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No, but I loved the "Active Desktop" of Windows 98.

• asveikau 8y ago
  The very mention of Active Desktop makes me think of the sound of a 90s era hard drive working very hard because of so much swapping. The feature wasn't kind on the hardware of the day.
  • Anarch157a 8y ago
    I remember calls to the ISP I worked for, complaining that the computer would try to dial the modem every time the computer booted, so we had to teach the user how to disable that crap.
    • jacobush 8y ago
      I worked for an ISP - we used to set the customers start page to the ISP homepage. Then the CEO suggested we put an autoreload on the homepage, so the modem would reconnect or keep connection open, so more minutes would be racked up. My first exercise in saying no for ethical reasons. This seems so insignificant today... the second was turning down a job to handle outsourcing of medical records. I said, with the technology you are proposing, there's just no way we can secure those records. Fun to think of sometimes in today's break-things-and-move-fast-culture. (Late 90s, both occurrences.)