Random thoughts thread

Thanks :grin:

Old internet, Old TVā€¦ it seems like everything was better 15 years agoā€¦ only fields seem to get better over time

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Just saw this in a movie, coincidentally.

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I miss the old CRT screens ā€” you can tell that pictureā€™s probably doctored because, in the real screens, pixels/phosphors get blasted sequentially from side to side and top to bottom.

And pictures catch the middle of the process and show it with color differences and lines. Like the bar in the middle of this screen that is slightly lighter:

Itā€™s a different experience. With flat screens you look squarely ā€œatā€ them ā€” with the big box screens, you were technically looking through and into them. The colors and contrasts were also a bit different.

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Just checked and I thought I saw another effect (the ā€œgray bandsā€ that bend) but itā€™s probably the window being reflected.

But yeah it is a movieā€¦ainā€™t not way to get the old ebay homescreen either so.

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oh, Iā€™ve found ways of doing similar things lol

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Thereā€™s actually someone who set up a proxy server that people can connect old web browsers to and it will pull old web pages from the internet archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20060430191113/http://www.ebay.com/

The archive is a treasure trove. I had made a personal archive of different things from there. There were interesting forums that had psionic skill development information and other neat things, some of the old ExtremeMinds stuff and some of the older iterations of the Sapien and Enlightened states sites are in my archive now too.

But there are also easier things available that can be used to indulge in nostalgia. Iā€™ve been having fun checking out a frontend for an older edition of youtube while using my windows XP virtual machine. It can be used on newer machines, though.

https://yt2009.giabs.ovh/

Too bad it seems like more people have found out about it. When I just learned about it, it had decent speed. It seems like not much loads now. ā€¦ or maybe google IP blocked it. They do that to anything that circumvents their corporate spyware.

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Chiefs W.

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I always set an intention, as with all intercessions, blessings, grace, and favors fields.

I am pretty sure it says ā€œclear goal with a real experienceā€.

You do you.

No right or wrong way.

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psipog? I used that and a few others I forgot but they were pretty related. Along with Veritas Academy which may even still be up. I didnā€™t check in a whileā€¦

Looks cool. Yep it doesnā€™t load xDā€¦but man does it feel clean instead of things vying for your attention. Itā€™s better than my youtube-customization extension.

Do you have any use for this or is it for nostalgia? xD

Not the extension or ublock origins. That was an epic final boss battle when they pushed premium and tried to ban ad-blockers xD

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image

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That was one of them. I was doing manual web crawling looking through old links in the archive. I found a bunch of old sites for Dale Power. There were a bunch of other neat things. I also found this Gem:

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I guess, those who know, know lol

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Pretty much only nostalgiaā€¦ I have old versions of MS office on there. I like the interface better, but I donā€™t really use it for anything.

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Are you ready?

Ooh, I know you see me standinā€™ here
Do I look good, my dear?
Do I look good today? (Today, today)
Ooh, ooh, ooh, Iā€™m just another kinda girl
And you wanna see my world
So come and run away
Yeah, yeah

If you wanna play
Come and play today
Letā€™s just get away, yeah
I will make you see
All of the things that you can be
Believe in yourself
Come follow me
Yeah, yeah, yeah

You have just gotta let it loose
And do what you choose to do
Donā€™t walk away
Yeah, yeah

If you wanna play
Come and play today
Letā€™s just get away, yeah
I will make you see
All of the things that you can be
Believe in yourself, come follow me
Yeah, yeah, yeah

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heart
so warmā€¦

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@anon67686978 Noesis?

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@Bored Freit? :smirk:

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You didnā€™t know from the start?

Disappoint

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