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Post by nottorp »

bozdemir wrote: post #72
nottorp wrote: post #68

The top of the page starts great, but then it goes to grey on grey on the item descriptions for that low contrast Apple like feeling. Firefox/mac os, dark mode on. Edit: no, dark/light doesn't seem to matter. Edit 2: Time to go on a tangent. I opened the site experimentally on my oled phone and while the grey on grey is still too low contrast, it's significantly more readable than on either my desktop or laptop monit…

I was trying to capture the essence of the dead/grave concept, that's why I chose that type of pallet, I am really open to suggestios, what can I do better, what would you recommend? thnx for the taking the time, appreciate it so much.

Well I asked an "AI" and it pointed me to a bunch of accessibility guidelines including how to pick pairs of colours that are contrasting enough.

I'm no designer so that's where I'd start at :)

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Post by bozdemir »

cookiengineer wrote: post #49

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…

I will be adding the details soon, especially screenshots, thanks for the feedback. Since english is not my mother tongue, had to cheat a bit.

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Post by yaky »

Edd314159 wrote: post #55

Is there anything out there that is the opposite of this? Like a directory of old things that are, against all odds, still alive

Jabber / XMPP is still around and is pretty good for self-hosting a messenger.

Email, now with multiple validations and verifications.

Gopher protocol has a niche community (probably overlapping with newer Gemini).

Doom, still played and modded, and now a semi-meme benchmark for low-spec hardware.

Countless *nix tools that originated decades ago and evolved.

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Post by mghackerlady »

ElCapitanMarkla wrote: post #32

I'm not sure I the Tamagotchi deserves a place on here. Did anything really kill it? It was kind of just a fad in the late 90s and its still around, not as popular as its fad stages but still reasonably popular. We just got back from Japan last week, there is a newly opened "Tamagotchi Factory" shop which was packed. The kids each picked up one of the latest versions and have been playing with them every day.

I can attest to them still existing, I collect them :) they're far more popular in Japan but in the states they limp along on nostalgia with re-issues of the older models and the occasional localisation of japanese ones

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Post by evandrofisico »

yreg wrote: post #62
Edd314159 wrote: post #55

Is there anything out there that is the opposite of this? Like a directory of old things that are, against all odds, still alive

ytmnd, hackernews. Regarding software, perhaps vlc?

I would suggest slackware as a long lived software project too

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Post by mghackerlady »

There's revivals of a few of the services here. Off the top of my head, myspace has spacehey which is moderately popular. AIM and MSN messengers have revivals out there but I forget the details. Neocities certainly isn't geocities but it has a similar vibe and name. They mention winamps resurrections, and at least in the unix world we have a few players compatible with the skins (which lets be honest here, why else would you want to use winamp today). Pebble came back recently. Dial up exists as well, but is mostly relegated to the extremely rural and will probably die out when satelite internet like starlink gets more popular. And of course, homepages never died for anyone moderately interested in computers

Minidisk is technically dead, but it still occasionally gets new releases, particularly from the vaporwave/y2k scene and needlejuice (they have Lemon Demon and the Friday night Funkin' soundtrack)

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Post by cestith »

brk wrote: post #77

Cuecat? Though I'm not sure if that ever really got big enough to warrant a spot, but it was a thing for a hot minute. HomeRF - The wifi contender that was supposed to unify wireless networks across multiple device types. Tivo - technically still around, but pretty much a zombie version of their former selves. (Maybe make an "I'm not dead yet!" section). Gateway 2000 PCs -Their support line had a DJ, and they were ev…

Slashdot is still online and updating. Some of us still use optical drives from time to time (especially those of us with an existing stock of M-Disc media for long-term archiving).

Gateway was purchased by Acer, so it’s not like they just disappeared. Not any more than DEC, SBC, or Studebaker anyway. They were just absorbed.

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