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There are so many wild and wonderful things that came out of 90s Microsoft. One favourite of mine is Microsoft Music Producer, I think it was called. You could select genres, styles, tempo and a band then it would 'compose' mid files. I used them to generate royalty-free music for silly animations. Sadly even any mention of this is very hard to find online now. I recall there being an old website where one could down…
We were still using this for classified chat in the Navy like 5 years ago. We didn't use the comic feature, just the normal IRC client. Eventually we followed other services and went to mIRC before the .gov paid some software company a ridiculous amount of money to make a very simple Java-based IRC client called Mako. It was like a software project you would do in an intermediate Java class, no bells and whistles. Ri…
Hmm. And now I'm wondering if the simplicity you describe was just skin deep... or if Mako performed TLS cert validation et al :D
There are so many wild and wonderful things that came out of 90s Microsoft. One favourite of mine is Microsoft Music Producer, I think it was called. You could select genres, styles, tempo and a band then it would 'compose' mid files. I used them to generate royalty-free music for silly animations. Sadly even any mention of this is very hard to find online now. I recall there being an old website where one could down…
Somehow all this events combined made all the internet kids in my neighbourhood get the same court letter with a huge internet bill one year later.
Jim Woodring was such an odd, but wonderful, choice of artist for this project. I thought his surreal style worked so well as a visualization of what at the time was newly called “cyberspace”. This could have been a totally flavorless corporate thing instead.
You put it perfectly! I strongly agree and came here to say what you and ncmncm said first. He's one of my favorite and most surrealistic comic artists! His web site is currently broken but it usually works, and has lots of awesome stuff on it. I've let him know, so I hope it will be back soon. http://jimwoodring.com/ (EDIT: http://www.jimwoodring.com/ ) But in the meantime: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Woodring…
There are so many wild and wonderful things that came out of 90s Microsoft. One favourite of mine is Microsoft Music Producer, I think it was called. You could select genres, styles, tempo and a band then it would 'compose' mid files. I used them to generate royalty-free music for silly animations. Sadly even any mention of this is very hard to find online now. I recall there being an old website where one could down…
There are so many wild and wonderful things that came out of 90s Microsoft. One favourite of mine is Microsoft Music Producer, I think it was called. You could select genres, styles, tempo and a band then it would 'compose' mid files. I used them to generate royalty-free music for silly animations. Sadly even any mention of this is very hard to find online now. I recall there being an old website where one could down…
And Microsoft 3D Movie Maker! I spent so much time making "movies" with that thing!
If you'd like to play around with it you can still find downloads by Goolging "mschat25.exe" Here is a proxy script that will allow you to connect to a modern IRC server: https://gist.github.com/richardg867/bb19ca2b03545f71ae15 Edit: another fun read was the methods for getting third party IRC clients to connect to MSN's IRC servers directly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSN_Chat
https://ipfs.eternum.io/ipfs/QmPhBJ9Dg91wH9NUiF4dKVewazL6g6c...
We were still using this for classified chat in the Navy like 5 years ago. We didn't use the comic feature, just the normal IRC client. Eventually we followed other services and went to mIRC before the .gov paid some software company a ridiculous amount of money to make a very simple Java-based IRC client called Mako. It was like a software project you would do in an intermediate Java class, no bells and whistles. Ri…