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Anonymous No.105803898 [Report] >>105803924 >>105803965 >>105804228 >>105804356 >>105804367 >>105805633 >>105808295 >>105809799 >>105811922 >>105811957 >>105812431 >>105812520 >>105812550 >>105816482 >>105816487 >>105817332 >>105822625 >>105824041 >>105824345
Forgotten software you used in your teens
I'll start:
Virtual DJ,
PhotoScape,
Movie Maker,
Soulseek (best logo ever btw)
Anonymous No.105803911 [Report]
Kazza, Limewire, Sharezilla, AVG, Windows Media Player, Firefox, ICQ.
All dead...
Anonymous No.105803924 [Report] >>105803934 >>105806997 >>105811794 >>105815734
>>105803898 (OP)
Look mom, I'm a DJ!

Apparently it was bought out by Adobe.
Anonymous No.105803934 [Report]
>>105803924
>Apparently it was bought out by Adobe.
Oh man, I just rememberdownloading Dreamweaver (pirated) and making a website for me and uploading it to one of those garbage free hosting sites that fill your page with sketchy porn ads.
Anonymous No.105803965 [Report] >>105810763 >>105823281
>>105803898 (OP)
Anonymous No.105804228 [Report] >>105805653 >>105805662 >>105805662
>>105803898 (OP)
Anonymous No.105804356 [Report] >>105804382 >>105805811 >>105822585
>>105803898 (OP)
i used to get a subscription to Mac Addict magazine for the monthly cd full of shareware
Anonymous No.105804367 [Report]
>>105803898 (OP)
I wonder how VirtualDJ is going nowadays
Anonymous No.105804382 [Report] >>105805811
>>105804356
same, used to have like, 5 years worth of mags stored but im pretty sure they got thrown out years ago. the discs were pretty fun back in the day.
Anonymous No.105805633 [Report]
>>105803898 (OP)
dos, basic.
Anonymous No.105805653 [Report] >>105808273
>>105804228
I still use midnight commander on my linux and bsd machines. the interface is /comfy/ and timeless.
a shame the modern world has abandoned that which is beautiful and effective for heaps of shitty jeet garbage
Anonymous No.105805662 [Report]
>>105804228
>>105804228
https://github.com/adamyg/mcwin32
Anonymous No.105805680 [Report] >>105811993 >>105819567
Anonymous No.105805811 [Report]
>>105804356
>>105804382
Same, played Marathon before Doom thanks to them
Anonymous No.105806997 [Report]
>>105803924
it was bought by adobe. was an amazing program.
Anonymous No.105808273 [Report]
>>105805653
>use midnight commander on my linux and bsd machines
Ditto.
And I've got MC on my Windows box. Much easier to shovel random files around w/ sftp.
Anonymous No.105808295 [Report]
>>105803898 (OP)
Not a software bu a website, Stumble Upon
Cool shit you could find on there. Now apparently you have to sign up ? I don't know but something changed.
Anonymous No.105808557 [Report]
Emule, The All Seeing Eye, Xfire
Anonymous No.105809799 [Report]
>>105803898 (OP)
fraps
Anonymous No.105810168 [Report]
Kai's Super Goo
Dance eJay
Anonymous No.105810338 [Report] >>105811846 >>105811982 >>105812204 >>105822636
Virtuagirl
Anonymous No.105810719 [Report] >>105810763
sovl
Anonymous No.105810746 [Report]
FlashFXP, WinZip, zMUD, Napster, The All-Seeing Eye
Anonymous No.105810763 [Report]
>>105803965
When I was much, much younger, I made thousands of dollars a month doing local computer repair, malware removal, backups, recovery, reinstalls, and installing + enabling pirated software (only using serial keys and/or config tricks, NO "cracks", which were always high risk for malware). This, Spybot S&D, and ClamWin never failed to impress customers, and if I had to boot into Hiren's, forget about it. Customers thought it was all black magic, and some would get really emotional and thankful. All through Craigslist and fliers in apartment buildings.

>>105810719
This and SoulSeek were tight (SoulSeek and any of the alt clients for it still are). Even on dial up I always had one of them running around the clock.
Anonymous No.105810802 [Report]
TISFAT
Anonymous No.105810811 [Report]
MSWLogo
Anonymous No.105811794 [Report]
>>105803924
Yeah, it was turned into Adobe Audition. In Audition v1.5, the help file said "Cool Edit" in a few places, IIRC.
Anonymous No.105811846 [Report]
>>105810338
this would make gorillions today desu
add all the anime girls
and make it speak/animate copilot answers
Anonymous No.105811922 [Report]
>>105803898 (OP)
Napster, aim
Anonymous No.105811950 [Report] >>105812641 >>105812696 >>105812742 >>105817332 >>105819352 >>105819363 >>105819572 >>105819616 >>105822698 >>105824309
Anonymous No.105811957 [Report] >>105812066 >>105812115
>>105803898 (OP)
aim, winamp, mpc, utorrent, that drive emulator with the sheep icon, notepad++, tibywall, uhhhhh I can't remember I've been using Linux only for like 15 years, and I never really did much on Windows except consume content..

I did really love the 1998-2004 era on AOL, I was a retard who used to spam porno for adult revenue service, not even smart enough to be a script kiddie, but I did manage to make some shit with vb6 via popular aol api bas files. had a bunch of "leet" Phish, 3chars, indents, host accts, etc. you could harvest screen names in random lobby chats, load them into a password cracker with a simple password list of like abc123, password1, iloveu, nsync, etc. and amass hundreds of stolen accounts to use for dialup Internet access so you could do your dirt without getting mom's AOL account permabanned.

Empee3 player by freeza, t4nk by Kai (a phish tank for storing stolen accounts), spamsock (a winsock and later cgi-formmail spammer), ass by Mikey (aim spamming system) were some of my favorite AOL proggies.. crackers died all the time as the exploits were patched by AOL, but I used a lot of them. We used to hang out in private chat "vb" and all the l337 h4z0rs would be there with their idlers, mp3 players, spamming programs or password crackers chat-sending their rates per minute and shit.

Those were the days. I wish I had been a little older so that I'd have learned more during that era. I remember using red hat and mandrake Linux for the first time during that era.

I miss the sounds old computers used to make too. The warm flicker of a crt monitor, the clicks buzzes and hums of a PC booting up, building Frankenstein machines out of all kinds of found and stolen parts. Good times.
Anonymous No.105811982 [Report] >>105812066
>>105810338
For me it was sheep.exe..
Anonymous No.105811993 [Report]
>>105805680
I'm literally using TeamSpeak right now.
Anonymous No.105812066 [Report]
>>105811982
>>105811957
here's a screenshot from a Windows 7 VM I put together years ago, for nostalgia purposes, long after switching to linux.. I never really used Windows 7 for very long I bailed not long after XP became unviable
Anonymous No.105812070 [Report] >>105812093 >>105812137
Like an IRC client but with a 2D plane everyone can their avatar around on. Avatars can be any image.
Had trouble even finding existence of this but used to use it daily to talk to some weirdos I knew.
Anonymous No.105812093 [Report] >>105812108 >>105812137
>>105812070
Found a better picture but I guess Reddit converts gifs to mp4 even when they're not animated
Anonymous No.105812108 [Report]
>>105812093
what's with all the blackface???? yikes
Anonymous No.105812115 [Report]
>>105811957
I prefer my OLED thank you very much
Also I do miss the sounds, it's not even nostalgia everything now feels so sanitized lacking of character. I should find a archive of old sound effects and change them in my DE
Anonymous No.105812119 [Report] >>105812209 >>105822688
I remember Yahoo messenger had a public chat thing and I found a lady who was close by who let me suck on her titties.. I was a little fat 14-year-old and she was like 40, I rode my bike to her house.
Anonymous No.105812137 [Report] >>105812154
>>105812093
>>105812070
There were a couple of things using the same software or concept.
Look at this still up lol
https://vpchat.com/kickindex.html
https://vpchat.com/d/s1.html
Anonymous No.105812148 [Report]
blitz basic for windows xp
Anonymous No.105812154 [Report]
>>105812137
Anonymous No.105812204 [Report]
>>105810338
sexoooo
Anonymous No.105812209 [Report]
>>105812119
Yahoo and AIM were groomer central. I'm also surprised you weren't catfished by a fat hairy man
Anonymous No.105812431 [Report] >>105812503 >>105823039
>>105803898 (OP)
Anonymous No.105812503 [Report] >>105823039
>>105812431
I STILL use vdub2
Anonymous No.105812520 [Report]
>>105803898 (OP)
there was some program that logged the wifi password anytime you connected to a new one. this was useful when i was moving around a lot and would forget.

other than that, idk. i'm glad i have chat gpt and python and can just make scripts to convert things and format things for me.
Anonymous No.105812550 [Report]
>>105803898 (OP)
>Soulseek
>forgotten

You are a fag. Tons of cool content (music probably the most) is on slsk
Anonymous No.105812641 [Report] >>105812696
>>105811950
That brings up memories of talking with my mates and setting up Custom Games in WCIII.
Skype replaced it later.
Anonymous No.105812644 [Report] >>105823273
I still have the original Miku Hatsune voice bank. If only the company allowed me to use it!
Anonymous No.105812696 [Report]
>>105811950
>>105812641
>play the "guess the drawing" game with my friends
>it's always the same 5 or so objects
>still always play it anyway
>AXE, IT'S AXE, IS IT AXE?
Anonymous No.105812742 [Report]
>>105811950
SOOOOOVL
Anonymous No.105813690 [Report]
>letraset ReadySetGo!
>xerox Ventura
vvvvj
Anonymous No.105813696 [Report]
Theme Maker, had lots of fun making cursor and icons with it long ago.
Anonymous No.105815675 [Report]
DC++ (it still works)
Anonymous No.105815695 [Report]
Anonymous No.105815730 [Report] >>105815781 >>105823281
Alcohol 52%
GetRight Download Manager
Internet Explorer
Jasc Paint Shop Pro
mIRC
MSN Messenger
Nero Burning ROM
Sygate Personal Firewall
Visual Basic 6
VMWare Workstation
Windows Media Player
WinZip
Anonymous No.105815734 [Report]
>>105803924
>Apparently it was bought out by Adobe.
the epitaph on many a good software's tombstone
Anonymous No.105815780 [Report] >>105822770
picrel but on Win3.11
Anonymous No.105815781 [Report]
>>105815730
Anonymous No.105815789 [Report]
Encarta 95, Microsoft Plus!, AIM, Napster, Roxio Easy CD, Nero Burning ROM, Daemon Tools, Trillian, eMule/eDonkey, Kazaa
Anonymous No.105816075 [Report] >>105817134
Mosaic - 1st time I browsed the Web

Sun OS - the real Unix

QANTEL Paintbox - 1st TV tablet artwork
Anonymous No.105816482 [Report]
>>105803898 (OP)
FL studio 7,
Firefox 3.5 with Adblock Plus 1.0 and video download helper,
xilisoft YouTube converter,
replay video capture (for MySpace audio),
USB disk security,
avg free,
torrent 1.8.3,
Nero 8,
Microsoft Encarta,
Microsoft Math,
ardamax Keylogger,
qfx keyscrambler,
faronics deep freeze
Anonymous No.105816487 [Report]
>>105803898 (OP)
sonique mp3 player
Anonymous No.105816821 [Report] >>105822920
*sips Monster*
yip.
Anonymous No.105817125 [Report] >>105817294
PC-Write, a text mode editor
> wrote a fuck ton of manuals in this
> simple, fast, powerful
> would manually edit undelying documents for stuff in Ventura Publisher
Anonymous No.105817134 [Report] >>105817343
>>105816075
>Mosaic - 1st time I browsed the Web
Based
>Sun OS - the real Unix
giga based.
t. learned to type on pic rel, a Sun type 3 keyboard. God's keyboard, with Ctrl to left of 'A' key.
Anonymous No.105817196 [Report]
Anonymous No.105817294 [Report]
>>105817125
vitards btfo
Anonymous No.105817332 [Report]
>>105803898 (OP)
msmsgs.exe, preinstalled on every windows xp and used to communicate with girls met in mmos

besides that i still use everything i used back then

>>105811950
retard version
Anonymous No.105817343 [Report]
>>105817134
this keyboard layout gives me picrel vibes
Anonymous No.105818350 [Report]
Anonymous No.105819352 [Report]
>>105811950
(y)
Anonymous No.105819363 [Report]
>>105811950
I fucking loved WLM. It was so much better than AIM at the time.
Anonymous No.105819373 [Report]
Anonymous No.105819376 [Report] >>105820725
Adium was such a good IM client, had support for just about everything but it was a Mac exclusives. Had tons of great addons and customization options.
Anonymous No.105819493 [Report] >>105823281
Anonymous No.105819527 [Report] >>105823281
Anonymous No.105819559 [Report]
Litestep and gaim. Crazy that Pidgin is still a thing.
Anonymous No.105819567 [Report]
>>105805680
Oh wow that was so cool. I remember the sounds too. Player Left Player Joined New Player
Anonymous No.105819572 [Report]
>>105811950
Computers peaked here
Anonymous No.105819579 [Report] >>105822615
Anonymous No.105819616 [Report]
>>105811950
peak aesthetics UI, you could be 10 hours straight just using wlm, sharing shit with your friends, playing games, webcaming with your gf, it was so comfy.
Anonymous No.105820725 [Report]
>>105819376
>Adium
most IRC shortcuts worked on Adium
> be me
> Seattle startup in 2012
> "any computer you want . . . as long as it's a MacBook Pro"
> fuck.jpg
> made sense, tcpdump, netcat, python built-in and just worked
> "our IM client is Adium"
> wut
> I try a /me
> it works
They replaced it a couple years later with Google Chat / hangouts / meet / whatever-the-fuck-google-called-it-this-week.
Anonymous No.105821765 [Report] >>105824343
I never really used it but I wish Microsoft Comic Chat had caught on more than it did.
Anonymous No.105822585 [Report]
>>105804356
i fucking miss MacAddict
on archive.org, you can flip through all the old pages, and run their CDs on emulators in-browser, but its just not the same
Anonymous No.105822615 [Report]
>>105819579
e107 was always so much better than phpNuke
Anonymous No.105822625 [Report]
>>105803898 (OP)
daemon tools
imgburn
cdburnerxp
Anonymous No.105822636 [Report] >>105822667
>>105810338
Anonymous No.105822667 [Report]
>>105822636
Does he get them out?
Anonymous No.105822679 [Report] >>105823281
Logmein Hamachi
used to host minecraft server with friends without port forwarding
Anonymous No.105822688 [Report]
>>105812119
HAHAHA NOW THATS BASED!
Anonymous No.105822698 [Report]
>>105811950
I can't believe they replaced it with Skype
What a piece of shit Skype was in comparison. Totally killed their marketshare.
Anonymous No.105822770 [Report]
>>105815780
Nice, I had Ray Dream 3D back in the day Windows 9x days.
Anonymous No.105822920 [Report]
>>105816821
I definitely used AOL for longer than I care to admit.
Looking back, it was a pretty cool leftover from the 90s era of the internet, even if it was an absolutely inferior product compared to other browser at the time. AIM was pretty cool while it lasted. I still remember going on POGO and talking to people I met over AIM.
Anonymous No.105822954 [Report]
Anonymous No.105823039 [Report]
>>105812431
>>105812503
I both loved and hated virtualdub. Tight optimized software that just worked for what it did, abandoned and picked up by like 3-4 different groups but never updated for the world of .mkv and h.265 output. I think even h.264 was a struggle.

God damn frame serving with plugins takes me back to the software struggle days.
Anonymous No.105823273 [Report]
>>105812644
is it not physical? why cant you use it?
Anonymous No.105823281 [Report]
>>105815730
>>105819493
>>105819527
>>105822679
>>105803965
Anonymous No.105824041 [Report]
>>105803898 (OP)
I still use photoScape and soulseek
Anonymous No.105824253 [Report]
Dumping a couple

(Google) SketchUp
Anonymous No.105824262 [Report]
Coral DREAM 3D. Never did figure out how to use this one as a ~10 year old
Anonymous No.105824265 [Report] >>105824290 >>105824293 >>105824744
Foobar2000. Do people still use this shit? I seem to remember people on /g/ (or maybe it was /mu/) posting about it all the time, maybe 10 years ago. Never see it mentioned anymore.
Anonymous No.105824281 [Report]
Allegedly people in the legal industry still use WordPerfect to this day. Not sure if true. I only knew about it because it came with this CD containing a bunch of Corel software, where I also learned about DREAM 3D, back in like 2003 or some shit.
Anonymous No.105824290 [Report]
>>105824265
Of course people still use this. It's simple and just werks. But also has a bunch of plugins if you want to customize it.
Anonymous No.105824293 [Report]
µTorrent and Azureus. on to qBit now
Trillian, pidgin, AIM...
winamp
imgburn
KaZaA
LimeWire
daemon tools
>>105824265
I still use it and mpc-hc/k-lite daily
Anonymous No.105824301 [Report]
I think people still use GameMaker, but the current version is completely unrecognizable to me, so posting a screenshot of GameMaker 5 from 2003. I loved this shit as a kid. Now a little over 20 years later, I turned this into a career I love (not game development, but programming), and making an astronomical amount of money on top of that. Thanks for everything, Mark.
Anonymous No.105824309 [Report]
>>105811950
It just feels so warm and welcoming. Nowadays, these various messengers feel lifeless, obsessed over emotes and dumb filters.
Anonymous No.105824325 [Report]
Anonymous No.105824343 [Report]
>>105821765
Truly, the conversations were something straight from early 4chan.
Anonymous No.105824345 [Report]
>>105803898 (OP)
BearShare
Anonymous No.105824744 [Report]
>>105824265
Yup. Used this, used Winamp, but somehow ended up using iTunes for Windows, back when it was still a nice, tight program.