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Back then, I was quite young. Around 2002. We were like 5 boys getting into overclocking. For our SETI team, the "Bücki crunching connection", from my small ho
by jgehrcke 7y ago
Back then, I was quite young. Around 2002.
We were like 5 boys getting into overclocking. For our SETI team, the "Bücki crunching connection", from my small hometown in Germany.
I just tried to find an old screenshot from back in the day, and wow I found one, from 2002:
https://imgur.com/a/L5Q5PMR https://imgur.com/a/L5Q5PMR
So funny, it is all there: ICQ, mIRC; an icon to launch Quake III. And some SETI crunching stats. In Internet Explorer.
Seemingly we were actually crunching under one account for the team OC-CARD.de (http://www.setiatwork.com/team/teamstats.cgi?teamid=30308 http://www.setiatwork.com/team/teamstats.cgi?teamid=30308)
You might have done the same, but I am still sharing this because this has influenced me a lot:
I bought an AMD Duron, some arctic silver heat paste. I took a lead pencil to connect some dots on the CPU to unlock the multiplier freely, got a freaking heat sink, and overclocked the hell out of the Duron. I needed to hide this from my parents, but of course the plan was to crunch 24/7.
I found another screenshot, the file is called "duri@fsb133.jpg". Looks like I knew what I was doing:
https://imgur.com/a/eG9nmdO https://imgur.com/a/eG9nmdO
Edit: looks like our team (OC-CARD.de) was actually among the top 200 of all SETI teams. Wow, yeah there were some serious people in the team, like "Butcho", ranking in the top 1000 of individuals. No idea who that guy was and where he got the compute resources from. That's the romantic part of that Internet era.
Edit2: turned this into a very quick blog post to properly archive my own memory here: https://gehrcke.de/2020/03/setihome-hibernation/ https://gehrcke.de/2020/03/setihome-hibernation/
- pmarreck 7y agoI was a new web developer in that era and the bad taste in my mouth left by that era's Internet Exploiter is still strong. LOL. ugh.
- jtms 7y agoYounger developers truly don’t understand the pain and suffering IE inflicted
- necovek 7y agoWell, hover link styling and dynamic HTML in IE3/4 did push the web forward a bit. Not necessarily for the better, but it was influential, and defined some of the things that became standard. But that was probably a bit earlier, since I was off Windows by '98 or '99.
- nr2x 7y ago“This site best viewed in Chrome”.
- simonh 7y ago"This application is optimised for Chrome, but the default browser is Edge. Please cut and paste the following link into Chrome." Literally read this today.
- mcv 7y agoThat's also the case at my workplace. On some machines, IE11 was still the default browser, despite it not being supported.
- FranklinYu 7y agoDo you work for banks or something?
- patrickaljord 7y agoChrome is open source and available on all OS. Try running IE with flash and activex on linux in 1999. People today don't know how easy they have it :) (not saying you in particular).
- bergheim 7y agoThat's not really true; chromium is open source. Chrome, while based on chromium, is not.
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- jsjohnst 7y agoJust wanted to say thx for writing a blogpost. Rare to see great history snippets left as a comment on HN with any link to a longer form content from the author’s perspective if one is curious.
- jgehrcke 7y agoThanks for the kind words!
- mstade 7y agoOh man those screenshots really are a throwback: - [x] Quake <3 - [x] Classic windows UI; custom scheme - [x] Double height task bar - [x] ICQ & mIRC for all your communications needs; I'll give you a pass for Outlook when there were clearly "better" alternatives like Pegasus ;o) - [x] Broken icon in taskbar launcher area I'm loving it, thanks for sharing!
- geniium 7y agoWas about to write the same :)