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[–] 74 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

90% of internet in the 90s was hosted like this.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    It feels like a loss that this is no longer the case.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    And its mostly the fault of ISPs

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    They stopped giving people static IP addresses by default, which makes at home self hosting too hard for normies.

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  • Wasn't really static IP, but upload caps and bandwidth limits. And "updated Terms of Service." To your point, they started charging for static IPs or just not offering them for "home" service. In the early days (feeling old yet), self hosting wasn't shut down so much as shared hosting from home. People were running shared web and email hosts from home and ISPs didn't like that added cost and competition, mostly cost. Bandwidth was expensive going over copper exchanges.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    PSU in the top, old round keyboard and mouse plugs... I get it, you shouldn't touch anything in a museum.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    ... did they stop putting PSUs at the top?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Always at the bottom these days

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    My desktop has it at the top, as did the PC I had before it a few years ago. I've seen PCs with it at the bottom, but I've never owned one, so hearing that they're always at the bottom is weird to me.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Here you see all cases with either the PSU in the bottom, or with some in the back when it's a wide case. No where in the top of the case.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Just turn the case around. Problem solved.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Huh, I guess it is more common than I thought. I wonder how I ended up coincidentally only buying cases with it at the top if they're so uncommon.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I have an old case that takes a PSU at the top.
    I bought a PSU made for being at the bottom, and placing it in their meant giving it the CPU heat in its intake. It felt like it would burn up any minute.

    I took some used aluminium cans, cut them up using expensive scissors (~5x the price of normal scissors, in turn, it won't go bad, cutting plastic boxes and aluminium sheet) and made a frame to mount the PSU on the top, instead of inside the case.

    The wires had to go around, making it a partially open case, but it worked. No feeling of imminent fire hazard and the PSU was exhausting air at a relieving temperature.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    About 15 years ago I did some work with a large international pharmaceutical company with over 2,000 of offices across the world. There was a laptop in an empty cubicle with signs like this on it. Apparently if it turned off their entire email system would go down.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    So, what they're saying is that the sign needs to be removed before unplugging anything. Gotcha, can do

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    There's always that one guy in the office too...

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    it started with a sign that only said "don't unplug the cables" and had to expand as things kept happening

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    PS2, VGA and RS232 cables. Takes me back..

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Needs a blinkenlights sign

    ACHTUNG! ALLES LOOKENSPEEPERS! Das computermachine ist nicht fuer gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht fuer gewerken bei das dumpkopfen. Das rubbernecken sichtseeren keepen das cotten-pickenen hans in das pockets muss; relaxen und watchen das blinkenlichten.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    First time I read that was in about '89/'90 in a printed book of computer jokes gifted to me by my then mother-in-law. Still made me laugh. Thanks for the nostalgia hit.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    PS/2 port being used? How old is this image?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It could be from today. I've worked at several manufacturing facilities where something like this is hooked up to a huge ancient device with a serial cable because the drivers only exist for Windows XP and the Italian business who made the machine went out of business decades ago.

    I suspect this was taken in the early 2000s, though, since the fan isn't caked in an inch of dust and grime yet.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    I had a photo kiosk at an old job that I wanted to put something like that for their USB cables. I swear you touch them during transfer and boom your download = canceled.

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    Unplugging goes brrrrr.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    This one is too clean to be the case, but factories usually have a few computers like this.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    This is 100% on the back of a Gateway.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    So we broke it?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    OMG is that PS/2? 😮

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