Investigating corrupt Winamp skins
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Investigating corrupt Winamp skins
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#2Love it. I really wonder though how people ended up doing this?
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#3Was the internet better back then or am I just old?
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#4Was the internet better back then or am I just old?
It's still like that. There's a lot of weird things you're gonna find on the tail end of Github repositories, or Pastebin uploads, Imgur, or YouTube... it's just hard to find unless you crawl the whole thing or otherwise come into the possession of the underlying database (as this person did).
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#5Was the internet better back then or am I just old?
You were young and not working. The world was full of new frontiers and possibilities.
Young people today are on Minecraft, Roblox, VRchat, Discord, and YouTube. That's their frontier internet, and they probably feel the same way about it as you do.
A Geocities website, phpBB or EZBoard, webring, Xanga, and AIM/IRC has a similar analogues today. The pieces just have different names and shapes.
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#7Was the internet better back then or am I just old?
It was certainly more decentralized, less corporate, and a lot messier.
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#8Was the internet better back then or am I just old?
You were young and not working. The world was full of new frontiers and possibilities. Young people today are on Minecraft, Roblox, VRchat, Discord, and YouTube. That's their frontier internet, and they probably feel the same way about it as you do. A Geocities website, phpBB or EZBoard, webring, Xanga, and AIM/IRC has a similar analogues today. The pieces just have different names and shapes.
And different monetization strategies.
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#9What a fabulous find.
It's really neat to find something that I grew up with like Winamp skins become a subject of anthropological/historical study.
It's gonna be neat/kinda creepy to see how much of this sort of application of investigative techniques can turn up stuff from my younger years that I ever could have thought would still exist.
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#10Was the internet better back then or am I just old?
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