Hapax can do, but the Hapax still makes it really easy to create evolving patterns. One of the first things I did when I got it was to create a simple line on one channel and copy it over to another channel with a slightly lower elasticity setting to create a phasing effect like in Steve Reich's music.

On the negative side, I think it's going to take some fiddling to get old MIDI files I created imported due to the pattern length limitations. I haven't been able to get USB MIDI to work and have had 

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One day it would be cool to be 100% analog. Or at best no digitech beyond the 80's, so an IBM running MS-DOS as a private BBS and usenet and IRC server would be okay. Kinda wondering if it'd be cool to get a satellite only GPS if I ever decide to go nature night walks or haunted urbex with an old camera that doesn't have any kind of wireless connection.

>>5111
Oh yeah, for nearly 15 years now I've had hooked up to my past three computers these 80's style boombox speakers that sound mighty fine to me especially when I crank the bass. I don't care to hear any fancy new audio than this, especially since I picked these up from goodwill for maybe $20. No $600 surround sound for me, especially if it's backdoored and needs "updates" to its touchscreen OS.

>>5112
You can have pretty much the same experience with a big, phat dumb stereo system. They are still being made. And they are still expensive as shit. Thank God for AKG clones.

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I was going through my Matt Furniss music collection and noticed that I can't seem to find this Atari ST track on YouTube anymore. Search engines are so crap that I can't find any more information on it, but for all I know it might be tagged wrong. Maybe it's irrelevant, but I thought I would upload it here in case anyone is interested.

>>5100
Thank you for your service, Anon. Yandex often works better for me than jewgle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iASMolEGr9k

>>4368
I'm the opposite: I haven't had a single desktop icon in years. I have no idea what my current wallpaper is. I never minimize anything, just switch between all of them fullscreen. I used to have a second monitor but it died after 11 years of service.

>>5100
Sadly I've been resorting more and more to DeepSeek for basic information. Traditional search engines are still fine for memes and wallpapers though, but nothing useful. Weeks ago I had to ask it "where are websites for the following businesses in [mycity]?"

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>>5037
>>5038
>>5043
CATCH THE WAVE

>>5070
Funny. I don't think they ever solved that did they?

>>5097
Hearty lulz

Nokia used to run ads with some serious cuties on them. Wish I could find those wallpapers again, stupidly didn't name them.

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i heard the around the world WUBWUBWUBWUB remix at the gym again today and now i'm mad

>>5012
I argue all remixes are terrible. I work with a guy that's too cheap to pay for a streaming service or buy albums but won't pirate, so he'll download remixes and covers as a loophole. I've heard enough butchered music to cement my opinion.

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>>4281
>>5012
>>5013
Never underestimate the power of a good remix. Ignore all the modern trash and listen to these.

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Do old internet remixes count?

>>4933
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Wormy, from The Dragon (what TSR's Dragon Magazine was originally named). But I was too young to read it from the beginning, I only found some back issues at local library. And the strip was already gone by the time I started buying the magazine in the late 80's. The author suddenly went MIA, and they replaced it with some very lame and boring comic strip featuring a chick with big tits (but that alone isn't enough to make a good comic). So I guess the new one was probably drawn by Larry Elmore, but I can't remember the name because it was so incredibly bland and boring.
Anyway now it's easy to find the entire Wormy saga in PDF. I guess they made it easy for us when they released (for sale) all the Dragon 1-250 issues on CDROM a long while ago...

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>>5103 (OP) 
I got hand-me-down comics from my older brother back in the '90s. I remember a few contemporary Superman issues. Archie too. There some black-and-white comics in what I believe would be considered digest form (I think there was an Archie one and ones with origin stories of Popeye and Superman) as well as some older comics I don't really recall. Those ones were old enough that they had those classic old-school ads. Pic related is one I always thought looked cool, but after seeing what the actual product looked like as an adult, I don't think I would have liked it as a kid. Speaking of ads, I had an Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade comic as a kid that had this Metal Gear advertisement that made me want to play the game. I was disappointed when I got around to trying it and it wasn't an action game like I was expecting. I think I mentioned that story in a different /retro/ thread. That ad is one of the main reasons I can remember that comic. Later on I remember even having one of those Kool-Aid Man comics. I'm not quite sure when that was. I'm positive there are more comics that I'm forgetting.

My mom had a pen pal who lived in England, and she was kind enough to send my family a bunch of British children's comics when I was like 10 years old. Like The Beano and that sort of thing. I really liked them. They felt like a breath of fresh air compared to the usual superhero comics. I rec

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Here are some gag comics I have just remembered.

>>5063
I hope this leads to other old home computers getting a renewed version. Like the Spectrum but especially like some of the rarer ones like the SAMCoupe or the Timex Sinclair.

>>5064
>I potentially want to see some older developers and composers getting some new work because of this
That would be great.

>>5069
The ends are just basic composite connections.

>>5092
just get an RCA-to-whatever adapter with an end that'll fit your speakers. Probably 3.5mm, but maybe yours are weird.

>>5063
I bought the Commodore 64x case for mitx. They're still offering it. I tried to shill (raise awareness) of it over the years. Sean who's one of the people involved with this even though Perifractic is the point man is a great guy.
>>5072
Maybe you should tell that to Leo on his forum for 'Commodore' OS.
>>5087
Spectrum was already brought back?

>>5093
Yeah, that's what I figured. I'm going to have to see what I can find.