ITT: /g/ in 1996
Downloading nes, snes with dialup takes too much time
i just got doom on SNES, how is it even possible? poor megadrive guys
goo goo ga ga!*shits into my diaper*
Spending summer playing Quake, DN3D on LAN, playing Resident Evil on PS and catching up X-Files.
>>108774026XML is the future! You can even program XML transformations in XML!
I was only a concept back then
>>108774026>be me>11 years old>pop the first boner to lara croft while playing tomb rider
>>108774100Lol, what the fuck is wrong with their mouths/faces?
>>108774026I'm going to create an mp3 player that's combines an amplifier for windows. Name? Ampwin?
>>108774026this is my desktop 95, do you wanna play some Mario?
>>108774100A Final Fantasy movie?? Whoa! I can't wait!
>>108774047there's no SNES emulators in 1996 zoomer
Enjoy mon negreshttp://theoldnet.com/
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>>108774026Apple will die soon. Few tears will be shed.
>>108774135Were do you think the og söyjak originated?
>>108774225You Wangblows guys have been shouting that for two years ago. Obsessed. Enjoy your BSOD every 5 minutes, I guess.
>>108774096With XML, we can also let business stakeholders make their own DSLs to solve all their problems bros. We truly are living in the future.
What are you gonna do with 32MB of RAM anyway? Break into the CIA?
>>108774296lol your antiquated shit OS doesn't even have memory protection it's using a 10 year old code base
The Simpsons is probably ending after this season, right?
>falling for the 3dfx grift There is literally NO reason to buy a GPU for your PC. The Voodoo is DOA; you don't "need" a GPU for DOOM or Quake and anyone who cares about pretty 3D graphics beyond that already has a PlayStation. You retards will stick ANYTHING inside your case.
>>108774296Ross Perot has a better chance of being elected president than Apple does still being here by Christmas '97.
>>108774386i remember when my TRS-80 had 48k of RAM
Voodoo supremacy, 3D Rage busriders BTFO with no recovery.
I need that new console called sony PlayStation.
>>108774455N64 launches this Christmas with le no gaemes.
>>108774159There were still floppy disk based piracy devices.
>>108774502I heard about a game called Mario 64.But I seriously doubt it's a decent game.
looking to replace my 486. only two years old and totally outdated and can't run a lick of new software.
Thread: Help, my Linux install is completely hosed Date: 14 Nov 1996OP: anonymous@ppp23.dialup.netJust installed Slackware 3.1 from the Walnut Creek CD.Recompiled the kernel to add sound support for my SB16.Now it won’t boot. Just hangs after “Uncompressing Linux… OK”.Did I brick my system?Specs:Pentium 13316MB RAM1.2GB Western DigitalDiamond Stealth 64US Robotics 28.8Please help before my dad finds out I repartitioned his drive.
>>108774072>swims into mommies belly
Packard Hell sucks. Please don't buy their garbage PCs.
>>108774539You must be 18 to use this newsgroup, kiddo.
The Wall Street Journal reports Apple sustains its fourth consecutive quarter of losses. The end draws near for the gay fruitcult.
>>108774614will you PeeCee faggots stop cross-posting and raiding comp.sys.mac already?
>>108774252KEK
>>108774252>you're just a lawnmower man anon!
>>108774052who's still gaming on a Genesis in 19 fucking 96?
>>108774148>3840x2160I was almost finished downloading the first 16 lines of this image but then my mom picked up the phone...
>>108774791I'm poor and haven't gotten a PS1 yet.
my boss wants to upgrade our office from win 3.11 to 95 but i told him OS/2 is objectively superior. true multitasking, better memory management, runs win32 apps anyway so whats the point. he says "nobody got fired for buying microsoft." hes a brainlet. wat do
CNN has a website now. ESPN has a website. i read the news online before it was on TV tonight. is this the end of broadcast media?
>>108774890no. 99% of people will never use the internet. this is a hobby for nerds. my parents think AOL IS the internet and thats fine for them
>>108774890imagine thinking you can watch video over 28.8k. a 2 minute RealPlayer clip takes 40 minutes to buffer and looks like a postage stamp. TV is fine
>>108774868No one but IBM itself was interested in OS/2 by 1996.
>>108774890Even Bob Dole has a website.
>>108774903>he thinks bandwidth stays at 28.8k foreverin 10 years everyone will have broadband and internet will eat television alive. screencap this
I have a Sega Saturn. No one else seems to have one. It's really neat. There is only one shelf full of games to rent at the closest shop(and it's the only one that rents Saturn games in a pretty big suburb).The boxes are also oversized, so there's like...9 games to rent or something. The best game is Winning Post. It's a horse racing sim. Virtua Fighter and Daytona are alright. And This golf game I got as a gift, the main character is some fat golfer in the PGA called 'The Walrus'(he is real). The game is alright.I'm having fun, but Playstation was cheaper...and this guy in my class who got it seems to be enjoying it. Maybe I should have gotten that, but who can trust the Sony Walkman and stereo makers over Sega? Saturn is fun though. Future will will surely also buy the next Sega console, it came to me in a Dream...
>>108774925>Future will will *Future me(my name is not Will)
>>108774026I was born :)
imagine Nintendo still being retarded enough to be using cartridges on the N64. just imagine.
Here's a video of the Saturn golf game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaTexLcV9QAAmazing FMV graphics. Rad.
i use yggdrasil btw
>>108774026Internet Explorer 3 is free, and has everything you need! JScript AND VBScript! VRML! ActiveX! They bundle Comic Chat, Net Meeting, and Real Player!Welcome to the 21st century Web! Say goodbye to boring text message boards, no one will ever use them again.
that Simpsons episode last night was terrible. i'm going to write a diatribe on alt.tv.simpsons and hope the writers don't read it and use Comic Book Guy to make fun of me next season.
>>108774945Sure it isn't. Surely you didn't post your real name on the internet. Whatever happens, don't ever do that!
>>108774026........>50% in my father's balls 50% in my mother's egg which is the 2nd-4th in line to get ejected from the ovaries
>>108774567don't you mean wholetpackit?
>>108774539>2.1GBBasedhttps://www.richis-lab.de/HDD_WD_Caviar_22100.htm
>>108774520do I need to play the first 63 to understand the story?
>TFW still on a 486SX 33MHz 'cause mommy and daddy won't buy a Pentium.(I upgraded it to a DX4 100 with the money from my first Mcjob.)
>>108774567>Packard Bell was founded in 1986 by Israeli entrepreneurs Beny Alagem, Jason Barzilay, and Alex Sandel after purchasing the name of a defunct radio manufacturer.[32]
Those Quantum Fireball 1GB drives were loud enough to wake the dead.
>>108775974They get shit on a lot and rightfully so for their bargain bin cheap shit PCs, but they actually were an innovative company since they were the first guys to sell pre-set up PCs. Not even kidding. In the early days, like if you bought an IBM XT or something, you had to do everything yourself like formatting and partitioning the hard disk and installing all software. Nothing was pre-loaded from the factory. So Packard Bell were the first guys to have fully pre-formatted hard disks with the OS installed.
>>108776010>they're the good guys>they lowered the entry barrier>surely our hobby won't be flooded with retarded normalfags and complete shit in about 30 years from now
>>108776035normalfags didn't arrive to PCs until the Internet when it was possible to view unlimited porn
>>108775943>June 93This three year old PC is already a museum piece.
MY FUCKING FLOPPY DISK? MORE LIKE FLOPPY DICK. CD-ROM IS THE FUTURE!!!!
>>108776120that was the worst part of the 90s. technology advanced literally so fast that you had to buy new machines or upgrade your existing one pretty much yearly to keep up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMmz2iVNo_oMy buddy went to SIGGRAPH with his camera, he says Microsoft introduced Talisman, a new 3D accelerator that only renders the changed pats of the picture, and will build their Direct3D libraries around it.
Triumph of the nerd was released in 1996https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_of_the_Nerdshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1yzXkH5Pfotwo moments:the man, the legend himself dropping some truth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1yzXkH5Pfo&t=5288sLarry Wall revealing the big plan. the current state of tech was already planned back then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1yzXkH5Pfo&t=8738s
The bad times of Apple's mid-90s near-death, a hundred and fifty different models of Macintosh with two different CPU architectures, shitty plastic cases that disintegrated if you looked at them funny, and more.
3d graphics cards are a fad, CPUs will effortlessly outscale them. haven't you retards ever heard of moore's law?
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>>108776181thanks to Michael Spindler, that German fuck who viewed the company mostly as an ATM machine and wanted volume at all costs
>>108776176made a mistake. it's larry ellison, founder of Oracle. not Larry wall (creator of perl).
>>108774026learn php and sql, it will take over the world soon
>>108776181i don't think anyone seriously bought a Mac during this era unless it was a public school system
Time to raid comp.sys.mac with more Apple will go bankrupt in 2 months posts.
>>108774026My new modem holds a stable 4.3 kb/s. Way up from 3.8.
>>108774148Pretty cool! Can I download this picture to use it as my background?
>>108774977happy birthday :D
>new Windows will be called Memphisopinions?
I can't finish Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Guys I love tech.
>>108774026https://youtu.be/Zh8rgDnpR-E?si=4ZWWJGAnEyDuEtW7&t=54
>>108774026I heard some rather nastyh rumours about a photograph making the rounds on the www featuring a woman and a horse.Mothertrucker! cold solder joints again, shit turning purple.ping sysop: can you reupload the old mk1 wolverine crack? Much appreciated. Fresh Pentium, wanna replay this thing with backgrounds on.
>>108776183I don't think it sounded true at any year.In 1986, maybe, but during the '80s IBM PC compatibles were totally disabled graphically-wise compared even to much cheaper consoles, and since the first half of the '90s everyone wanted to be “3D”, and expensive arcade machines with polygon rasterizers showed everyone the future.The problem was the kind of 3D they imagined. Combined 2D backgrounds (Alone in the Dark, FF7), secondary small windows in the interface (Eye of the Beholder), Wolfenstein 3D-like maze shooters and other environments like race tracks always moving in a single direction or enclosed rooms where wall polygons did not need to be sorted. Hardware makers were assuming very low pixel overwrite ratio (2-3 at most), and that did not allow random camera and object positions.http://web.archive.org/web/19970707220556/http://www.vxm.com/21R.98.htmlhttps://web.archive.org/web/19980202165701/http://www.vxm.com/21R.114.htmlThen 3dfx (and in part Playstation) showed that fill rate dominated everything, and people were fine with 8×8 pixel textures if the gameplay felt dynamic and reactive instead of slow.
Bros 1997 will be the year of lisp, I can feel it
Internet Explorer 3 blows Netscape out of the water, it has JScript which is Microsoft's replacement for JavaScriptIt's over
Pentium 133MHz. 32MB EDO RAM. Diamond Speedstar 64 w/ 2MB VRAM. Running Windows 95 OSR1. Yes I know, I know. I'm compiling Linux right now actually, going to wipe this garbage and go full Slackware. Don't bother rating until then. I'll post again in a few days when X11 is configured.
Holy fuck you guys my school just got Macs and they're all hooked up to a T1 line! I never want to use a dial up modem again.
>>108774979Better than waiting 30 minutes for the next level to load LOL.
>>108774026I can’t wait to come back to the screen tomorrow to see what pic OP posted
>>108774052Doom on 32x is superior with virtua fighter
Car AC on in the summer and blasting this CD was peak life:https://x0.at/Nb_W.flacPre-"loudness war" CDs were something else. Boomer audiophiles forgot that quick lol.The flac file is a direct rip of that CD btw.R.I.P Jörg Schilling
>>108780387IE3 tranny hands typed this. I don't care that it supports frames now. The moment Bill Gates bought the internet is the moment I stopped caring. Navigator 3.0 with JavaScript disabled is the last good browser we'll ever get. Just wait until every page is a 400KB JavaScript maze that needs a Pentium Pro just to render a table.>he uses IE>he trusts Microsoft>oh no no no
Java is the future. Write once, run anywhere. Think about what this means. I never have to think about the OS again. The OS is dead. Microsoft is dead and they just don't know it yet. In five years everything runs in the browser as a Java applet.
Think about what Netscape is doing. It's sending your ENTIRE BROWSING HISTORY back to their servers in California. How do I know this? I ran a packet sniffer on my PPP connection while loading their homepage and saw outbound traffic that I cannot fully explain. Do not use a GUI browser. Lynx renders text. Text is enough. If a webpage requires more than text it is not a webpage, it is a brochure. I will not be reading brochures.
4 years left!
is anyone actually paying for internet access lmao. I've had a free AOL trial disc running for 8 months
>>108774791I would sneak into my cousin's room to play Mortal Kombat when she was out of the house. I had an SNES and preferred that, but I was curious about Sega for a bit there.
>>108780961Java applets are a botnet and Sun Microsystems is not to be trusted
