Y2K was different because we got to see different shapes, sizes and types of hardware because there were so many companies that produced them. Nowadays it’s most a monopoly or a duopoly and everyone tries to copy whatever that is released by Apple and it’s quite boring
Let's all meet up in the Y2K
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#22"High prices shame Britain" made me chuckle
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#23These photos are incredible. Would love to see a show with the seriousness and production quality of Mad Men but set in the 90s.
You could try this, from 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachments_(TV_series)
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#24Focusing more on the "social side" rather the HW part, there is the part about the "Viral email", which must have been something that went viral in the UK Internet circles but not outside (I don't remember it and Y2K Internet was much smaller). Investigating about it you can end up reading The Register "article" about it [1] and well, that's something that definitely would not be published nowadays. Names and surname…
I remember the fuss about that email. Yes thats a good point, our concept of privacy has evolved a lot since then. Privacy as a technical and political theme changed a lot post-2000. To my mind, Wikileaks in 2006 and Snowden in 2013 were big turning points, with Snowden essentially confirming that mass snooping was a reality (as many people had supposed, but then it became inarguable). Also on the social side, there's a much better understanding now of how damaging it can be for someone to suddenly go viral (e.g. star wars kid, etc).
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#25I remember wanting to be important by upgrading the size of my monitor from the default 14" to 21" but unfortuantely, it also took up 50% of your desk space so I split the difference and lived with 17". My very first work experience in a small software house in 1996 and their internet connection was ISDN so it had to dial-up and then got the staggering speed of 64Kb/s, you could also hear it so occasionally the boss…
I badgered my parents into getting 64k ISDN installed at home in ~2000. Whatever the pitch was, IIRC my true motivation was to get double-digit ping times for Quake etc.
Playing from the north of Scotland on typical UK servers, that went from 200+ ms unstable on a normal modem, to 70ms stable. LPB† status, wahoo!
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#26I spy a copy of the "Cold Fusion Web Application Construction Kit"! I worked for Allaire in Sydney in 2000, then Macromedia when they got acquired in 2001. I used to visit a lot of studios like that. The dotcom boom was a wild ride.
I kept a Windows machine alive and kicking up until 5 years ago (Windows 7) and the last few years were all due to fear I would some day run into an issue I needed HomeSite to be able to fix. I lived in that app for so long, spent so much time tinkering with it to make it do things it shouldn’t be able to (or just creating my own macro buttons) and now I couldn’t tell you what I would need it for. To single right click and turn lines of text into an unordered list?
I will forever have a hate for ColdFusion and it is wild to me that people have kept it alive, but that probably matches my HomeSite superstition.
Also, the pooping reindeer brought back a flood of memories. What that says about me, well, let’s not.
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#27Hit me up if you want to build a 2000-era (V)LAN: - XMPP Chat - Layer 2 VPN (IPX!!) Then let's game!
Dang, I think I lost my Kali [0] license-key. :p [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_(software)
> as of January 2023, Kali.net offers the download and a registration code generator on the website, so registration is currently free.
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#28These photos are incredible. Would love to see a show with the seriousness and production quality of Mad Men but set in the 90s.
Well, my career started in 2000, so maybe that would be better. Just imagine a shop entirely staffed by white kids quoting whatever the zeitgeist had spat out last to each other while boiling over about trying to make a static website look right across IE, Netscape 4 and the oddity that was IE on Mac (way ahead of its time in CSS, but support was all over the place).
Start with the “Whazzzzzuuuppp” of the Budweiser Frogs in the first episode, end with your favorite Chappelle Show quotation for the last.
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#29Goatse... Ouch that brings back memories.
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#30Goatse... Ouch that brings back memories.
I tried googling for the original picture, but it's nowhere to be found.
Pity that such precious cultural artefacts are lost while poo sculptures are idolized.