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I remember typing whitehouse.com (hoping that was safe) in the early days of Internet... nope, it was not the same as whitehouse.gov!

Nice! Can the generated link please include 'safelinks.protection.outlook' somewhere?

I get strong "Office Open XML" vibes from this one.

There will be a day when this passes, and again it will be a loss for humans and a win for (American) tech giants.

Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/893/

I have a tendency to locate annoying beepers and disconnect them...

Miele from my grandmother still running here, 1988 machine! No defects, still pristine inside. No guarantee though that today's Miele is the same quality.

> The web page source seems full of Easter eggs

Indeed... click the video play button :)

> like naming your company "The" or "God".

or naming a product "Word" or "Office" or "Windows". :)

But but but the creator himself said it is gif like in gin and giraffe... right?

TIL: gimp is gimp and not gimp? I always pronounced this like gin.

And yet it is gif like in gin and giraffe...

Creator yes, but is Gridfinity not based on this video from Alexandre Chapel? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHFK5sY8ToE

1. SSL

2. I'm 56 and was active in computer clubs in the late 80s, no network, no hard drive, thousands of floppy's.

Linux works. At home I made the switch in 2003, after a couple of years triple booting Win98, OS/2 and Linux. I feel lucky to have never used XP/Vista/7/8/10/11.

Back then it was common for Netscape to have features that (years) later became standard HTML.

There is an 'unhook' add-on for Firefox that blocks all shorts forever. Highly recommended.

Back then things like postmaster@theirdomain and webmaster@theirdomain were read by actual people. Also the whois command often worked.

> As a sole maintainer of an open source project, I was enthused when Microsoft reached out to set up a meeting to talk about Spegel. The meeting went well, and I felt there was going to be a path forward ripe with cooperation and hopefully a place where I could onboard new maintainers.

I bet the Spyglass people had the same thought.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyglass,_Inc.

I was alive, and it did happen.

I never did it myself, but did get copies of the (British I think) broadcasts on cassette for the ZX Spectrum. iirc a program would be about five-six minutes of beeps.

> HN has been my very favorite website that I consciously open every day since last ~15 years. It is the portal to get the ambient and relevant view of the techland.

I bet a lot of people here would say the same thing about Slashdot ten to fifteen years ago. @HN: Thanks and please don't change.

Since these systems were from the 90ies they indeed did not get security updates.

Most were only locally connected (for example OS/2 had a Token Ring in one building). The WAN connection (for AS/400) was trusted.

Didn't mean to bash you, sorry.

I saw years of uptime on those systems whereas Win2000 iirc needed a reboot for every single update of the OS, and even for applications like IIS or Exchange.

Compared to NT4 it was probably very stable, since I remember telling most clients to just shut it down Friday evening and boot it Monday morning cause the pre-SP4 NT4 could not stay up more than three weeks.

Compare that to AS/400, where we pushed updates all over the country, without warning clients, to system running in hospitals, and there never was even the slightest problem. It sounds irresponsible to do that today, but those updates just worked, all the time and all applications continued to work.

> Seriously, Windows 2000 was one of the most stable OS back in the day, rock solid. I used 2000 server as a desktop OS, instead of 98.

Really? Oh, compared to other Windows versions...

Because it never came close to the stability of OS/400, Netware 3, AIX, Solaris or even OS/2 v2.

The Internet worked fine without ads though.

> = (2 + 0!)^2*5

How?

0! = 1 so how does 3^2*5 become 2025?

You mean like tmux or screen? EDIT: apparently not, sorry.

> Reading the whole thing, I think the author would agree

Yes, I think so too.

> Maybe they were there when you weren't there and they're asking the same question about you?

No.

She complained about not seeing anyone. She had a clear mind and we talked a lot about her friends and family.

Please visit people when they are still alive.

My aunt was alone for the last three years of her live, up to 94 years old. She had almost no visitors, and was not able to go out by herself. I went there about every week, and was always the only visitor.

Then came the funeral, with well over 400 people there, and around 200 people at the coffee table after the funeral. And I was like: Where the hell were you guys the past three years? She was alone (after her husband died) and most of you never visited her since (and no they were not living far away or unable to visit).

Go to the funeral yes, but don't wait until.

That came later, end of 1996 with OSR2.

For sure we did. Our backdoor, and that of all the neighbours was unlocked day and night. Same for my grandmothers' house and her neighbours. 1970s.