Mainly email, research, eventually Napster, irc chatting, and entertainment. Things were not fast on 14.4 or 28.8kbps dial up. When I got 56k,it took about an hour to download a 5MB mp3. Those were tough times. File downloaders were necessary apps, which would recover and continue your download after your modem connection quit halfway. It was also unheard of to have to log into a website. HTTP wasn't the only show in town, some other older nerds may remember Gopher (you can still browse it, too).

I think there are some similarities, but also some differences.

Lemmy will probably eventually attract the normies of which you speak. And that's not a bad thing. Bad things happen when low quality content and ad farming are prioritized. The nature of sharing culture, information, and entertainment will always attract new audience.

Because communities here aren't being monetized by corporate ownership, and because you can selectively add or block instances that don't meet community standards, I don't think Lemmy will fall prey to the same enshitifcation that slowly ruined reddit.

I love grabbing the ripcord like a safety pin and letting it go off like an adorable little gernard.

When the rubberized coating degrades off of something like a mouse, I'll use a scouring pad and alcohol to remove the rest of it. It usually leaves it a standard plastic finish. The material is breaking down, and will continue to do so, so I just remove it.

Someone needs to port this to contemporary vr...

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

They can. But then you won't have to keep giving them money.

Oscar is very handsome.

You ain't got no legs

But I love you just the same

Unlike traditional digital streaming platforms, the new Winamp Player will not be limited to music streaming. It will seamlessly combine premium streaming with users' local music libraries, internet radio stations, podcasts, personal cloud-based collections and other audio sources, while introducing a highly customizable interface, new social capabilities and innovative ways to discover, organize and enjoy music.

Source https://www.engadget.com/2259236/winamp-coming-back-2027-deezer-partnership-streaming-music/

It sounds like the local playback is the "optional" feature. That's still gonna be a no, at least for me. Fpr Hifi, I'll stick with FooBar2k, or something that is a proper hi-res FLAC player first and has bolt-ons/plugins second. The same article also links to another, they actually already released a new build of classic winamp a few years ago.

https://www.engadget.com/winamp-mp3-player-software-returns-191027227.html

It's coming back with a monthly subscription.

It's dead already, then. WinAmp's heritage was providing a free audio player. I was looking forward to a refreshed build to test out, but I won't pay for it.

There are a dozen better, free, maintained, and actively developed players out there. This is less than too little, and far too late. Those of us who used winamp back when it was still activly developed will continue to have nostalgia for it, but I bet it will be DOA to most of the target audience.

I've only kept up on news for it because I was hoping it would be reborn true to itself. I have zero interest in it as a subscription model.

Proper loaves

Adorable. Good on you for giving her a second chance.

Then you pay it

No, he fucked people getting involved with that, too.

The "freedom fuel" company he kept pushing sold over $4m wholesale cost in fuel, then paid for about 750k of it. My numbers may be slightly off. It was a significant loss for more than a couple businesses.

If you do business with him, you should not be surprised when you are left holding the bill.

TBh I loved Astro Lounge (the album that All Star is on). The rest of the album is quite good despite the wearing out of its most famous track.

It's clearly AI slop, like most of what comes out of the white house these days.

So are those 17 extra stars beyond Canada the other 17 countries he hasn't announced invasions on yet?

She's beautiful!

That was what we used for phone jacks before the current standard. It takes a square plug with 4 matching posts. We had one growing up.