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"We used to make websites because it was fun and at a point we lost the way." Indeed.

by kbody 8y ago

gerdesj 8y ago
I might have done this: http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html to an entire business division for a while. Might have.
- peatmoss 8y ago
  https has ruined everything :-)
- reaperducer 8y ago
  There was an Apple ][ game that did something similar. I think it might have been King's Quest. In the era when people used hole punchers to make flippy disks, if you accidentally put the game disk in your machine upside down, the game displayed upside down. Today you can make any Mac's display turn upside down with a few clicks in System Preferences. Someone in my office may or may not make this happen on machines that haven't been properly logged out when someone goes on vacation. (A quick Command-Option-8 is also good for some fun.)
  - zaat 8y ago
    Who would have thought on putting the simple and prevailing combo Ctrl + Alt + Down Arrow as a default hotkey for this? And in a program you didn't even intentionally installed? Stupid Intel driver programmers, thanks for nothing, really. Still wondering if this came to life as an internal joke. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005491/graphics-drivers.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...
    - Noumenon72 8y ago
      I thought that at first, but it is very handy when I take my laptop between normal monitor and vertical monitor.
      - zaat 8y ago
        The problem is not that the feature exist, it's that is set as default with key combos that are the standard way for selecting text, one of the most common use cases of the computer keyboard, afaik.
        shakna 8y ago
        Ctrl alt for selecting text? I know of shift and command, emacs and vi don't require you hold down any key. What system uses ctrl+alt?
  - egypturnash 8y ago
    Karateka. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LVqSHLjiJCA https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LVqSHLjiJCA
antod 8y ago
I can't help feel that most of that fun was the relative novelty at the time. Without that novelty, it's not so fun any more. Although I miss Usenet more than GeoCities and webrings etc

"We used to make websites because it was fun and at a point we lost the way." Indeed.

by kbody 8y ago

"We used to make websites because it was fun and at a point we lost the way." Indeed.

I might have done this: http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html to an entire business division for a while. Might have.

peatmoss 8y ago
https has ruined everything :-)
reaperducer 8y ago
There was an Apple ][ game that did something similar. I think it might have been King's Quest. In the era when people used hole punchers to make flippy disks, if you accidentally put the game disk in your machine upside down, the game displayed upside down. Today you can make any Mac's display turn upside down with a few clicks in System Preferences. Someone in my office may or may not make this happen on machines that haven't been properly logged out when someone goes on vacation. (A quick Command-Option-8 is also good for some fun.)
- zaat 8y ago
  Who would have thought on putting the simple and prevailing combo Ctrl + Alt + Down Arrow as a default hotkey for this? And in a program you didn't even intentionally installed? Stupid Intel driver programmers, thanks for nothing, really. Still wondering if this came to life as an internal joke. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005491/graphics-drivers.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...
  - Noumenon72 8y ago
    I thought that at first, but it is very handy when I take my laptop between normal monitor and vertical monitor.
    - zaat 8y ago
      The problem is not that the feature exist, it's that is set as default with key combos that are the standard way for selecting text, one of the most common use cases of the computer keyboard, afaik.
      - shakna 8y ago
        Ctrl alt for selecting text? I know of shift and command, emacs and vi don't require you hold down any key. What system uses ctrl+alt?
- egypturnash 8y ago
  Karateka. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LVqSHLjiJCA https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LVqSHLjiJCA

antod 8y ago

I can't help feel that most of that fun was the relative novelty at the time. Without that novelty, it's not so fun any more. Although I miss Usenet more than GeoCities and webrings etc