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by flomo 5y ago
In my parents area of the US, Bell had a monthly charge for 'touch-tone' dialing. My father always held out, but eventually they sent him a voucher for replacing their rotary phones. I've only seen rotary-to-mobile adapters a
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by flomo 5y ago
Covered by point 10 (quid pro quo) - Android is both a Commercial Trap (effectively requires Google Play services) and User Exploitation.
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by flomo 5y ago
More interested in listening the related story: "Was organized crime behind the demise of Twin Cities streetcars?" Featuring a picture of the ceremonial burning of the last streetcar, after a tour with local politicians. (Haven&#x
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by flomo 5y ago
This was the standard way of DOM touching in the early days, e.g. FormName.FieldName.value = "foo";
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by flomo 5y ago
Yep, in fact the SA Forums entire business model was "arbitrary and capriciously" banning people so they would re-register and pay the 10bux. They had rules, but they were fungible enough so that intelligent and hilarious people w
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by flomo 5y ago
Something awful dot com was also blackholed by Google for many years because they did something to piss-off the internet overlords. (For most of the 2000s, you could google for "JeffK" and SA wouldn't show up until like page
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by flomo 5y ago
Yea I stopped paying attention, but the last "show off" game I remember was Crysis in 2007. But at that point Valve games, Sims, and etc were very lower-end friendly. The premise is just bizzare where OP thinks these bleeding-edge
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by flomo 5y ago
In addition, there was an extremely rapid increase of PC specs in the 1990s, and you if you had a 3-4 year old PC you probably could not play those games. "The PC you really want always costs $3500" as a famous columnist said. Peo
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by flomo 5y ago
When I was a teenager, they had a '86 Rivera parked right in the middle of the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. So I was able to climb in and play with the touchscreen, and it was one of those "the future is here" mome
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by flomo 5y ago
I've read that IBM offered training programs to secretaries, so it was a good career path. And there was a stereotype that typing = woman's work.
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by flomo 5y ago
Looking at San Francisco, HSBC only has a handful of retail locations, seems like they were focusing on the Chinese-American market. (They also have a building on Montgomery Bank Row, assume they're keeping that for their tooty custome
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by flomo 5y ago
Youtube's flash player was massively superior to plugin-based quicktime/windows media/mystery google thing. (Several replies and nobody has mentioned it, it was a huge factor.) Also you could just name a song and Youtube had
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by flomo 5y ago
Friday night HN thoughts... (1) IBM charges for "MIPS", so faster processor, mo' money. (2) Because of the humungo margins in this space, they have a great R&D budget. (3) The marketing has to be IBM mainframes are the mo
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by flomo 5y ago
"s390x" is the Linux nomenclature for this. Probably wasn't selected by IBM marketing.
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by flomo 5y ago
Yes and no. Specifically, Mac was lifesupport marketshare until Intel. Bootcamping or VMing Windows was a huge selling point at the time. (But maybe in the long-run, it turned out that UNIX was more valuable after all.) With apple silcon, A
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by flomo 5y ago
That was the theory, but in practice people spent a lot of time debugging the transaction server and cleaning out the registry, trying to figure out why their components weren't working. I think we had something like 50K lines of VBS a
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by flomo 5y ago
I have some old VBS ASP code around and it uses hungarian notation(!)
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by flomo 5y ago
Java and C# 1.0 examples (mostly) did not have anything like this, because they shipped with a database layer (JDBC/ADO.net) and not just a raw driver. PHP instead spent many years fucking around with hacks like addslashes() and etc be
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by flomo 5y ago
Bookmarked as a resource. It would be interesting to catalog info on primordial pre-web internet navigation tech: Gopher, WAIS, etc. Also "the competition", e.g. AOL succumbing to the WWW. Might be fun to have some stuff like Wir
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by flomo 5y ago
> Windows NT was "far better" than both, but was out of reach of consumer system for years... Microsoft had a far better developer roadmap with "32 bit protected mode with just a recompile." They sandwiched OS/2
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by flomo 5y ago
I believe you are correct. The IBM PC's direct competition was not so much Apple but 'business standard' CP/M Z80/8080 machines from a variety of vendors. Also IBM was under an antitrust decree requiring reasonable
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by flomo 5y ago
Good deal from a company obviously swirling around the bowl who sold computers through the mall ninja store. Great games! Meanwhile, their university presence was just about nil. If you weren't a gamer, you probably didn't know Am
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by flomo 5y ago
Yes and no. "Computers are the future", so middle class parents felt like they HAD to buy their kids a cheap Commodore or something. I think 80% of them ended up in the closet, most of them were used like game consoles and maybe 1
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by flomo 5y ago
It was a different time, when most of those new things came out, they were more expensive than whatever proceeded them (in a sense). Individuals weren't buying $10,000 Macintoshes, $20,000 NeXTCubes, and $30,000 UNIX/RISC workstat
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by flomo 5y ago
It's also "old think". In modern developments all this infrastructure belongs to the HOA/development corporation, and it is their long-term problem. But yes, to a great degree this is stare at the potholes, not the pensi
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by flomo 5y ago
Yeah, that was always one of the big problems with PHP. Google search would produce these old tutorials full of SQL injection code. I think there was a community effort to clean these up, so (un)fortunately we have AI to bring them back.
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by flomo 5y ago
Windows For Workgroups 3.11 had TCP/IP, but no PPP dialer for home users.
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by flomo 5y ago
On 2 different Windows XP machines, the 1394 controller would reset and the drive would disappear. So maybe that was part of the FW adoption problem. But mostly USB2 was fast enough for consumer drives, unless you were sitting there with a
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by flomo 5y ago
I worked at a place which had Lotus Sametime.
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by flomo 5y ago
Internet Explorer add-ons (if only because they were kinda a scourge) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_Explorer_add-...

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