This is the Internet I miss!
What? You don't like browsing the web, where everyone is shoving politics down your throat, and making violent hostile threats, and everybodys offended over baby names, and the web is like 3 websites big???
You don't LOVE that?
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Try finding a nice desktop background picture of something specific. It's all just links to subscription based stock image sites.
If anyone knows places to search for freely shared images that would be amazing. Just wanted a whale shark photo in 2K..
If anyone knows places to search for freely shared images that would be amazing
Good shout, thank you
It's unfortunate, but AI image generators will make exactly what you want, royalty free.
Onboarding the general population was such a historic mistake
It is still there, just not picked up by Google or Bing.
Nice find. Really whips the Llamas ass.
This takes me back to a simpler time.
A time of playing Total Anihilation and hanging on MSN messenger.
Does anyone remember musicmatch jukebox with the jumping sheep visualisation?
Oh god musicmatch was soooo good, it was my daily driver while everyone else was using winamp...something about whipping unsuspecting animals in the ass.
This is pretty cool, although it makes me feel old.
I can't imagine anyone younger than 30 would even get what this article is about.
Actually, I'd love to hear from anybody younger than 30. Does this article make sense to you at all?
I am not at all representative of my age group (I am on lemmy ffs), but yes, I do know what winamp is/was.
Yeah? Dude got some corrupt skins for the Winamp program back in the day that didn't work and poked into the files to see what was in there.
Makes me wanna check out WACUP, but last time I tried a skin with it that I at least remember working back in the day, it didn't work.
Idk maybe it's because I'm not American so we didn't have the latest tech at all times, but I'm in my mid-20s and my first OS was Windows 2000 (no I don't mean ME). I remember my dad teaching me how to rip CDs with Alcohol 120% when I was 5 or so lol.
I'm under 30, I have no idea what winamp is but I figured it's some music software from the skins' pics. I imagine it was popular for it to have a museum thing about user created skins
(I haven't googled anything yet)
*crickets*
Bro people know what hieroglyphs and wax Edison cylinders are. People know things, winamp is not some obscure hidden knowledge
Wasn't implying it was hidden knowledge.
I was thinking about the zeitgeist of different generations in context of computing.
This is like finding digital time capsules. Very interesting.
What a great read. Thanks for sharing.
I wonder if a "KOOL" tube is a tube for smoking a cigarette out of (I remember that being a brand).
Such a lovely post, a nice distraction from all the doom scrolling articles! I wish we had more of this.
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I should write a happy news moderator bot for my instance.
Oh wow, I never heard of the skin archive. This is fantastic.
I still use Winamp 2.95, with a Pure Pwnage skin I downloaded back in the mid 2000s. Added it to the archive.
You must be a l33t h4x0r!
Boom! Headshot!
Oh for fucks sake, now the article itself has a misplaced mobile Wikipedia link and there's nowhere I can quickly see to put my copy paste about it.
copy paste for context:
Please, anyone who reads this, stop posting links to the mobile version of Wikipedia. It doesn’t switch automatically on PC, and I see it happen all the time. Just take the half a second to remove the “.m” from the beginning of the link, save everyone else from the pain of having to be surprised by it and taking the time to do it themselves.
General infosec tip: keep your browser add-ons to the absolute minimum you can live with. Add-ons are attack vectors. The more you have - the more at risk you are. And only install the ones you have a reason to trust.
Post the Flintstones image, you coward!
That was truly strange, awesome
If you want to see the Flintstones R34 image you have to the crack the file yourself.
Eventually I figured out that the password needed to be lower case. Inside were a bunch of
.avsfiles
https://fileinfo.com/extension/avs
.. is a configuration file used by Advanced Visualization Studio (AVS), an audio visualizer for the Nullsoft Winamp media player.
This is a truly fantastic story. It reminds me of why the Internet is cool, if you dig deep enough, there's always treasure to be found.
what a great article
I think audacious can load winamp skins (and xmms skins).
Will try at some point.
That's really cool
Really enjoyed the ride, very interesting. Thanks for sharing!
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
