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Re: Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things

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post #95

Pretty much every text is slop-generated. I like the idea, not what OP has done with it. Talking about ICQ with zero screenshots is like talking about Hamachi without talking about LAN parties and how games were played at the time. Pretty much all articles are just slop-text. Not even talking about alternatives or what has been done in the meantime. For example, ICQ led to AIM and Trillian, which led to pidgin/libpur…

AIM->GAIM from the libre community, then Pidgin/Libpurple, with NAIM, CenterIM, TMSNC and OFC AMSN. This is what happens when people which didn't live the era try to write an article with LLM slop. I remember loving Freetalk against Mcabber and now Profanity because it could autocomplete anything you entered, not just nicknames.

On our LAN parties at the time, everyone started to use Trillian because of their support for the Bonjour protocol which used multicast DNS locally. That way you could easily "group teams" together, because the hostnames / IPs were also visible and you could add them then to the Hamachi groups where the games happened.

Hamachi was an amazing tool before they got bought, it made networking so easy for everyone; and you didn't even need to know what an IP was.

Re: Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things

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post #99

Palm Pilot is mentioned, but not Amiga Computers? For me it defined an era. Warez, games, hacking in assembly and Aztec C compiler. Too bad I migrated to MS DOS (yet Turbo Pascal was great), as Macs were unaffordable in Germany. Edit: A good list anyway. AOL dial tone and AOL CDs. Lol. Spent countless hours chatting to strangers on aol.

will be adding them soon. ty for the feedback.

Re: Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things

#127
My glory days were at age 14 when the era of AOL discs was at it's peak. That being said most internet nostalgia I encounter online makes my eyes roll or even cringe inside. This, however, I had a genuine blast reading, thank you! I loved the craigslist entry the most. P.S. I still use winamp religiously. (edit) P.P.S. Please, please make an entry for Optical Media. I am so glad that era is over!
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