Definitely a forgotten program. Another one from that era (that actually survived until Win 10 I just learned) is the "Briefcase". It was basically a primitive file syncing tool for multiple devices.
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What the Hell Was the Microsoft Network? (2018)
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Re: What the Hell Was the Microsoft Network? (2018)
#32MSN had an amazing Quake 2 and just general multiplayer games service for a while, I want to say it was called Games.com or something like that. The one day, poof it was gone.
zone.com? I would play Warcraft 2 multiplayer on there. Warcraft 2 had no natural Internet-based multiplayer, zone.com made it easy.
Zone was also where people played Heroes of Might & Magic III PvP, in early 00s, way before HoMM3 HD Lobby appeared.
Re: What the Hell Was the Microsoft Network? (2018)
#33I'm from the UK and in my forties, and I've never heard of 'Cix'. Just me?
I remember Cix, though I never had it. We had Demon giving me access to this incredible Internet thing, on the super fast 14.4kbps modem!
Re: What the Hell Was the Microsoft Network? (2018)
#34Definitely a forgotten program. Another one from that era (that actually survived until Win 10 I just learned) is the "Briefcase". It was basically a primitive file syncing tool for multiple devices.
The Briefcase was a godsend back when removable storage was used to move files between computers and there was no other way to keep things synced. It's a shame they removed it.
Re: What the Hell Was the Microsoft Network? (2018)
#35The article is unfair.
"After all, these new directions brought the PC almost up to the same spec that other computers had been enjoying ten years ago." - this is simply not true. Apple, main competitor of PC's, still had years and years ahead to gain preemptive multitasking. Windows NT and even 95 were significantly ahead of competition.
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#37CIX is still going in the UK. https://www.cix.uk/forums/accessing-forums
Just had a quick poke about and my last post was 22 year ago. Which was a bit of a gut-punch
Re: What the Hell Was the Microsoft Network? (2018)
#38The article is unfair. "After all, these new directions brought the PC almost up to the same spec that other computers had been enjoying ten years ago." - this is simply not true. Apple, main competitor of PC's, still had years and years ahead to gain preemptive multitasking. Windows NT and even 95 were significantly ahead of competition.
The article refers to Amiga, which came out in 1985 with a multi tasking OS (Workbench). That was a popular computer, at least in Europe. It was not as popular as IBM PCs, but it did show that it was possible at a reasonable price.
Re: What the Hell Was the Microsoft Network? (2018)
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
it was dead long before people started doing that there was a demo cd that had an offline example demo though (msn classic not 2.0)
What was dead ? Comic Chat still worked in xp last time I tried.
I remember using it on Windows 98 SE. It looked fun but it didn't take me a lot to figure out the thing was filled to the brim with crackers (it wasn't very secure) and creepy people posting weird custom cartoon porn. I've quickly noped the hell out of it.
Re: What the Hell Was the Microsoft Network? (2018)
#40Definitely a forgotten program. Another one from that era (that actually survived until Win 10 I just learned) is the "Briefcase". It was basically a primitive file syncing tool for multiple devices.
The Briefcase was a godsend back when removable storage was used to move files between computers and there was no other way to keep things synced. It's a shame they removed it.
You could always just build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem.
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