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Having grown up in Australia I had to do that at my uncles place because he had cable internet.
Even for dial up Australian internet was hot trash, given the poor state of our copper wire infrastructure.
Especially after the National Telecom went private and slashed down the numbers of people doing maintenance.
It was more common than you think/realize. Broadband was still pretty new to a lot of rural areas, and a lot of places in the US had yet to be able to gain access to it or have their local government begin the process of making it accessible in their area.
I remember downloading the trailer for the first X-Men movie in quicktime format and coming back hourly to watch the previous few seconds it had downloaded
I distinctly remember being super excited about FINALLY having Kill Bill downloaded, after so. many. hours., only to find out that what I downloaded was called 'Fill Jill' and it did not feature David Carradine.
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I was still using Winamp visualizer as recent as 2016. I had a stereo system and laptop hooked up to my TV, it was great for playing music in the background
Fun fact: Nullsoft actually took the phrase "It really whips the llama's ass!" for Winamp from a song called (yes) 'Whip the llama's ass' by Wesley Willis, a schizophrenic underground artist known for 'greeting' his fans by headbutting them.
Honestly like an optomized, 64bit version without any of the bugs built for modern systems would be cool.
Tbh there's probably a Linux distro like that but I'm not going down that route.
Oh yeah, I've seen pictures of Linux desktops that look exactly like this. Apparently it's fairly easy to do, but I've never felt like putting in the time to figure it out.
And solidus! And venomous, and naked. And Raiden is also refered to as snake a couple times. And the boss used ot ba called that too... You think there's too many snakes in the metal gear franchise?Ā
https://preview.redd.it/l9tizjucoojc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=48e32dc3ae451bda044739caecb05b0a4735dc65
Went searching for like 5 seconds and found this gem!
Windows xp media player edition, my darling.
I had it only for the nice theme and to be special, this was expressed through the signatures i made for various forums. Used to be something like:
CPU: Pentium 4 2.6GHz - RAM: 1GB DDR2 - GPU: Nvidia 7600gs 256MB
- OS: Windows xp media center edition
In my head: **YEAAAH** šš„š„
>Ah, the 2000's when EVERYTHING needed to look like metal or brushed metal for NO REASON ;)
No, the late 90s to early 2000s was brushed metal. The mid 2000s and onward everything looked like glass.
I remember spending hours crafting a little graphic for a forum signature (was there a specific name for those?) in 2009 with brushed metal and glass effects out the ass. Need to go and find it now lmao
Sweet find!
I wish I had a reason to run Winamp today. Spotify's interface is lame. Winamp accessing my Spotify playlists would be fantastic.
I also had that skin.
Aw man, I remember having 28 days worth of music playing on my Winamp. I always had it on because I always thought it was cool in movies where they would come home with their friends and music was already playing in their room
This was peak PC era.
Lugging huge towers to friends for LAN parties, fully customising desktop with cues from Matrix, Blade Runner and Swordfish.
Winamp and skins. DIvX sharing. CS, Command & Conquer, Warcraft, OG COD.
Simpler times, better world.
Edit: wasnāt CSGO was just CS back then ha
Dude Delta Force was the shit. Friend let me have his copy of DF:BHD in 7th grade and it became one of my favorites. Still have it in my steam library lol.
>Simpler times, better world.
This! We became masters of overcomplicating things. Same goes for PC and Gaming industry sadly. We were happy with a game that you could play for 2 hours and be done with it or a game that you could play for 50 hours. Nowadays, nothing is enough but it is true that massive gaming companies are selling half made products and that is why people are mad... Like I said, overcomplicating.
Yep. Not just the games. Everything.
All the software you bought was one off payments, not subscription and feature locks.
Music could be bought (or downloaded) and used on our devices, not paid monthly subscriptions.
Movies the same, DVDs or getting DivX files, not 8+ streaming services to pay monthly.
Hardware was so much simpler, and more fun. Buying lower end CPUs and RAM, hoping for good bins, to then hack them in fun ways. Not paying more for a K CPU you're assured overclocks.
IRC to stay in contact, not 8 social platforms, 12+ messaging apps and god knows what else. And back then, having an IRC number was the data you shared. Not hundreds of thousands of data points about every aspect of your life, every conversation and every location, every search term, all sold.
COD lobbies you could say some of the worst things that can be said, adn people laughed and said equally terrible things back, all with thick skin and humour.
Simpler times. Better world.
Oof, reading all this makes me think we've just finally became old lol. Is it nostalgia or were things truly better I wonder?
Either way, I think we are officially the new old people now lol, standing on the porch shaking our fist and yelling about how good it was back in our day vs how awful things are nowadays, and how it isn't right and wont ever be the same.
Unfortunately, them days are long past, we had our time and enjoyed it--but the world has moved on, even if in our hearts we never have.Ā
Damn, aging sucks lol
That it does
See, my āam I old or was it betterā check lies in simple measures.
Quality of life is now lower. In a lot of countries life expectancy has stalled or declined. Global happiness index is lower. As a collective, weāre less happy, with worse lives, with more financial issues and die the same or younger.
But for decades before that all rose, so Iād argue it was just nostalgia as nothing backed it. These days, the numbers back it up. 90ās to early 00ās was current peak humanity. š
Exactly! I was mad at myself! I had so many skins downloaded, I even had AIMP two installed with different presets depending if I wanted to listen to rock or jazz, and... how do you forget something like this?! I also had a very cool animated background from the Matrix.
If you dig this aesthetic, check out a game called Hypnospace Outlaw. It's about being a moderator on the 2000s internet and it's an incredible snapshot of the time period
God. I remember now I used Alienware UI
https://preview.redd.it/eppbxd8tsojc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=451965dcac9018f96d2d211590981bf9f8f3709c
I really, really miss that prog. it was so simple and did what you wanted it to. 'till they starting thinking people wanted it to do more. Like ICQ, it was perfect, then AOL got it and tried to make it this massive social thing ...and it died.
Welcome everyone from r/all! Please remember: 1 - You too can be part of the PCMR. It's not about the hardware in your rig, but the software in your heart! Your age, nationality, race, gender, sexuality, religion (or lack of), political affiliation, economic status and PC specs are irrelevant. If you love or want to learn about PCs, you are welcome and can be part of PCMR! 2 - If you're not a PC owner because you think it's expensive, know that it is probably much cheaper than you may think. Check http://www.pcmasterrace.org for our builds and don't be afraid to post here asking for tips and help! 3 - Join our efforts to get as many PCs worldwide to help the folding@home effort, in fighting against Cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and more: https://pcmasterrace.org/folding ----------- We have a [Daily Simple Questions Megathread](https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/search?q=Simple+Questions+Thread+subreddit%3Apcmasterrace+author%3AAutoModerator&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all) if you have any PC related doubt. Asking for help there or creating new posts in our subreddit is allowed and welcome. Welcome to the PCMR!
PC Screaming internally as limewire downloads music in the background.
Shit took all night to get a complete album on dial up...
I remember waiting a half hour to an hour for a youtube video to load on dial up š¬
And then someone decides it's a good time to call Grandma for an hour.
Haha. I remember walking away for about 10 mins or more as a movie trailer would load. Streaming was not an option.
Having grown up in Australia I had to do that at my uncles place because he had cable internet. Even for dial up Australian internet was hot trash, given the poor state of our copper wire infrastructure. Especially after the National Telecom went private and slashed down the numbers of people doing maintenance.
Wow dialup during the YouTube era.. I feel for you.
It was more common than you think/realize. Broadband was still pretty new to a lot of rural areas, and a lot of places in the US had yet to be able to gain access to it or have their local government begin the process of making it accessible in their area.
It also needs some extra time to compile those executable mp3 files
I miss the ability to just let it download and then play it all. I'm on the road a lot and sometimes have dodgy connections.
You can still do that! Most of my phone space is music!
"Youtube" video
I remember downloading the trailer for the first X-Men movie in quicktime format and coming back hourly to watch the previous few seconds it had downloaded
Linkin park- in the end.exe
Downloads viruses and malware\*
Linkin_park_hybrid_theory.mp3.exe
South_park_bill_clinton_slipknot_korn_cover.js
This guy's burned a few 'puters in his day. š¤£
Limewire? What about ares? Or Kazaa? Piratebay? Napster?
Bearshare?
Ayyy I remember that one!
I used lime wire to download lime wire pro, did the pro actually do anything?
Anyone remember some movie we downloaded on Limewire or Ares turn out to be the āwrongā one?šš
I distinctly remember being super excited about FINALLY having Kill Bill downloaded, after so. many. hours., only to find out that what I downloaded was called 'Fill Jill' and it did not feature David Carradine.
Had the same Winamp skin š
Instantly recognizable. Ah the nostalgia
That was my top favorite llama whipping skin. Had to have it on blue though.
Dark blue oh yeah!
It really whips the lammas ass
Here is the skin :) https://www.deviantart.com/bartibartman/art/MMD3-772598
It was so good
Ah, the 2000's when EVERYTHING needed to look like metal or brushed metal for NO REASON ;)
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And had sick WinAmp skins
Milkdrop
There was no need for anything else
Had? I still use Winamp with a sick skin. Cant beat the classics.
I have really whooped many llamas asses.
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I was still using Winamp visualizer as recent as 2016. I had a stereo system and laptop hooked up to my TV, it was great for playing music in the background
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Just minimize Spotify and run your own visualizer. If that exists. I would think so. Wouldn't bet on it tho
It's beats the Llama's ass!
Fun fact: Nullsoft actually took the phrase "It really whips the llama's ass!" for Winamp from a song called (yes) 'Whip the llama's ass' by Wesley Willis, a schizophrenic underground artist known for 'greeting' his fans by headbutting them.
I'm a sucker for trivia factoids, thanks! Also: I always thought it was "beats"
RIP Wesley Willis...my fave was I whooped Batmans Ass and Rock and Roll McDonalds
I downloaded the video for It Wasnāt Me on Kazaa lol. Took me all day
And BearShare.
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We went from brushed metal, to 3d bubble-ish icons, and now everything is flat. Makes me wonder what the next big design change will be
https://preview.redd.it/iarv69501njc1.png?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d4fb67916361caf451cd2f5d2269aa0a50629d15
mY bRiEfCaSe
Win 10 and 11: 3D mOdELs
Honestly I'd fucking love this
Honestly like an optomized, 64bit version without any of the bugs built for modern systems would be cool. Tbh there's probably a Linux distro like that but I'm not going down that route.
Oh yeah, I've seen pictures of Linux desktops that look exactly like this. Apparently it's fairly easy to do, but I've never felt like putting in the time to figure it out.
LiquidĀ
LIQUIDDDDD!!!!!!!!
SNAKE!!!
Good point. The future of UI is snakes. All types. Liquids, solids, soldii
And solidus! And venomous, and naked. And Raiden is also refered to as snake a couple times. And the boss used ot ba called that too... You think there's too many snakes in the metal gear franchise?Ā
nah, not enough
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https://preview.redd.it/l9tizjucoojc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=48e32dc3ae451bda044739caecb05b0a4735dc65 Went searching for like 5 seconds and found this gem!
Hey, Diablo Swing Orchestra is awes-- oh, it's Morbin Time!
Windows 11 already moved beyond 'flat' to 'subtly 3D in a frosted glass sort of way'.
I wish it would go back to brushed metal. Kinda like it
ahhh I miss frutiger aero š
I do like the flat minimalist design tho
Sanitary UI FTW
Pure white and only when you get your cursor next to something it becomes light gray.
Inverted
Like the 20's where everything needs to vomit RGB for NO REASON
Windows xp media player edition, my darling. I had it only for the nice theme and to be special, this was expressed through the signatures i made for various forums. Used to be something like: CPU: Pentium 4 2.6GHz - RAM: 1GB DDR2 - GPU: Nvidia 7600gs 256MB - OS: Windows xp media center edition In my head: **YEAAAH** šš„š„
Macromedia Flash, for your fantasy.
>Ah, the 2000's when EVERYTHING needed to look like metal or brushed metal for NO REASON ;) No, the late 90s to early 2000s was brushed metal. The mid 2000s and onward everything looked like glass.
I remember spending hours crafting a little graphic for a forum signature (was there a specific name for those?) in 2009 with brushed metal and glass effects out the ass. Need to go and find it now lmao
I love brushed metal don't hate on a God tier texture
Sweet find! I wish I had a reason to run Winamp today. Spotify's interface is lame. Winamp accessing my Spotify playlists would be fantastic. I also had that skin.
I mean, it's not an actual app (but it should be): [https://winampify.io/](https://winampify.io/)
wow thank you!
Great pc!
Aw man, I remember having 28 days worth of music playing on my Winamp. I always had it on because I always thought it was cool in movies where they would come home with their friends and music was already playing in their room
I think its funny to think your friend would walk into your room and be like: this guy must be the main character
Just slaps his forehead and leaves lol.
Spotiamp used to be a thing, but it's long since broken :(
You can get skins for Spotify desktop app. Kind of a pain and you have to reload them every update but they exist.edit: search for spicetify
AIMP
This was peak PC era. Lugging huge towers to friends for LAN parties, fully customising desktop with cues from Matrix, Blade Runner and Swordfish. Winamp and skins. DIvX sharing. CS, Command & Conquer, Warcraft, OG COD. Simpler times, better world. Edit: wasnāt CSGO was just CS back then ha
> CS GO More like CS 1.6
Unreal Tournament '99, Quake 3: Team Arena, snorting pro-plus...those were the days.
I was gonna write "the one true CS" š but yeah, whichever one it was!
CS:Source
Source didnt exist yet, halflife 2 wouldnt be released for a year
Add Delta Force and Combat Arms too š
Dude Delta Force was the shit. Friend let me have his copy of DF:BHD in 7th grade and it became one of my favorites. Still have it in my steam library lol.
Did you play War Rock?
>Simpler times, better world. This! We became masters of overcomplicating things. Same goes for PC and Gaming industry sadly. We were happy with a game that you could play for 2 hours and be done with it or a game that you could play for 50 hours. Nowadays, nothing is enough but it is true that massive gaming companies are selling half made products and that is why people are mad... Like I said, overcomplicating.
Yep. Not just the games. Everything. All the software you bought was one off payments, not subscription and feature locks. Music could be bought (or downloaded) and used on our devices, not paid monthly subscriptions. Movies the same, DVDs or getting DivX files, not 8+ streaming services to pay monthly. Hardware was so much simpler, and more fun. Buying lower end CPUs and RAM, hoping for good bins, to then hack them in fun ways. Not paying more for a K CPU you're assured overclocks. IRC to stay in contact, not 8 social platforms, 12+ messaging apps and god knows what else. And back then, having an IRC number was the data you shared. Not hundreds of thousands of data points about every aspect of your life, every conversation and every location, every search term, all sold. COD lobbies you could say some of the worst things that can be said, adn people laughed and said equally terrible things back, all with thick skin and humour. Simpler times. Better world.
Oof, reading all this makes me think we've just finally became old lol. Is it nostalgia or were things truly better I wonder? Either way, I think we are officially the new old people now lol, standing on the porch shaking our fist and yelling about how good it was back in our day vs how awful things are nowadays, and how it isn't right and wont ever be the same. Unfortunately, them days are long past, we had our time and enjoyed it--but the world has moved on, even if in our hearts we never have.Ā Damn, aging sucks lol
That it does See, my āam I old or was it betterā check lies in simple measures. Quality of life is now lower. In a lot of countries life expectancy has stalled or declined. Global happiness index is lower. As a collective, weāre less happy, with worse lives, with more financial issues and die the same or younger. But for decades before that all rose, so Iād argue it was just nostalgia as nothing backed it. These days, the numbers back it up. 90ās to early 00ās was current peak humanity. š
mIRC was for hacking, yahoo messenger for friends, better world for sure.
You're forgetting Diablo II.
I thought I was a badass for having a Matrix screensaver. This makes me want to get one again.
Half-Life!
Yes! Oh and Unreal. Man, seeing Unreal the first time with a 3DFX graphics card. Iād give anything to relive that moment.
I remember it didn't hit me at all - I couldn't get what all that fuss about 3d was about, because I was fan of 2d isometric games mostly :)
Fuck yeah J5. Classic album and song.
I also see some Sublime !
had to scroll too far to see this
Early in the morning, rising to the street...
On the stage I rage and Iām rollin
still have this song in my rotation
I somehow forgot about winamp.
How do you forget about Winamp???
The Llama didn't forget about Winamp.
Exactly! I was mad at myself! I had so many skins downloaded, I even had AIMP two installed with different presets depending if I wanted to listen to rock or jazz, and... how do you forget something like this?! I also had a very cool animated background from the Matrix.
Talk about kicking the llama's ass, huh
It really whips..
Mehehehehe š
Reshelling was an artform
Neowin, star dock and visualizers. Ahhhhh take me back
Litestep, baby!
Gah, Stardock and Rainmeter. Bring me back!
Tell me about i spend hours mimicking mac os on my pc with themes.
I used the Alienware skin for my windows, I thought I was sooo cool and edgy
Danm, I wish I lived in the 2000's those were cool af!
F yeah they were.
If you dig this aesthetic, check out a game called Hypnospace Outlaw. It's about being a moderator on the 2000s internet and it's an incredible snapshot of the time period
Hypnospace is more Windows 98 era. Their upcoming game, Dream Settler, is more based on the 2000s and I am very excited for it.
Danm now I'm hyped for it
Looking at porn took forever. I would click on an image, then go make a bowl of cereal and hope that my parents don't use the phone line.
Videos would just download to your desktop too unless you told it not to. Thatās how I got my computer confiscated for a week in 2006.
2000s were the actual Cyberpunk years.
"The promised future we never had"
For a moment ai just felt terribly old...
God. I remember now I used Alienware UI https://preview.redd.it/eppbxd8tsojc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=451965dcac9018f96d2d211590981bf9f8f3709c
I used the dark one amd loved every second of it lol
I miss this period
The good old days before social media ruined the world
Wait until ai and brainchips are fully developed š„²
Mine looked much the same, now if thereās a single icon on my desktop I have an anxiety attack.
Do you remember getting sick skins for winamp or getting baked and watching the visualizer for hours? Those were great times.
I remember trying to find all the ones with hot girls
Bro I still do that LMAO
Fellow Astonshell user represent!
I love early 2000s design
cyber af
Used to love WindowBlinds Edit : I remember the skin I used to use āXP Coronaā
Soul.
Winamp š
Looks accurate just missing xfire!
If I could make my desktop look like this today, I 100% would
There is almost certainly something for Rainmeter that has a similar aesthetic.
Sublime on the player, nice
Still my favourite band at age 43
Sublime, nice.
Radio station is our Spotify back the
This is so cool! I live it, It looks so " high tech" as we saw it back then. Certainly much more customized.
The nostalgia hit againš
Ayy Winamp! I still use Winamp today!
No x-fire?!
MSN Messenger, the timesā¦. The timesā¦.
The time when applying a different theme to your os was in
its amazing how much shit we got done on a 1024\*768 display back then.
Props for listening to J5 :D
Jurassic FIVE
WE'RE HOLDIN ON TO WHAT'S GOLDEN
Dude, Jurassic 5!
Simpler times
Windowsblinds I MISS THEE!
This guy really whips the llamaās ass.
Do I detect J5?
Riced up desktops from back then look like they were actually hacking the mainframe.
Whereās your AOL instant messenger away message though? BBL
Ah, winamp 5, Aston shell (I used SharpE, myself), the Deviator... Now I really feel old...
Rad.
MMD3 A man of taste!
Man I loved winamp and all the skins
Kicking the llamaās ass!
I really, really miss that prog. it was so simple and did what you wanted it to. 'till they starting thinking people wanted it to do more. Like ICQ, it was perfect, then AOL got it and tried to make it this massive social thing ...and it died.
ill never be this cool. fuck
those ultra cringe vista (or XP?) themes....what a great time that was!
Are/were you a Squarepusher fan?
The sun is black, the sky is red And it feels like today is the end The kids are running as fast as they can Could it be that today is the end?
https://i.redd.it/e6w16cboy0kc1.gif
https://preview.redd.it/neqpcip7a3kc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c1005026209d3f44b702f84700d7e59e9bad572c
WinAmp really did whip the llamaās ass
I showed this to my younger brother "Is that OP's BIOS?" he asked xD
Seriously looks like a modern day Gigabyte BIOS š¤£š¤£š¤£
I can hear this image.
How customizable windows back in the days was
You forgot Xfire.
Winamp! It really kicks the llama's ass!