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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeh, the author didn't seem to mind his reply but would it have killed the guy to be a little more cordial with his tone?

 

1998 plea for restraint reveals a lost world where the 'Net was an opt-in experience.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

aww bash.org seems to be down right now?? well here is the text :)

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hey, if you type in your pw, it will show as stars
********* see!
hunter2
doesnt look like stars to me
*******
thats what I see
oh, really?
Absolutely
you can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2
haha, does that look funny to you?
lol, yes. See, when YOU type hunter2, it shows to us as *******
thats neat, I didnt know IRC did that
yep, no matter how many times you type hunter2, it will show to us as *******
awesome!
wait, how do you know my pw?
er, I just copy pasted YOUR ******'s and it appears to YOU as hunter2 cause its your pw
oh, ok.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I was only a teenager at the time, but even then I thought that surely smart people had been looking at this issue and coming up with solutions before Y2K was going to happen

I never understood the media hysteria, but now that I'm older I see the general media is clueless when it comes to tech so that's probably why the 'panic' (and of course they can always find some 'expert' to claim that doomsday is coming!)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

it’s funny because I was able to get a standup desk in my home office

I’m in better shape now than when I was sitting at the office (plus zero distractions from the cOlAbErAtIvE oPeN fLoOr pLaN)

 

was anyone else disappointed that planes were not literally falling out of the sky on Y2K?

anyway, here are some real world examples of actual problems that did occur

I did like the Leonard Nimoy video with experts attempting to rate how bad things were going to be :)

and of course the Y2K survival kit commercial was unintentionally hilarious with the shattered glass and sirens going off in the background

did anyone here have to deal with issues caused by Y2K, or spend time preparing systems beforehand?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

there is also some interesting background information about the game by the creator here on their website:

https://ski.ihoc.net/

 

SkiFree is the standalone version of the game originally included as a part of the Microsoft Entertainment Pack 3 (1991) for Windows 3.x, and later made available separately for Windows 3.x. It was then re-compiled for 32-bit Windows systems when the author found back the source code and released it for free through his website.

The skier can be steered using the keyboard or the mouse. It is also possible to jump, but the biggest ones are achieved with the help of rocks, bumps and rainbow-coloured pads. After the finish, the skier can move on until he is caught by the abominable snow monster. There are various obstacles, such as trees, snowboarders, rocks and more.

 

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

forever burned into my brain

 

available via homebrew with:
brew install --cask cool-retro-term

according to the github, most distributions such as Ubuntu, Fedora or Arch already have the package cool-retro-term in their official repositories

cool-retro-term screenshot of cowsay saying hello lemmy